WFP Chad Country Brief, March 2021
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USD 1.6 m cash-based transfers made
USD 81.5 m six months (April – September 2021) net funding requirements
377,034 people assisted in March 2021
Operational Updates
• Following the results of the March 2021 Cadre Harmonisé (food security assessment), WFP is preparing for the lean season response. Between June and August, based on the needs assessment, WFP aims to assist 690,000 food insecure Chadians across six provinces in the Sahelian belt (Barh el Gazal, Batha, Guera, Kanem, Lac, and Wadi Fira) with a full ration of food for 90 days.
However, with funding to date, WFP can only assist 535,000 food insecure Chadians with a half ration of food for 90 days. According to the Cadre Harmonisé, a total of 1.78 million Chadians will be food insecure (Phase 3 and above) during the lean season when food becomes scarce and expensive, especially in the Sahelian belt region. Of the total, 1,613,220 people are projected to be in crisis (phase 3) and 165,410 in emergency (phase 4). Compared to 2020, the total number of food insecure Chadians increased by 760,000.