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Our new funding of $56.5M announced today will help partners meet the urgent humanitarian needs of more than 868,000 people across Haiti by distributing medical supplies and medicines, including personal protective equipment for health care workers and antibiotics, beds, and rehydration fluids for cholera patients; improving access to safe water; and bolstering health facility operations, including cholera treatment centers – critical to slowing the spread of this dangerous disease.

Today, USAID Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman announced the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), is providing an additional $56.5 million for the people of Haiti in response to the country’s humanitarian crisis and cholera epidemic. Haiti’s alarming levels of gang violence, including attacks on civilians, have prevented people from accessing critical food, fuel, safe drinking water, and other basic supplies.

Yesterday, at an event on the sidelines of the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, USAID Administrator Samantha Power announced approximately $331 million in humanitarian and long-term development assistance to address food security and resilience in the region.

Today, the U.S. government announced its intent to partner with five Coastal West African countries (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, and Togo) in the context of the ten-year U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability. 

The U.S. government is moving forward in the spirit of partnership with four countries and a regional grouping of countries to implement the ten-year U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stability.  

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced it provided nearly $2.9 million in FY 2021 funding to support two projects that leverage the unique role of diaspora communities in responding and building resilience to the world's largest humanitarian crises.

The United States remains committed to supporting the people of Haiti as the country's largest humanitarian donor. In the immediate humanitarian response to the August 14th earthquake, USAID served as the lead agency in the U.S. government response to the earthquake, deploying funds of close to $70 million and also providing first responders to address the urgent needs of earthquake-affected populations.

Today at the International Event for the Financing of the Reconstruction of the Southern Peninsula of Haiti, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman announced that USAID will provide an additional $50 million in assistance in Haiti to build resilience, increase food security, and bolster the nutrition status of Haiti's most vulnerable people through a new 5-year agreement.