Operations

Several hundred thousand people need immediate humanitarian assistance in Haiti, which is suffering from severe flooding after being hit by a series of four tropical storms / hurricanes in less than a month.

The humanitarian agencies operating in the affected areas trying to deliver life-saving relief aid are not able to reach the affected population due to the high water level and the destruction of the infrastructure.

There is an urgent need to augment the logistics capacity in order to meet the humanitarian needs.

Through this special operation WFP will, in its capacity as Logistics Cluster lead, and on behalf of the humanitarian community, support the relief efforts of the Haitian authorities.

The special operation provides for:

• the deployment of an all terrain 6x6 truck fleet to transport food and non-food items to the final delivery points;
• temporary inter-agency storage through the deployment of mobile storage units;
• ocean and river transport through the contracting of a landing craft and the deployment of a light weight boat fleet;
• coordination of and information management for the logistics response.

This special operation will have a duration of 16 months at a total estimated cost of US$ 10,821,418.

Countries

Haiti

WFP has been present in Haiti since 1969. At the end of 2008, Haiti ranked 148th of 179 countries on the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index; 76 percent of Haitians live on less than US$2 per day and 56 percent on less than US$1 per day. Haiti remains a food deficit country....