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Humanitarian Action for Children 2018 - Chad (Revised September 2018)

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Total people in need: 4.4 million

Total children (<18) in need: 2.5 million

Total people to be reached: 742,700

Total children to be reached: 618,300

Nutrition

  • 268,837 children aged 6 to 59 months with SAM admitted for treatment - 59,094 children aged 6 to 59 months receiving a vitamin A supplement

Health and HIV/AIDS

  • 147,000 children aged 0 to 14 years vaccinated against measles - 40,000 children aged 0 to 14 years vaccinated against measles 40,000 pregnant women accessing HIV and AIDS screening and prevention of mother-to-child transmission services

WASH

  • 126,672 conflict-affected people accessing the agreed quantity of water for drinking, cooking and personal hygiene

Child protection

  • 30,250 children reached with psychosocial support through childfriendly spaces/other safe spaces

Education

  • 18,000 children accessing formal or nonformal early learning, pre-primary, primary or secondary education

  • 202,435 children received individual education/early learning materials

  • Non-food items and shelter 29,300 crisis-affected people accessing non-food items and emergency shelter kits

Chad

Chad is facing overlapping crises, including food insecurity, population displacement and epidemics. In 2018, 4.4 million people require urgent assistance, including 1.6 million who need water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. The nutrition situation deteriorated in 2017, with 13.9 per cent of children under 5 suffering from global acute malnutrition, up from 11.9 per cent in 2016; and 3.9 per cent of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), up from 2.6 per cent in 2016. From January to April 2018, SAM admissions increased by 18 per cent in the Sahel belt compared to 2017, leading to increase in annual target by nutrition cluster to 268,837. Increased rates of diarrhea and SAM are linked to food insecurity, poor hygiene practices and limited sanitation facilities. Chad also hosts 449,633 refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR), Nigeria and Sudan, and 96,000 Chadian returnees from the CAR also require humanitarian assistance . Insecurity due to Lake Chad crisis is undermining the livelihoods of nearly 127,900 internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returning IDPs to secured locations in the Lake islands require urgent access to basic social services. Chad remains extremely vulnerable to epidemics, including cholera,and the ongoing measles outbreak due to low immunization coverage.

Humanitarian strategy

UNICEF's humanitarian strategy focuses on a cross-sector approach providing integrated life-saving service delivery as well as linking humanitarian and development interventions while leading nutrition, education, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and child protection clusters. Caseloads have increased in nutrition and education sectors to reflect deterioration of nutrition situation and influx of new CAR refugees in the south. Preventive care like infant and young child feeding support is provided alongside curative nutrition interventions, including SAM treatment.
Children and their families receive a life-saving WASH package, including hygiene promotion and supplies, access to water for conflict affected people and hygiene promotion for people affected by displacement and epidemics including disease prevention and locally-adapted solutions to water access. The health system is reinforced with personnel and supplies in the Lake region and south, and with a pilot rapid SMS-based data management system for nutrition. UNICEF education services focus children affected by displacement providing access to education and learning materials, and roll out sustainable solutions like compensating community teachers and standardization of alternative learning. Unaccompanied and separated children are protected and reunified with their families. UNICEF also employs approaches to build community resilience, including cash and community-based mechanisms, and builds government's capacity for crisis management.

Results from 2018

As of 31 August 2018, UNICEF had received US$19.3 million against the US$53.9 million revised appeal (36 per cent funded). More than 147,500 under 5 children received SAM treatment through 610 nutritional sites/units in health centres and over 52,000 children received vitamin A supplements.

Health centres in the Lake region and in the sites for Chadian returnees from the CAR were supported through personnel, training and medicines to conduct consultations, including through mobile clinics. Some 13,595 children aged 6 to 59 months were vaccinated against measles and 29,673 women benefitted from HIV and AIDS screening and prevention services. UNICEF reached 54,134 people with improved access to s water and information on key hygiene practices. Nearly 17,300 refugees, displaced and returnee children accessed education, and 7,053 children were taught by teachers trained in psychosocial support. In addition, 13,016 children benefitted from psychosocial support provided through child-friendly spaces and 15 unaccompanied or separated children were reunified with their families. UNICEF reached 18,000 people affected by displacement with emergency non-food items and shelter kits for their protection. UNICEF also supported the Government to design and plan the implementation of two regional multi-risk contingency plans in case of an epidemic or potential inundation.