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Current Requirements (US$)$880.3 million
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Current People Hyper Prioritized3.3 million
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Current Hyper Prioritized Requirements$680.4 million
GHO estimates at launch (8 December 2025)
Crisis overview
Haiti’s humanitarian crisis is worsening at an alarming pace, leading to an increase in the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance. Persistent political instability has enabled armed groups to further entrench and expand their control over the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince, the departments of Ouest, Artibonite, and Centre. Widespread armed violence is compounded by Haiti's high vulnerability to natural disasters. Hurricane Melissa in October 2025 killed at least 43 people, damaged homes as well as critical infrastructure, and severely disrupted livelihoods. The resurgence of cholera since late 2022 has compounded public health risks, particularly in areas with limited access to clean water and sanitation. In 2026, 6.4 million people need humanitarian assistance, more than half the population, of whom 3.6 million will be prioritized to receive humanitarian assistance.
The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haiti has doubled from 700,000 people to 1.4 million people displaced between September 2024 and October 2025. IDPs now account for approximately 12 per cent of the country’s population. Widespread insecurity across the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince and its growing reach into regional zones is stifling Haiti’s economy and people’s access to food. Nearly 5.7 million people in Haiti are facing severe food insecurity — an increase from 5.4 million during the same period last year, while some 1.9 million people are facing emergency levels of acute food insecurity.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A woman at the displacement site located in the metropolitan area.
OCHA/Herold JosephGender-based violence remains pervasive. Between January and September 2025, 7,472 incidents of gender-based violence (GBV) were reported— over half of them (56 per cent) were sexual violence. Worse still, 65 per cent of these were collective rapes. Women and girls continue to bear the brunt of this crisis: 76 per cent of the victims were women; 14 per cent were girls under the age of 18. Displaced people are disproportionately affected.
Widespread insecurity has also severely disrupted healthcare across Haiti, forcing the closure of numerous facilities, including maternity wards and operating rooms, and limiting access to emergency obstetric and neonatal care. Nationally, only 10 per cent of health facilities with inpatient capacity remain fully operational. In the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, this figure increases to just 11 per cent despite it being the most populous part of the country.
Since the beginning of the year, over 225,000 Haitians have been deported back to Haiti, 98 per cent of them from neighboring Dominican Republic. Deportations are overwhelming response capacities, with many deportees arriving with no family ties, resources, documents or support networks.
Response priorities and financial requirements for 2026
The Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) boundaries have been established by assessing acute needs linked to armed violence, forced displacement, epidemics, and natural disasters. Targeted populations have borne the greatest impact of these shocks, and include IDPs and host populations, populations living in areas controlled or influenced by armed groups, deported migrants, populations living in cholera and other epidemic hotspots, and those particularly exposed to natural disasters.
Priority activities include providing food assistance to 2.5 million people with a combination of emergency and resilience activities to prevent, mitigate and strengthen the capacity of vulnerable populations to withstand shocks, while providing more sustainable solutions to prolonged food insecurity.
In the context of mass displacement, strengthening site management by creating or reinforcing committees that include government, NGOs, and community representatives is crucial. These committees will receive training on humanitarian principles, site management, protection, including protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA), and accountability, and will be equipped for rapid reporting. The strategy also focuses on reducing protection risks for vulnerable groups through improved coordination, conflict prevention with host communities, and establishing an inclusive complaints and protection system.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
University Hospital La Paix (HUP) is the only public hospital in the capital that still provides advanced case management. It remains a lifeline for more than two million people across the metropolitan area of the capital.
OCHA/Marvens CompèreFor survivors of sexual violence, medical care and clinical management will be strengthened, and access to temporary shelter improved. In addition to maintaining a mechanism for monitoring and reporting protection risks, the capacity of grassroots community organizations on community protection and violence prevention will be reinforced.
Humanitarian partners in Haiti are working to re-center collective efforts in favor of a response that is more coherent, less bureaucratic, and closer to the Haitian people. Localization is at the center of this. In 2024, the pooled fund for Latin America and the Caribbean has already allocated $2 million directly to national NGOs. In 2025, national NGOs received close to 80% of the US$4 million pooled fund allocation, including 59 per cent in direct financing.
Aid workers operate under extraordinary pressure, facing threats including violence, extortion, and kidnapping, which significantly hampers the effective delivery of assistance. The humanitarian operating environment in Haiti is significantly challenged due to the proliferation of state, quasi-state, and non-state actors and the absence of a coherent command-and-control structure. Meanwhile, the introduction of new security dynamics—such as the use of armed drones and the deployment of foreign private military companies (PMCs) and the deployment of the United Nations Security Council-mandated Gang Suppression Force (GSF)—added additional complexities.
Haiti
2025 in review: Response highlights and consequences of inaction
Response highlights
Food
More than 1.8 million people received emergency food assistance by modality (disaggregated by sex, age, and disability), including displaced or returned individuals.
Water
Close to 200,000 people gained access to a sufficient quantity of safe drinking water for survival (drinking, domestic needs, etc.) and dignity.
Shelter
800,000 people received emergency shelter kits.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Phanie, displaced by armed violence, trains in leathercraft at the Organization of Hearts for Change for Impoverished Children of Haiti (OCCED’H), working toward the dream of one day opening her own workshop.
OCHA/Marvens CompereConsequences of funding cuts
Gender-based violence
A $13.5 million funding gap endangers lifesaving services for 780,000 survivors and those at risk, including access to medical care, psychosocial support, and legal aid. Only one provider offers 24/7 comprehensive care in Port-au-Prince for survivors, with 7,472 GBV cases reported across Haiti between January and September 2025, an average of 27 cases per day.
IDP site management
As of October 2025, only 91 IDP sites out of a total of 238 sites (38 per cent) have a site manager. Without additional funding, more than 110,000 displaced people are left without structured management or coordination of essential services, increasing the risk of aid misuse or diversion and fueling secondary displacement.
Food insecurity
With more than half of the population—one in two Haitians—unable to meet their basic food needs without external assistance, not responding to worsening hunger will expose millions of people to lasting harm, including chronic malnutrition and deterioration of mental and physical health.
Nutrition
Haiti’s nutrition crisis is at a tipping point. With only 16 per cent of needed funding received, one in three children with acute malnutrition will remain untreated, placing over 187,000 children at heightened risk of preventable death and straining an already fragile health system.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
There are close to 200,000 people displaced in IDP sites in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince. On average, a site in the capital hosts 1,992 people compared to 132 in provinces, resulting in poor WASH conditions and promiscuity and heightened protection risks.
OCHA/Marvens CompèreActing before hurricane Melissa hits
When forecasts warned that Melissa, a category 5 hurricane, could hit Haiti’s southern departments in the next five days, humanitarian actors didn’t wait for the storm to make landfall—they moved fast. On 21 October, the OCHA-led CERF Anticipatory Action Framework was activated, unlocking $4 million for rapid preparedness. By 22 October, UN agencies were already deploying resources. Communities were mobilized, and emergency stocks were in place. Hundreds of evacuation centers were opened, providing shelter to over 15,000 people. Food, water, hygiene kits, medication, and shelter materials were also prepositioned in high-risk areas, rapid response teams were deployed to departments most at risk, and early warning messages were disseminated to hundreds of thousands of households.