Haiti is seeing growing rates of hunger and malnutrition amid an unprecedented descent into violence and growing insecurity.
Weeks of gang violence through all corridors of Haiti since Feb. 29, 2024, has particularly affected communities in and around the capital, Port-au-Prince. Heightened insecurity has also further compromised the humanitarian space and forced some organizations to operate under precarious security conditions.
Given the heightened violence and emergency, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has been releasing situation reports in collaboration with humanitarian partners every two days.
Roughly 5.5 million people in Haiti, about half the population, were already in desperate need of humanitarian aid. The 2024 Humanitarian Response Plan released in late February requires $674 million to reach 3.6 million people and currently stands at just 6.5% funded. The violence and insecurity will only exacerbate pre-existing needs and funding.
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