Annual Country Report 2023: Chad. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024

Annual Country Report 2023: Chad. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2024

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2023.

English

104 p.

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WFP provided unconditional food assistance to over 1.3 million people, 51 percent of whom were women, under its strategic outcome 1 (crisis response). However, due to funding constraints, internally displaced persons (IDPs) did not receive food assistance in the second half of the year. The Acceptable food consumption score for IDPs dropped to 35 percent in 2023, from 62 percent in 2022. Limited funding also meant that WFP could only assist 55 percent of the most vulnerable refugees as per its pre-2023 Sudan crisis plan. Nevertheless, the unexpected influx of Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees fleeing the Sudan conflict from April 2023 led to more refugees receiving assistance than initially planned. In this context, WFP enhanced its community communication and feedback mechanisms (CFM) to foster social cohesion and ensure accountability to the affected populations. WFP’s school meals programme, also under strategic outcome 2, received approximately half of the funding requirements for 2023. WFP assisted 342,000 schoolchildren in total - 68 percent of its target for 2023. This marked a notable decline from the 99 percent achievement in 2022, primarily because WFP had planned to assist more than double the number of children in 2023. Despite this shortfall, the programme maintained high attendance and retention rates exceeding 90 percent for both boys and girls among those who received assistance. Through its strategic outcome 3, WFP provided nutrition assistance to 540,000 people in need, with a malnutrition treatment recovery rate of 98 percent

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