External summary
As of February 2024, at least 5.5 million people in Haiti required humanitarian assistance. Food, WASH and healthcare are among the most urgent needs. Humanitarian needs persist nationwide because of the combined effects of insecurity, climate hazards and poor socioeconomic conditions (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2024). As of September 2024, nearly 703,000 people had been displaced internally mainly due to intensified gang violence, particularly in Port-au-Prince (UN International Organization for Migration, n.d.). In 2024 alone, the Dominican Republic returned over 150,000 Haitians (97% of all returnees) and announced plans to send back 10,000 more weekly (UN International Organization of Migration, n.d.).
The goal of World Vision’s Haiti Multi-Country Response (MCR) has been to deliver critical humanitarian assistance to vulnerable Haitian children and their families, as well as Dominican hosting community, affected by the multi-factor crisis worsened by the violence spikes in Haiti. The response has focused on food and cash assistance, health and nutrition, protection, mental health and psychosocial support, WASH, education in emergencies and livelihoods.
This document represents the results of our real-time learning (RTL) into World Vision Haiti’s MCR, in a challenging and rapidly evolving, multi-country disaster context. The evaluation took place from October to November 2024 and assessed the response against a series of criteria: organisational efficiency, relevance, coordination and influence, as well as programme effectiveness. It is a culmination of 54 surveys with World Vision staff from across the organization and a three-day validation workshop with 30 World Vision colleagues.
Ultimately, the knowledge we gained from this RTL will help inform the MCR to be more organisationally efficient, programmatically relevant, responsive, coordinated and effective for the well-being of the most vulnerable in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.