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Guarnieri

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2022-09-26
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  1. “We will have to rebuild at least one warehouse and enhance our logistics capabilities. I also welcome the opportunity to speak today in order to highlight that the Haiti humanitarian operation is chronically underfunded, and the latest crisis makes the urgency of the Council’s support all the more vital to reverse that negative trend. The humanitarian response plan is funded at just 22 per cent. More funding is needed for humanitarian affairs and more investment is needed to support Haitians with livelihoods and basic services. The extent of the violence, the depth of the needs and the risks to the population and to those of us who are trying to help them in Haiti are severe. Haiti needs help now and we are counting on the Council’s attention and support.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source

  2. “I also need to mention that the delivery of logistics services, including through the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), managed by WFP, and a ship service that we put in place to circumvent gang-controlled areas, is becoming more crucial. Those services are underfunded and need urgent support, owing to the role of UNHAS in evacuating hundreds of United Nations and staff of non-governmental organizations out of tricky situations in the field and in delivering supplies. As we plan for the months ahead, we already know that operating in Haiti will come at a sharp increase in cost. We in the WFP, along with other United Nations agencies and non-governmental-organization partners, have no choice but to beef up our security posture in the country and put in place additional measures to protect food stocks and staff.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source

  3. “We therefore look forward to increased support from the States Members of the United Nations to further facilitate humanitarian access and ensure the protection of humanitarian actors, personnel and assets. We are doing our part. We are working hard to get access and already achieved a breakthrough earlier this summer in Cité Soleil, where humanitarian access was facilitated. We have many concerns for the people we serve, and we are worried that a bad situation will only get worse as food prices go up further and food stocks run out. We are also projecting an active hurricane season, which would be nothing short of a catastrophe for this battered population.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source

  4. “Other United Nations agencies and non-governmental organizations also saw their offices and warehouses looted, and we estimate that at least $6 million worth of relief supplies were lost in the attacks, which could have benefited more than 410,000 people in need. The lootings are having a negative impact on disaster preparedness, right at the peak of the hurricane season. Despite those difficult conditions, WFP and other actors remain in Haiti and intend to stay and deliver. Over the weekend, we started supporting Haitians again, albeit at a limited scale. To put it simply, we are not in a position to support all of those who need our help, owing to the general lawlessness and operational environment.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source

  5. “The gangs that are strangling the capital are blocking access to fuel supplies and key logistics hubs, including ports and airports, as well as road access to other departments. Protesters have ransacked and looted humanitarian warehouses throughout the country, depleting stocks that were pre-positioned for disasters and intended for vulnerable people. And as Ms. La Lime said, over the course of one week the WFP and Haiti lost one third of our food stocks, as two of our four warehouses were deliberately targeted, looted and pillaged. Those warehouses contained well over 2,000 metric tons of food, which could have supported more than 218,000 of the most vulnerable women, men, girls and boys.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source

  6. “And all of that has been caused by the gangs, who have a stranglehold on the main arteries in and out of the capital city. That is the reality that Haitians have been enduring on a daily basis for months. Last week, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and WFP issued our Hunger Hotspots report, in which Haiti is featured. We expect food security to further deteriorate this year and surpass the record high of 4.5 million people estimated to face crisis levels of food insecurity or worse, including 1.3 million people in need of emergency assistance. Insecurity makes it very difficult and dangerous to implement humanitarian programmes, let alone development, in the country.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source

  7. “Instead of the progress we were hoping for and dreaming of, today the situation in Haiti has sadly reached new levels of desperation. In less than one year, the price of the basic food basket has increased by 52 per cent. The price of petrol has doubled. Inflation stands at 31 per cent, the highest it has been in recent years, and is expected to rise further. The diesel needed to run the power supply, food and basic supplies can no longer enter the country through the port, and water supplies are running desperately low. The school- feeding programme is on hold because it is not safe for children to go to school. The economic and political hub that is Port-au-Prince has effectively been cut off from the rest of the country.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source

  8. “Tens of thousands of people were engaged in work to rehabilitate and construct rural assets that supported food production and to clear and drain canals in urban areas that caused flooding during the cyclone season. With support from the World Bank, WFP was helping the Government to develop a national social protection policy and taking measures to support its implementation and make it responsive to shocks and inclusive of the most vulnerable people. There were plans for Government to take over the provision of cash transfers completely by 2024, and emergency food assistance was reaching more than 450,000 people around the country, with stocks pre-positioned to support a scale-up in the event of hurricanes and other disasters.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source

  9. “Ms. Guarnieri: I visited Haiti several months ago, and at the time I was struck by the increasing needs and the difficulties that the World Food Programme (WFP) team and our partners were having in moving goods in and out of the capital city. We were struggling to meet the needs of the population, one in every two of whom are food-insecure. But there were important rays of hope. School meals were reaching more than 350,000 children, one third of whom were fed with food locally grown by smallholder farmers. And we were scaling up further as part of Government efforts to ensure that all Haitian children benefit from nutritious meals in school.”

    2022-09-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9136 (2022) · source