Annual Country Report 2021: Chad. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Annual Country Report 2021: Chad. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2021.

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89 p.

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In 2021, Chad continued to face serious challenges, including forced displacement, insecurity, political instability, climate shocks, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In total, WFP reached over 2.3 million people in 2021, of which 53 percent were women. Chad experienced several influxes of refugees and faced challenges in mobilizing resources, being forced to reprioritize some groups of beneficiaries over others. WFP reduced its ration by half for crisis response, and freezied the cash-based transfer programme for months. Consequently, WFP assisted 1.1 million crisis-affected people with unconditional food assistance, which is 23 percent less than in 2020, and their food consumption scores suffered significantly. 2021 also marked the worst lean season in nine years, with 1.8 million Chadians identified as severely food insecure. In response, WFP provided unconditional food assistance to 687,300 people, close to double the number assisted in 2020. WFP used an integrated approach to address children’s food needs. While WFP’s school feeding programme reached 218,600 children and school staff, the nutrition programmes supported the most vulnerable children and mothers with specialized nutritious foods. Nearly all the 296,900 children and women treated by WFP recovered from malnutrition. WFP reached 173,500 people through resilience building activities, including home and community asset creation and rehabilitation, and environmental conservation. WFP provided 100 villages with access to market and health services, by building 103 km of roads; enabled the restoration of 3,000 hectares of farming land, benefitting 50,000 people; and trained smallholder farmers on increasing their productivity and access to local markets. WFP also supported the economy through local procurement; in total, WFP procured 23,586 metric tons of food (USD 10.6 million) in Chad. Of this 4,109 metric tons of food (17 percent of food purchased in Chad) was purchased directly from nine local smallholder farmers’ organizations.

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