HAITI Humanitarian Snapshot 31 May 2019

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The year 2018 in Haiti was marked by a particularly unstable and fragile economic, politicalCUBA and social context. 74% compared to 2017. The change in legislation towards foreigners in the Dominican Republic has resulted in significant The drought, which affected spring and summer cropping seasons in several departments of the country in population movements. During the year 2018, 132,000 Haitians in an irregular situation were repatriated or expelled at the 2018, the rise in staple food prices, inflation and the depreciation of the gourde, severely affected the border according to DGM3. Amongst the migrants registered in the CRF4, 42% were women, 34% were children, 66% had no households’ resilience capacities. According to the IPC1 analysis conducted in december 2018, 2.3 million identity documents and 69% have crossed the border via smugglers. In October 2018, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nord, people were in a situation of acute food insecurity between october 2018 and february 2019. Since the Nord-Ouest and Artibonite departments, killing 18 people and causing a psychological shock to the affected population. The beginning of the cholera epidemic in October 2010, significant progress has been made. A total of 3,786 suspect earthquake caused significant damage to schools, public infrastructure and homes. Medium-term assistance remains to be cases and 41 deaths were reported by the MSPP2 in 2018, which represents a respective decrease of 72% and provided to the nearly 157,000 people that have been affected by the earthquake. FOOD SECURITY CHOLERA EPIDEMIC BINATIONAL MIGRATION SITUATION EARTHQUAKE

PEOPLE IN ACUTE FOOD SUSPECTED CHOLERA CASES PEOPLE DEPORTED OR TURNED BACK AT THE PEOPLE AFFECTED BY INSECURITY (1JAN TO 31 MARCH 2019) BORDER OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC THE EARTHQUAKE OF 2.6M 260 33K (JAN - APR 2019) 157K 6 OCTOBER 2018 M= million K= thousand K= thousand

Magnitude: 5.9 Location: 20.041N 72.975W Depth: 14.3KM Date: 6 Oct 2018 IPC: Acute Food NORD-OUEST NORD-OUEST Time: 20:12 EST NORD-OUEST Insecurity Phase NORD OUEST 3 NORDNord NORD 1 NORD (Mar 19 - June 19) NORD 4 NORD-EST None or Minimal Registered NORD-EST Ouanaminthe Stressed cholera cases Ofﬁcial entry points Crisis 150 from Dom. Rep. Departments affected ARTIBONITEARTIBONITE ARTIBONITE Emergency 1 153 Famine CENTRE ARTIBONITE CENTRE Unofﬁcial entry points Not analyzed 76 from Dom. Rep. CENTRE Port-au-Prince Belladere Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince GRANDE ANSE OUEST GRAND’ANSE NIPPES OUEST GRAND’ANSE 19 GRAND’ANSE NIPPES NIPPES OUEST Ganthier SUD SUD EST (Malpasse) SUD-EST 1 SUD SUD 3 SUD-EST Anse-à-Pitres

PEOPLE IN FOOD INSECURITY BY DEPARTMENT TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS

ARTIBONITE 282 670 3 29 2018 For 2018, it was estimated that 132,000 Haitians were 18 714 2,350 DEATHS POSITIVE CASES repatriated or expelled from Dominican Republic. DEATHS INJURED DISPLACED CENTRE 283 040 In March 2018, there was a spike in the number of GRAND’ANSE 197 360 returned persons as a result of the alleged murder of a Dominican couple by a Haitian. PEOPLE AFFECTED IN THE DEPARTMENTS HIT BY THE EARTHQUAKE NIPPES 108 458 CHOLERA CASES 2017 In 2017, 35,000 Haitians were deported from the NORD 319 256 800 Domincan Republic NORD-OUEST 11,600 NORD-EST 150 415 600 2015 - Between June 2015 and Oct. 2017, 230,299 returnees 2017 were voluntarily registered by IOM at the border. NORD-OUEST 215 720 400 2015 End of registration to the PNRE5 deadline for Law ARTIBONITE 71,500 * OUEST 615 090 200 169-14 . Ruling 168-13 was adopted. It stipulates SUD 203 816 that only individuals born in the country to Dominican 0 2013 NORD 74,000 Jan’18 Feb’18 Mar’18 Apr’18 May’18 June’18 Dec’18.....Mar’18 nationals or legal residents are considered to have SUD-EST 249 465 Dominican nationality.

1 Integrated Food Security Phase Classification 2Ministry of Public Health and Population 3Directorate-General for Migration 4 Border resources center 5 National Plan for the Regularization of Foreigners The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. * Law establishing the status of persons born on Dominican territory irregularly registered in the civil register and on naturalization Update date: 21 May 2019 Sources: CNSA, WFP, MSPP, PAHO/WHO, UNICEF, DGM, IOM, DPC Feedback: [email protected] www.reliefweb.int http://haiti.humanitarianreponse.info