Annual Country Report 2022: Haiti. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Annual Country Report 2022: Haiti. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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Throughout 2022, a combination of socio-political instability, insecurity, economic downturn and unprecedented global food crisis further deteriorated the humanitarian situation. Haiti is among the five countries with the "worst deterioration in peacefulness" in 2022. In fact, as of 26 September 2022, at least 1.5 million people were directly impacted by the escalating social unrest. This, coupled with a new cholera outbreak that quickly spread in the most deprived areas, triggered the declaration of a Corporate Scale-Up Emergency on 27 October. As insecurity and armed group violence increased, food security worsened. According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) covering September 2022 to February 2023, nearly half of the population was in Phase 3+ (crisis) at the close of 2022, out of which 19,200 were in Phase 5 (catastrophic) in Cité Soleil. In this context, during 2022, WFP ramped up its assistance to Haitians and support to humanitarian organizations to respond to the dire situation. Across WFP’s operations, the number of people reached surged from 1.3 million in 2021 to 1.6 million, distributing a total of 10,233 mt of food and USD 28.2 million of cash-based transfers (CBT). Overall, WFP reached 109,048 persons with disabilities (54 percent women; 46 percent men) countrywide. Through its emergency response, WFP focused on staying and delivering life-saving assistance reaching 777,019 people with 5,507 mt of food and USD 22 million in CBT. To support the operations, WFP created an access unit to negotiate access to populations affected by violence and to safeguard logistics routes. Through the school feeding programme, WFP served daily school meals to 358,000 students in 1,700 schools, of which 105,460 received hot meals as part of the home-grown school feeding programme, which connects schools to local markets and producers. In addition, the school rehabilitation component successfully continued throughout the year. WFP also increased vulnerable communities' resilience to shocks and unexpected onset catastrophes by developing, restoring and upgrading community assets. WFP supported 112,950 people in the rehabilitation of natural resources, the creation of rural assets and the diversification of livelihood strategies.

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