WFP Haiti Country Brief August 2022

Operational Updates

• In August, WFP provided emergency assistance

(food or cash) to 58,715 people and distributed

USD 163,100 and 1,024 mt across three

departments (Artibonite, Center and North-West)

in six municipalities.

• The emergency assistance to respond to internally

displaced persons (IDPs) due to gang-violence

distributed 60,078 hot meals twice a day to 1,152

IDPs in Cité Soleil. WFP also distributed 0.5 mt of

Plumpy Doz, a ready-to-use supplementary food,

to 315 children to prevent malnutrition.

• WFP finished the construction of four classrooms in

two schools affected by the August 2021

earthquake in the Grand’Anse Department. In

addition, WFP is completing the construction of six

additional classrooms and three canteens before

the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

• WFP, together with its cooperating partners,

Government officials, smallholder farmers

associations and schools, conducted a workshop

on its home-grown school feeding programme.

Furthermore, WFP participated in a national

consultation forum on education launched on 3, 4

and 11 August in coordination with UNESCO,

UNICEF and the United Nations Resident

Coordinator’s Office, in preparation for the

‘Transforming Education Summit’ in New York, a

key initiative in response to a global crisis in

education.

• WFP established a technical collaboration with the

Economic and Social Assistance Fund to support

resilience activities in three departments (North-

West, Grand’Anse and Nippes) highly affected by

food insecurity and the earthquake in August

2021.

• United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS)

Haiti transported 1,021 passengers through 120

flights and 750 kg of cargo for 97 registered

organizations through an helicopter and a fixedwing

aircraft. In addition, for the first time, UNHAS

Haiti launched online check-in in Port-au-Prince.