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43%of people are facing food insecurity324disasters in 60 years 7.1 million population

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The English and Dutch-speaking Caribbean comprises several Small Island Developing States that face similar challenges in managing economic, financial, geographic and climate-related impacts that affect the food and nutrition security of the most vulnerable, particularly in crises. These countries and territories are also exposed to hazards such as droughts, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, storms and volcanic eruptions.

Hurricane Melissa left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean in late October and early November 2025, affecting almost 6 million people across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica.

The World Food Programme (WFP) carried out emergency food distributions for the worst-affected families. WFP also supported millions of people through cash transfers and early warnings ahead of the storm, which helped protect lives and livelihoods.

The high cost of living and the lingering impact of COVID-19 are driving food insecurity in the region. High-energy prices are further exacerbating the food-price crisis and affecting the affordability and consumption of food, especially for the poorest families.


Climate-related disasters continue to increase in frequency and intensity, reversing significant development gains, paralysing national response capacity, and threatening progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. While there is a foundation of regional and national institutions to address the needs of vulnerable people, there is a need improve data access and analysis, coordination and visualization, for improved planning and decision making.

Furthermore, Caribbean states face some of the highest rates debt in the world. Government debts average 90.1 percent of GDP since 2020, placing the region significantly above the World Bank’s threshold for developing countries. Caribbean governments are advocating for more innovative climate financing and access to resources, to increase climate resilience.

WFP Caribbean works with national, regional and international partners to strengthen resilience to the climate crisis, and to other risks. WFP adopts a systems-focused approach as part of its capacity-strengthening efforts, through research and advocacy, digitalization, human-resource development, South-South Cooperation, and by investing in critical infrastructure and assets. WFP works with partners to provide direct assistance to vulnerable people impacted by shocks, when events surpass national and regional capacities.

These investments place the most vulnerable people at the centre of efforts to minimize the combined impacts of climate, economic and other shocks. WFP Caribbean’s 2022-2026 Multi-Country Strategic Plan supports 22 countries and territories across the English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean through the provision of expertise in vulnerability analysis and mapping; end-to-end supply-chain management; shock-responsive social protection; food-systems strengthening, and climate-risk financing.

Countries covered by the WFP Caribbean Multi-Country Office include Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas (the), Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Curaçao, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands.


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WFP Caribbean's emergency preparedness and response operations













What the World Food Programme is doing in the Caribbean



Vulnerability analysis and mapping


WFP Caribbean supports vulnerability and risk analysis, assessments and monitoring of cash programmes, and the introduction of innovations such as digital solutions – including remote surveying – to increase accountability and service delivery, and to inform decision-making. WFP works with partners in the Caribbean to strengthen food security analysis, early-warning systems and mapping capacities. This includes support to monitoring, analysis and forecasting of hazards for early action, and development of contingency plans. WFP supports governments in developing mechanisms tailored to the national context, to monitor and identify vulnerable groups. These efforts inform governments’ procedures, policies and programmes.




End-to-end supply chain management


WFP Caribbean supports the Caribbean Disaster and Emergency Management Agency and its Participating States, to strengthen supply chain management systems in preparation for and during emergencies. WFP’s support also involves critical assets and infrastructure, like the Caribbean Regional Logistics Hub and Centre of Excellence, and contributes to developing the human resource capacity of disaster management professionals for the Caribbean. WFP Caribbean also provides technical assistance on logistic and pre-needs assessments, logistics management, and community relief efforts.




Social protection


WFP provides tailored technical assistance to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of national social protection systems, to support programmes that help meet the needs of vulnerable people during a crisis. Efforts include identifying and registering beneficiaries, and determining the appropriate level of assistance and the distribution mechanisms to deliver benefits, whether cash or in-kind.




Food systems strengthening


In conjunction with partners in the region, WFP provides strategic advice, and technical and operational support to strengthen food systems’ resilience through food security analysis. We further support increased agricultural production and market access for local and regional produce. WFP Caribbean supports governments with developing mechanisms to link local production to institutional markets, such as school meals and campaigns to create demand for locally produced food. WFP is working with social assistance beneficiaries through livelihood-enhancement programmes, to make them a more active part of both the supply and demand side of local and regional agricultural production.




Disaster Risk Financing and Anticipatory Action


WFP’s risk-finance strategy involves working with governments to identify suitable disaster-risk-financing options, and strengthen the connection between social protection systems and finance instruments. WFP is working with Caribbean governments to advance new initiatives to strengthen disaster-risk-financing mechanisms, to explore forecast-based financing options for anticipatory action, and to ensure that payouts can be channelled through social protection systems for a more rapid response to shocks.







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Annual Country Reports - The Caribbean
27 March 2025






Beryl Relief Income Support Programme (BRISP) in Shock – Responsive Social Protection (SRSP)
24 July 2026






Integrating Anticipatory Action for Hurricanes into Social Protection Systems
30 December 2025






Social Protection Pathways to Nutrition
26 November 2025






Hurricane Beryl – Jamaica Cash Assistance Report (August 2025)
2 September 2025






Maximizing Digital Payments for Social Protection in Belize
1 August 2025






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In focus








Hurricane Melissa: WFP at hand as Jamaica responds to its ‘worst storm ever’

Story | 28 October 2025









Hurricane Beryl one year on: A wake-up call for disaster preparedness in the Caribbean

Story | 30 June 2025









Haiti on the brink: WFP scales up as violence fuels displacement and hunger

Story | 2 December 2024









The Backstory: The Caribbean’s Captain Harris - from Pirates’ icon to Beryl survivor

Story | 5 November 2024









Partners of the Caribbean: WFP, collective action and the response to Hurricane Beryl

Story | 20 August 2024









Climate emergency: WFP stands ready as Hurricane Beryl wreaks havoc across the Caribbean

Story | 5 July 2024





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Caribbean Community (CARICOM)Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA)Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF)ECHOGermany

Government of CanadaIndian-UN Development Partnership FundItalian Agency for Development CooperationJapanJoint SDG FundMexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID)Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)Republic of KoreaSpanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID)The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe Government of BarbadosUKAID/FCDOUN Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF)United States
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Operations in The Caribbean





Caribbean multi-country strategic plan (2022–2026)

XC02 - Country Strategic Plan (CSP)





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