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

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

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2019.

English

51 p.

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From July to December 2019, WFP supported the Government of Haiti via humanitarian interventions and sustainable solutions to hunger and malnutrition through ten activities. These interventions were mostly integrated into broader social safety nets programmes and contributed to long-term food security. Given the country's frequent exposure to natural hazards, disaster management and preparedness is a priority for WFP's intervention. The Cash-Based Transfer Working Group (CBTWG) led by WFP was instrumental in the promotion and improvement of cash delivery preparedness across the humanitarian actors as well as in the harmonization of interventions. Based on market and food security assessments and in response to increasing levels of food insecurity in rural areas, WFP provided emergency food assistance through cash-based transfers in highly food-insecure areas. WFP strengthened the link between its school feeding programme and local markets and producers. Due to the escalating insecure environment, most of the schools nationwide were closed between September and December 2019. Nevertheless, WFP successfully assisted around 78 percent of the functioning schools with a daily hot meal, reaching over 143,500 children. In addition, for the school year 2019-2020, WFP further scaled up the target of its Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF), from 30,000 to 46,000 beneficiaries and started to incorporate innovative approaches on communication and gender. WFP also worked with communities identified using the Three-Pronged Approach (3PA), which allows better ownership and more efficient design of resilience-building activities, like creating assets dedicated to irrigation and water management. In addition, WFP implemented Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities to build resilience to future shocks. Almost 16,500 people benefited from these activities.

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