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Recently returned from a visit to Haiti, the World Food Program (WFP) Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau told reporters in New York that the country is experiencing the “worst” humanitarian situation since the 2010 earthquake. UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / HAITI WFP VISIT
TRT: 03:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED / WFP
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT WFP FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 25 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY / 21 APRIL 2024, CAP-HAITIEN, HAITI / FILE

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

25 APRIL 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, WFP Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau at the press room dais
3. Wide shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director, World Food Program (WFP):
“I was there over the weekend. And I can just confirm that the situation is dramatic; devastating crisis, massive humanitarian impact. The worst situation, humanitarian situation in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Half the population, some 5 million people, are acutely food insecure in the category three or 4 or 5, of IPC and more than a million in IPC four, which just speaks to how dramatic the humanitarian situation is.”
5. Wide shot, Skau at the dais
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director, World Food Program (WFP):
“Political and security support really need to be matched by a robust humanitarian response. These tracks cannot be exclusive. They need to move in parallel, and there won't be success on the political unless we also step up, our assistance, to the people. And I think what I saw on the ground is that this can be done, also at the centre of the crisis, in Port-au-Prince. But that we need also to do more on resilience and development elsewhere to really try to break this vicious cycle.”
7. Wide shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director, World Food Program (WFP):
“There's displacement. There is disruption, in the trade, and the economy, there is inflation. And so, the crisis is felt everywhere. But our response can be differentiated. What we need is an emergency response in Port-au-Prince, but we can continue to do other kinds of support, including development support in the rest of the country.”
9. Wide shot, Skau at the dais
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Carl Skau, Deputy Executive Director, World Food Program (WFP):
“We would have supplies, for the next six weeks, we've been able to do local procurement. Again, we are trying to do as much local procurement as possible, but I think those sources are also beginning to run out. And so, we would need to replenish also with shipments. So, we're hoping, having seen, that the international airport open at least for one flight, that that can be sustained and expanded, and also that there would be an opening of the port in Port-au-Prince.”
11. Wide shot, end of presser
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WFP - 21 APRIL 2024, QUARTIER MORIN, CAP-HAITIEN, HAITI

12. Various shots, WFP Deputy Executive Director (DED) Carl Skau, Regional Director (RD) Lola Castro and Country Director (CD) Jean-Martin Bauer visit a WFP resilience programme involving canal dredging

WFP - 21 APRIL 2024, DONDON, CAP-HAITIEN, HAITI

13. Various shots, Skau and delegation visit a smallholder farmers' cooperative - Coopérative Agricole et Caféière Gabart Le Vaillant de Dondon (CACGAVA)

WFP - 21 APRIL 2024, LIMONADE, CAP-HAITIEN, HAITI

14. Various shots, visit to Internally Displaced people (IDPs) living with host families and followed by a focus group discussion

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Recently returned from a visit to Haiti, the World Food Program (WFP) Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau told reporters today (25 Apr) in New York that the country is experiencing the “worst” humanitarian situation since the 2010 earthquake.

Skau said the situation was “dramatic” as “half the population, some 5 million people, are acutely food insecure in the category three or 4 or 5, of IPC and more than a million in IPC four.”

The WFP official stressed that “political and security support really need to be matched by a robust humanitarian response,” and added that “there won't be success on the political unless we also step up, our assistance, to the people.”

He said, “what I saw on the ground is that this can be done, also at the centre of the crisis, in Port-au-Prince. But that we need also to do more on resilience and development elsewhere to really try to break this vicious cycle.”

While most of the violence is concentrated in the capital, Skau said that in the rest of the country, “there's displacement. There is disruption, in the trade, and the economy, there is inflation. And so, the crisis is felt everywhere.”

He said, “our response can be differentiated. What we need is an emergency response in Port-au-Prince, but we can continue to do other kinds of support, including development support in the rest of the country.”

Asked about WFP’s supplies in Haiti, Skau said there was enough “for the next six weeks.”

He said, “we are trying to do as much local procurement as possible, but I think those sources are also beginning to run out. And so, we would need to replenish also with shipments. So, we're hoping, having seen, that the international airport open at least for one flight, that that can be sustained and expanded, and also that there would be an opening of the port in Port-au-Prince.”

During his visit to Haiti, Skau, together with Regional Director (RD) Lola Castro and Country Director (CD) Jean-Martin Bauer visited a WFP resilience programme involving canal dredging. They held discussions with smallholder farmers, local partners and community members which are now working on plantation activities.

WFP restored around 200 hectares of farmland through the rehabilitation and construction of canals, including support to water infiltration, allowing food production for the first time within that community.

Skau and delegation also visited a smallholder farmers' cooperative - Coopérative Agricole et Caféière Gabart Le Vaillant de Dondon (CACGAVA).

WFP is collaborating with CACGAVA for its Home-Grown School Feeding Programme since January 2023. 62 schools, totalling more than 17,000 students, receive products from CACGAVA in four communes in the Nord Department. The meal, which includes fresh vegetables, covers about 40 percent of children’s daily energy needs.

Since the beginning of the school year, more than 100 MT of cereals, pulses and fresh products were sourced from the cooperative. WFP provides training to CACGAVA to ensure products are meeting quality and control standards.

The transition to the HGSF programme in the Nord Department is expected to accelerate during the next school year with an additional 15,000 children to be covered by the project and absorbed exclusively by CACGAVA.

They also visited Internally Displaced people (IDPs) living with host families and held a focus group discussion.

In the North, family rations for 30 days are provided to targeted households. An initial 50 families (250 people) have already been assisted, and WFP already plans to assist another 1,363 households at the end of April in the municipalities of Cap-Haïtien, Quartier-Morin and Limonade.

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