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CHAD
FACTSHEET
31 August 2014
HIGHLIGHTS
CAR Refugees: 987 Identified
unaccompanied minors
100% access to Primary
Health Care and reproductive
health and HIV/AIDS
preventive health information
100% of known rape
victims received medical
assistance including PEP
within 72 hours
12,880 persons received
emergency shelters while
5,386 received supportive
shelter
96% of deliveries assisted by
qualified personnel
94.6% of SGBV survivors
provided with psychosocial
or emotional support
51% of refugee households
received energy saving
equipment
Population of concern
A total of
Funding
460,909 people of concern
USD 230 million requested
By country of origin
Country
Sudan
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CAR
Nigeria
Total PoC
363,384
95,117
1,680
COD
445
Others
223
Total
460,909
UNHCR Presence
Staff:
Offices:
269 national staff
57 international staff
12 offices located in:
Ndjamena, Iriba (Guereda, Amdjarass), Goz Beida (Koukou),
Farchana (Hadjer-Hadid), Gore (Maro), Haraze, Abeche.
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WORKING WITH PARTNERS
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UNHCR works closely with the Government of Chad providing training and guidance on international protection and
international refugee law as well as technical support including profiling, registration and operational support. The Commission
National d’Accueil et de Reinsertion des Refugies (CNARR) is the major Government counterpart.
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UNHCR Chad works closely with UN agencies (WFP, UNFPA, UNICEF, FAO and IOM in particular) to assist the refugee
populations in eastern, southern and western Chad. UNHCR works directly with 17 national and international NGO partners
throughout the country including ACRA, AIRD, BASE, CSSI, IRC, JRS, RET, CORD, APLFT, APSELPA, LWF, HIAS, IMC, CRT, SECADEV,
ADES, CARE.)
 UNHCR enjoys the support of a number of key donors on the ground including BPRM US, ECHO/EU and SDC. The Office holds
regular briefings and meetings with its donor partners and has taken steps to engage non-traditional donors and seek funds for
its increasing operational needs in the country.
Protection
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In 2014, UNHCR Chad has been faced with a number of emergencies in the South and the West due to the deteriorating
security situation in neighboring countries (Central Republic /CAR and Nigeria). Between 1 January and 31 August there have
been some 18,000 newly arrived refugees from CAR in southern Chad and over 1,000 Nigerians in the Lake Chad region in the
West. UNHCR mobile teams continue to monitor the frontier in the South and the West to ensure protection and assistance to
newly-arrived refugees. In 2014, UNHCR relocated a total of 14,163 CAR refugees from various border entry points to the camps
of Dosseye, Amboko, Gondje (Gore), Moyo (Haraze) and Belom (Maro). 5,149 others were assisted in their installation into
Chadian host villages. As of 14 September a total of 19,163 newly-arrived refugees from CAR have been recorded in the South.
In Ndjamena, 1,828 CAR refugees were registered among whom 1,728 opted to relocate to Dosseye camp in the South. UNHCR
Chad’s has launched its strategy of refugee self-reliance with the goal to promote independence and reduce refugee reliance on
humanitarian aid in the long term. This strategy is aimed largely at the protracted refugee population of Sudanese in 12 camps
in the East and CAR refugees in five camps in the South. In line with this policy, UNHCR is exploring alternative solutions to
camps. To date, 6,549 refugees have been settled in the many villages of Koldaga, Bekourou, Dilingala and Doubadene
(Moissala area), including 2,235 refugees newly arrived in Dembo village. HCR provides community-bases assistance to refugees
in hosting villages with a focus on access to potable water, health and education.
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While providing protection and emergency relief to newly arriving refugees, UNHCR Chad, in close coordination with the
Commission Nationale d’Accueil, de Reinsertion des Réfugiés et des Rapatriés (CNARR), has continued to provide support to the
protracted refugee population in the East (Sudanese) and South (CAR); and to a growing urban refugee and asylum-seeker
population in Ndjamena.
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UNHCR is supporting the government of Chad to identify Chadian returnees of the 2 and 3 generation who were born in CAR
and who have lost all links with their country. HCR continues to advocate with the government for the issuance of identity
documentation for this population at risk of statelessness.
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UNHCR through the Shelter / CCCM shelter Cluster provides support to the Government of Chad in Site Planning and
management of seven sites accommodating Chadian returnees/evacuees. (see below). UNHCR is also conducted a profiling
exercise in these locations to determine the needs of different population groups. While the profiling of the populations living
on the sites of Gaoui and Danamadja has been completed, the exercise is ongoing in Maingama. Finding show that 94.86% of
those living in Gaoui and 96% of the population in Danamadja do not possess national ID documents. Among these 96.8% of the
population in Gaoui and 76% of those living in Danamadja claim Chadian nationality.
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Nigerian refugees, some 1,000 new arrivals to Choua this year. Relocation to Ngouboua UNHCR assessment of the situation,
assistance, registration of 1,611 individuals in the Ngouboua area.
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 UNHCR Chad’s key protection priorities remain education: access to quality primary education to refugee children, Child
Protection and strengthening of prevention and response mechanisms to SGBV. From January to June 2014, 668 incidents of
SGBV were reported to UNHCR and its partners. A multi-sectoral approach and a referral mechanism is in place to address SGBV
incidents, which allows the survivor to receive medical treatments, psychosocial support, legal aid, safety and security. In the
first semester of 2014, psychosocial support was provided to 95.8% of survivors; 34.9% of survivors in need were seen in health
centres for examination and treatment. 26.9% of the survivors needed security and safety interventions. Only 8.1% cases were
filed in Chadian Courts. Nevertheless, the percentage doubled, when compared to 2013 when just 4% of survivors decided to
bring their case to a Tribunal. In terms of SGBV prevention measures, community groups, as the SGBV committees, are proactive
in awareness rising on the risks and consequences of violence. They also participate in referring and accompanying SGBV
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survivors to service providers. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for prevention of and response to SGBV have been
developed through a collaborative process with the refugee community, government, UN agencies and NGOs.
Education
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In line with the strategy to integrate services for refugees in the overall national programmes, UNHCR, working in close
collaboration with partners JRS, CORD, RET and IRC, continues its efforts to ensure a smooth transition from the Sudanese to
the Chadian academic curriculum in the East. To ensure that Sudanese teachers are absorbed, as much as possible, into the
new academic system, a 2-year training programme started in April 2013. Additional training for some 1,000 Sudanese teachers
is ongoing with the aim to introduce and better orient them to the Chadian curriculum.
Health
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UNHCR support refugee access to primary healthcare through preventive and curative intervention with activities such as
vaccination, sensitization, prenatal care consultation and treatment for common disease. Secondary and tertiary healthcare
located respectively in district and N’Djamena provides specialized care to patient referred from the local communities.
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The UNHCR health department is updating the strategy of health care intervention. The new and improve strategy seeks to
integrate the refugee health system within the national healthcare system of Chad, and by extension providing comprehensive
healthcare to refugee and host community.
Food Security and Nutrition
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Nutrition is also of grave concern, with two camps in the East (Oure Cassoni and Amnabak) showing a malnutrition rate of
18.9% and 18.8%, respectively, and another two camps (Djabal and Goz Amir) witnessing a steady increase in malnutrition since
2010.
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The aim of the ‘targeted assistance’ strategy is to provide assistance to refugee populations in camps according to their needs.
Based on the findings of the Household Economic Assessment (HEA) and socio-economy study conducted in 2013, the Joint
UNHCR-WFP-FAO Programme designed and will start the implementation of the pilot project; ‘targeted assistance’ in the East
(Goz Amir camp) where the approach is presently being fine-tuned. It will also be implemented in the South (Belom camp)
before its extension to all other refugee camps in Chad.
Water and Sanitation
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Access to water in the East is a particular challenge with a number of camps (Amnabak, Treguine, Oure Cassoni) receiving 10
liters of water per person per day. This has been exasperated by the recent draining of Lake Kariari, the main source of potable
water for the population in Oure Cassoni camp (36,192 individuals), by the authorities causing a further reduction in access to
water to 7 liter/day/person for inhabitants of the camp. HCR is advocating with the government to ensure refugees in Oure
Cassoni are provided access to adequate potable water.
 In the south, the access to the potable water is well above 20L / p / d in all the camps despite the different influx, particularly in
Dosseye and Belom.
Shelter and NFIs
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In 2014, UNHCR has provided a total of 4,583 shelters to newly-arrived CAR refugees (898) and Chadian returnees (3,685)
benefiting a population of 28,759 individuals (including 11,459 CAR refugees and 17,300 Chadian returnees). UNHCR has also
distributed as of 15 September NFIs including 6,286 semi collapsible jerrycans (10l), 10,558 plastic tarpaulin (4x5), 733 plastic
tarpaulin (4x50), 256 family tents, 2 ridge tent, 6,036 HT synthetic fleece blankets, 7,109 MT synthetic fleece blankets, 63
woven dry raised blankets, 20 buckets heavy duty (10l), 7,140 buckets heavy duty (15l), 630 buckets heavy duty (20l), 74 balls of
mixed second hand clothes, 4,414 kitchen sets (type B), 13,089 synthetic sleeping mats, 8,165 mosquito nets, 129,157.25 Kgs of
soap (70% fatty acid) and 40,332 sqm sanitary napkin clothes to some 36,631 beneficiaries including 14,163 CAR refugees in
camps, 5,149 refugees living among hosting communities, over 500 members of the refugee host villages and communities and
some 16,819 Chadian returnees supported with shelters.
Camp Coordination and Camp Management
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UNHCR leads (IOM co-lead) the Shelter / CCCM Cluster established in May 2014 in Chad to ensure coordination of sites
accommodating Chadian returnees/evacuees and to strengthen the capacity of government / local authorities. The Cluster
finalized and shared its strategy in July 2014 and coordination meetings take place on a monthly basis. The Cluster is in charge
of 7 sites. To date, profiles of 4 sites (Danamadja with a population of 11, 193 individuals; Gaoui with 4,893; Maingama with
5,626 individuals and Djako 1,474 persons) have been shared. Profiles for the remaining sites of Doyaba accommodating 12,470
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persons, Sido 17,603 individuals and Kobiteye 6,114 persons) will be shared in the next weeks. A Dashboard (including 3Ws) for
the Cluster has been established and is regularly updated. The Shelter / CCCM Cluster works closely with other Clusters to
ensure coordination of partners on the ground, to avoid duplication of efforts and also effective use of resources. Three Cluster
trainings will be held in September for members of the Cluster, partners and staff. On 2 September an Information
Management Officer took up his post to support the Cluster, work closely with IOM and other partners and to address the
information management needs of the Shelter / CCCM Cluster.
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The Shelter/CCCM Cluster has distributed a total of 3,793 shelter to the population accommodated on the temporary sites of
Gaoui (210 shelters), Maingama (1,951) and Danamadja (1,632).
Access to Energy
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The distribution of firewood adopted in most camps (10/13) in Eastern Chad was made to address the illegal harvesting of green
wood by refugees in need, and to reduce the incidence of violence against women and children during wood gathering activities
away from the camps. The foreseeable exhaustion of collecting sites and the escalating prices of firewood increase the distance
traveled which, in turn render the practice of firewood consumption less viable. Targeted distribution concurrently with
measures to reduce or effectively substitute wood consumption was established, and is gradually reducing the total quantity of
firewood consumed each year.
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Alternative energy sources such as solar cookers (12,910 units), briquettes (7.6 tons), dum nuclei (7 tons) and distribution of
firewood (3977tonnes) strengthen the access to household energy. 51% of refugee households received energy saving
equipment. However, firewood remains the main fuel used in household, despite alternative energy, 100% of households use
it.
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By end 2014, it is planned to make the distribution of 10,500 solar lights, to cover the remaining households in camps and the
installation of 75 solar street lights in the camps to enhance security, economic and education activities.
Community Empowerment and Self-Reliance
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The presence of protracted refugees (over 10 years), combined with progressive reduction of available resources to ensure
comprehensive support and the development of mechanisms by refugees self-management leads to redirect the vision of
UNHCR towards greater autonomy of these populations.
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Through Advocacy and negotiation around 30,000 hectares of land were granted to over 37,000 for families’ farm. To support
production during crop years, more than 650 tons of seeds and nearly 9,000 agricultural kits are distributed each year. In the
South, about 150 units of harness cultures (UCA) were allocated to producer groups. Intensification of rice crop in lowland was
initiated to compensate for gaps created following the abandonment of barren land. In the East, the project seeds for solution
place and emphasis on vegetable crops through irrigation schemes to empower beneficiary camps of Goz Amir, Jabal and Kerfi
populations.
Durable Solutions
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UNHCR has increased resettlement opportunities for Sudanese refugees as conditions for voluntary return are not conductive
at present time. In 2013, 1,173 Sudanese refugees were submitted for resettlement and four refugees departed to Sweden.
The submission target for Sudanese refugees in 2014 is 1,200 individuals. As of 8 September, 368 persons have been submitted
to resettlement countries and prospects are that the target will be met; and 75 Sudanese refugees have departed (44 to
Canada, 17 to Denmark and 14 to USA). The departure of three families of 14 refugees to the USA on 19 August 2014 (in the
presence of the US Ambassador to Chad) marked the first families to depart to the USA since the resumption of resettlement
for Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad since the suspension of the exercise in 2011. As prospects for the voluntary repatriation
of CAR refugees in the near future remain bleak, UNHCR will continue its Resettlement programme for CAR refugees with an
anticipated figure of 100 cases (350 individuals) submissions in 2014. UNHCR aims to submit a total of 415 cases for
resettlement in 2014.
Logistics
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Chad is a landlocked country that covers a vast area with a harsh climate marked by extreme temperatures. HCR’s areas of
operation in Chad are located at a considerable distance from Ndjamena and the weak infrastructure poses enormous logistical
and budgetary challenges to the operation. The rainy season; June - September hinders operation as roads are blocked and
large parts of the country become inaccessible. While the South is prone to massive floods, the “Ouadis” of the East, regularly
wash away installations, animals and people. In this context, UNHCR’s Supply/Logistics team remains a key link in the delivery
of assistance and services to refugees in Chad. The fleet of the operation is composed of 54 trucks, 358 lightweight vehicles.
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80% of trucks has fleet aging issue and does not respond the needs of the operation. Only 60% of lightweight vehicle perform
effectively. Most area of the operation are located in precarious zone and therefore the staff movement, including medical
evacuation is only accessible by humanitarian airway services. As a landlocked country, the humanitarian relief items are
imported from UNHCR stockpiles through the port of Douala, Cameroon and are stocked in 10 warehouses with capacity of
14790 m3 before being dispatched to the appropriate UNHCR offices around the country. The average shipping time is 5 to 6
months.
UNHCR is grateful for the generous contributions of donors who have given unearmarked and broadly earmarked
contributions to UNHCR this year as well as the following donors who have directly contributed to the operation:
CANADA | CERF | EUROPEAN UNION | GERMANY | LUXEMBOURG | PRIV DONORS AUSTRALIA | PRIV DONORS NETHERLANDS (IKEA
FOUNDATION) | PRIV DONORS QATAR (Educate a Child) | PRIV DONORS USA | Private Donors SPAIN | SWEDEN | SWITZERLAND |
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | UNITED KINGDOM (Not yet confirmed) |
Contacts:
Massoumeh Farman-Farmaian, External Relations Officer, [email protected], Tel: +235 68 00 05 30
Victorien Ndakass, External Relations Associate, [email protected], Tel: +235 66 20 17 93
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