Chad

Concern has worked with Chad's Ministry of Public Health since 2017 to facilitate greater access to and quality of healthcare services in the country. We support local qualified healthcare providers, supply essential medicines and equipment to clinics, build the capacity of local providers, ensure patient referrals, and overall support the community network. For harder-to-reach and remote areas, we provide mobile health clinic service, with a strong focus on both screening for and treating malnutrition and offering comprehensive maternal and child health services. 

A focus on preventative care has made it possible to strengthen the immunity of children and pregnant/lactating women against communicable diseases, and our maternal healthcare interventions have helped to control maternal morbidity and mortality rates. Our cure rates for cases of severe acute malnutrition (via our standard-setting Community Management of Acute Malnutrition programme) for 2023 were over 97%.

Concern Chad’s livelihoods programs incorporate education, food security, and agriculture (one of the main forms of employment for Chadians), to ensure that participants have the tools they need to earn a sustainable living, learn new skills, improve the yield and nutritional value of their harvests, and generate more income through small businesses. 

Concerted and Inclusive Development in the Lake Province (DECILAC) is a groundbreaking project in the Lac province supported by Facilité G5 Sahel and focused on inclusively investing in food security and strengthening local value chains. Our work with communities to build financial and climate resilience will include constructing fish markets, rehabilitating slaughterhouses, and redeveloping agricultural polders. We have also launched an Irish Aid-funded project, Chronic Humanitarian Crisis, which supports market gardening and artisanal fishing groups. 

In Sila, the Program for the Economic and Social Resilience of Eastern Chad’s Populations to Conflict and Climate Change (RESPECCT) is a multiyear initiative funded by the EU and French Development Agency. It aims to provide and promote economic development by supporting income-generating activities, community infrastructure, and professional training (especially for young women) across 75 villages.

Concern has been responding to an ongoing emergency in the Lake Chad Basin, where tens of thousands of civilians have sought refuge from protracted insecurity in the region. Through the Regional Sahel Fund (in partnership with IRC), we have worked with these communities to meet immediate needs (including shelters and other non-food essentials). We’ve also placed a huge emphasis on healthcare for both displaced and host communities in the Basin via support for local clinics and providing mobile clinics for harder-to-reach areas. Last year we reached 24,600 people through a multisectoral response encompassing health and nutrition, shelter, essential household items, social protection, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH). 

Concern has also become a leader in responding to the influx of refugees in eastern Chad following the onset of the Sudanese conflict in April 2023. In the wake of this, we launched multiple interventions in the Sila province, distributing non-food items and hygiene and dignity kits, and building shelters and boreholes for wells. We also deployed more mobile clinics and launched a series of awareness campaigns to curb the spread of disease in the refugee camps.