Haiti Humanitarian Fund

The Haiti Humanitarian Fund is part of the Latin America and Caribbean Humanitarian Fund (LAC HF), recently established by the Emergency Relief Coordinator and managed by OCHA. The Fund seeks to respond to the most urgent humanitarian needs, particularly serving the most vulnerable people in need of humanitarian assistance and those in hard-to-reach areas. 

The strategic use of the Fund will enable support for sustainable solutions linked to humanitarian needs, especially in areas exposed to climate-related hazards or receiving new population flows from the capital city of Port-au-Prince, as well as support for collective anticipatory actions related to disasters, validated by the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and complementing other funding. 

Other key programming areas include accountability to affected people, participation in programming, access and humanitarian negotiation, protection mainstreaming, proactive protection from sexual exploitation and abuse, cash transfers, gender equality, gender-based violence response and inclusion of specific needs of children, persons with disabilities, and other vulnerable or minority groups, including LGBTQIA+ persons. The Fund will also encourage coordination and collaboration with other financing sources to ensure complementarity and coherence through a triple nexus approach and inter-pillar cooperation.

The Fund will strengthen coordination among actors and mechanisms both in Port-Au-Prince and throughout the country, ensuring that needs-based priorities are identified in coordination with affected communities, supporting the localization agenda and durable solutions The Fund will use a multi-sectoral and coordinated area-based approach to address the most urgent needs. This includes rapid and flexible responses to emergencies, improved access to assistance (both for those in need and to affected people for humanitarians) and adaptation of responses based on community needs.  

Programming priorities, backed by the Humanitarian Coordinator´s Vision Strategy for the Fund and the Fund Localization Note, push for community consultation and participation in project design and implementation, ensuring projects meet community expressed needs. Emphasis is on area-based programming for sustainable solutions, integrated multisectoral action to maximize impact and collaborative programming through consortia, joint programs or innovative processes.

How to contribute

OCHA encourages donors to contribute to the Fund, highlighting its added value compared to other financing mechanisms, particularly in advancing the localization agenda. The Fund aims to mobilize aid beyond traditional donors to attract new financing for Haiti, including Member States from the LAC Region, the private sector, and the Haitian diaspora.

• Governments, corporations and foundations wishing to contribute to the Haiti Humanitarian Fund can directly contact ocha.donor.relations@un.org
• Individuals can donate online via UN Crisis Relief/Haiti Humanitarian Fund