The United Nations Humanitarian Country Team confirmed on June 24, 2025 that only 8.3 percent of the 2025 UN Humanitarian Response Plan for Haiti had been funded as of that date — a figure that reflected what advocates were describing as an international abandonment of Haiti at its moment of greatest need. The $908 million plan was designed to support 3.9 million of the most vulnerable Haitians; the fraction of funding received meant that the vast majority of planned programming could not proceed.
The funding gap placed Haiti in the extraordinary position of being the least funded major humanitarian appeal in the world — a distinction that reflected both the scale of competing global humanitarian demands and what critics argued was a systematic undervaluing of Haitian lives relative to crises in other parts of the world that attracted more international attention and political priority.
The WFP warned specifically that as Haiti entered the Atlantic hurricane season with only a fraction of needed resources, “a single storm could push millions into a humanitarian catastrophe.” Without pre-positioned food stocks, functional early warning systems, or adequate emergency response capacity, a major weather event could be devastating on a scale that would dwarf the impact on a country with even minimal resilience reserves.
Donor governments that had expressed alarm about Haiti’s crisis in Security Council meetings and ministerial statements were urged by humanitarian organizations to translate their stated concern into actual funding. The gap between the language of urgency used to describe Haiti and the resources actually provided to address it was, advocates argued, not a resource constraint but a political choice that had life-and-death consequences for millions of Haitians.