HNRP 2024 OVERVIEW Chad continues to face a protracted and multidimensional humanitarian crisis, with 6 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, compared with 7.6 million in 2023. Inter-...
Chad
The humanitarian crisis in Chad is becoming more entrenched due to growing food insecurity and malnutrition, forced displacement, the effects of climate change, and political, socioeconomic, health and sanitation challenges. The combined effects of conflict, health emergencies and climate change affected an estimated 6.7 million people in 2022.
Chad is affected by insecurity resulting from the insurgency of armed groups, and it hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees due to the fragile security situation in neighbouring countries. A significant number of people are also affected by health emergencies marked by recurrent diseases such as measles, malaria, leishmaniasis and polio.
The country’s high illiteracy rate (78 per cent, including 89 per cent among women; the schooling rate is 49.1 per cent) contributes to increased intercommunal tensions.
Floods return every year in Chad, leading to people’s continued dependence on humanitarian assistance and livelihood support. The Government declared a food insecurity and malnutrition crisis in 2022 as result of the floods, and this crisis could deepen. The need to restore destroyed health centres and schools and ensure access to basic social services, including access to drinking water and sanitation, will remain a major challenge.
The presence of non-State armed groups in the Lake Chad basin and the military operations against these groups are likely to continue to force people out of their homes and drive refugees from neighbouring Nigeria’s border areas into Chad. Hundreds of thousands of people, including women and children, will need protection from violence and abuse.
The humanitarian response in Chad focuses on three main objectives: saving and preserving life and dignity; reducing vulnerability by building resilience and resistance to recurrent shocks; and protecting the most vulnerable people by focusing on children, girls, women, older people and people living with disabilities, and by strengthening accountability to affected people.
The response is promoting an emphasis on protection and gender, and it aims to strengthen community-based approaches and localization for sustainability.
Overview of the humanitarian response in Chad
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- Population
- 18.9M 2024
- People in Need
- 5.8M 2023
- IDPs
- 215.9K 2024
Chad + 6 more
Tchad : Aperçu des besoins humanitaires 2023 (mars 2023)
- People in Need
- 5.8M 2023
- People Targeted for Assistance
- 4.6M 2023
- Total requirements (USD)
- 1.1B 2024
- Total requirements (USD)
- 1.1B 2024
- Funding total (USD)
- 45.8M 2024
- Funding gap (USD)
- 1.1B 2024
- Funding coverage (%)
- 4.07 2024
Funding for OCHA Chad
- Total requirements (USD)
- 5.9M 2024
- Opening balance (USD)
- 0 2024
- Earmarked funding (USD)
- 145.7K 2024
- Total (USD)
- 145.7K 2024
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