The ICRC has been working in Haiti without interruption since 1994. In early 2004, when internal strife threatened to degenerate into armed conflict, it expanded its operations.

In violence-prone shantytowns the ICRC improves water and sanitation and ensures that people wounded as a result of violence have access to medical services.
Boosting the capacity of the Haitian Red Cross, especially in the areas of management, emergency-response preparedness of first-aid workers and dissemination of humanitarian principles, is one of the main activities of the ICRC in the country.

In civilian prisons and police stations the ICRC visits people deprived of their freedom for reasons related to the armed violence and political tensions.

Finally, among weapons bearers the ICRC promotes basic humanitarian principles such as the obligation to spare medical facilities, first-aid workers and others taking no part in violence.

Presence (2008): 60 staff, including 12 expatriates