Humanitarian Response Plan

Humanitarian Response Plan

In 2019, more than 2.6 million people in Haiti will need assistance, including 1.3 million people targeted by the Humanitarian Response Plan. In a context of economic fragility and socio-political tensions, the successive shocks that have affected the country (including natural disasters, epidemics, population displacements), combined with structural weaknesses limiting access to basic services, have considerably increased the chronic vulnerability of the Haitian population and reduced its capacity for resilience.

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Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services. Haiti Landscape Analysis

Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services. Haiti Landscape Analysis

The Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES) project is funded through the Bureau for Food Security (BFS) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the Presidential Feed the Future Initiative, which strives to increase agricultural productivity and the incomes of both men and women in rural areas who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.

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Investing in people to fight poverty in Haiti. Reflection for evidence based policy making

Investing in people to fight poverty in Haiti. Reflection for evidence based policy making

Despite a decline in both monetary and multidimensional poverty rates since 2000, Haiti remains among the poorest and most unequal countries in Latin America. Two years after the 2010 earthquake, poverty was still high, particularly in rural areas. This report establishes that in 2012 more than one in two Haitians was poor, living on less than $ 2.41 a day, and one person in four was living below the national extreme poverty line of $1.23 a day.

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Agrarian Change and Peasant Prospects in Haiti

Agrarian Change and Peasant Prospects in Haiti

Haiti is one of the poorest and most severely hunger-stricken countries in the world (GHI 2013). Its contradictions are jarring: although Haiti has the largest relative agrarian population in the Western Hemisphere and relatively less land inequality than the rest of the region (Smucker et al. 2000; Wiens and Sobrado 1998), it is extremely food insecure. Almost 90 percent of the rural population lives below the poverty line (FAO 2014; IFAD 2014), and Haiti relies on food imports for 60 percent of national consumption (OXFAM 2010).

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Integrated Baseline Study. Ten Communes of the Southwest Coast, South Department, Haiti

Integrated Baseline Study. Ten Communes of the Southwest Coast, South Department, Haiti

This report provides an integrated multi-sector analysis for ten communes in the southwest coast of the South Department of Haiti, designed to serve as a baseline for a larger ongoing monitoring platform. The new data contained within this study is meant to inform decision-makers, guide policymakers and support ongoing project design.

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Vulnerability and Livelihoods before and after the Haiti Earthquake

Vulnerability and Livelihoods before and after the Haiti Earthquake

This paper examines the dynamics of poverty and vulnerability in Haiti using various data sets. As living conditions survey data are not comparable in this country, we first propose to use the three rounds of the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) available before the earthquake.

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Haiti Feed the Future: FY 2011–2015 Multi-Year Strategy

Haiti Feed the Future: FY 2011–2015 Multi-Year Strategy

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest countries in the world, with 55 percent of the population living below the poverty line of $1.25 per day. Agriculture is central to the Haitian economy, employing approximately 60 percent of the population and serving as the primary source of income in rural areas.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE URBAN BASELINE An Assessment of Food and Livelihood Security in Port-au-Prince

PORT-AU-PRINCE URBAN BASELINE An Assessment of Food and Livelihood Security in Port-au-Prince

The Port-au-Prince urban livelihoods baseline contains detailed, quantified information on the food, income and expenditure patterns of the urban poor. The assessment was conducted at a time of relative security and price stability from April to May 2009. Thus this baseline provides a picture of the urban poor as they were following the hurricanes, price rises and food riots of 2008. In conjunction with monitoring data, the baseline is a powerful tool that can be used for ongoing analysis of food and livelihood security in the slums of Port-au-Prince.

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Making Poor Haitians Count Poverty in Rural and Urban Haiti Based on the First Household Survey for Haiti

Making Poor Haitians Count Poverty in Rural and Urban Haiti Based on the First Household Survey for Haiti

This paper analyzes poverty in Haiti based on the first Living Conditions Survey of 7,186 households covering the whole country and representative at the regional level. Using a US$1 a day extreme poverty line, the analysis reveals that 49 percent of Haitian households live in absolute poverty.

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Poverty in Haiti

Poverty in Haiti

This short poverty profile for Haiti, compiled in the period of transition government following the fall of Aristide, but before the devastating September 2004 floods, presents what the authors describe as "stylised facts" on poverty in the country.

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