Key messages and call for actions

• UNFPA is calling on donors to fund protection services so that it can scale up its mobile services to all who need them. Activities that economically empower women are also key to reducing violence.
• Donors must urgently fill the funding gap in the Haiti Humanitarian Response Plan which requests 19.2 M in 2025 to respond to GBV issues. Only with sufficient funds can humanitarian organizations ensure displaced people have adequate shelter and sanitation facilities, with ample protection for vulnerable groups.
• Governments, diplomats, international community actors should advocate now for a clear end to the current violence and to stop retaliation against vulnerable communities in Haiti.
• Humanitarian agencies must put programs to protect and empower women and girls at the forefront of their emergency response. Women and girls came into this crisis at an extreme disadvantage. Without targeted efforts to meet their needs across the board (health, protection, education, basic goods, education), it is likely that most of the assistance will bypass them (or they will face exploitation to obtain it) and only further anchor them into a desperate situation.
• UNFPA is appealing for US$28 million to strengthen and expand access to life-saving reproductive health and gender-based violence services and support in Haiti in 2024. As of December 2024, only 19 per cent of the required funding has been mobilized. UNFPA is calling on donors to fund protection services so that it can scale up its mobile services to all who need them.