Highlights:
The nutritional situation in Chad remains worrying. 112,230 children under five with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) were admitted into therapeutic care from January to July 2016, reaching 63% of the revised annual target (193,943). This is 21% more cases of SAM than in the same period in 2015 (87,860). Kanem and Bahr El Gazal Regions are particularly affected as by July they have surpassed their annual target by 106% and 118% respectively.
Displacement in the Lake region has reached 126,586, with 121,160 internally displaced persons living in 50 sites and 76 host villages, and 5,426 refugees in the Dar Es Salam refugee camp. Although most of the Lake region is generally calm, a growing number of incidents increasingly constrains humanitarian access.
A first polio vaccination campaign was organized in the Lake region in response to the confirmation of two cases of Wild Polio Virus in Borno State in Nigeria. 1.4 million children under five years old in 28 health districts in the Chad were vaccinated. The next round of vaccination is to begin in September and will cover 79 health districts and 3,348,000 children under five.
UNICEF’s HAC is 44% funded with almost $25.4 million in new funding received of the $64.6 million needed. The least funded sectors have been Health and HIV (86% funding gap), Child Protection (82% gap) and WASH (60% gap).
SITUATION IN NUMBERS
2,200,000 Children affected (UNICEF HAC 2016)
193,943 Children under 5 with Severe Acute Malnutrition in 2016 (Nutrition Cluster mid-year revision)
126,586 People displaced (IDPs, returnees, TCN, refugees) in the Lake Region (DTM, 01/09/2016; UNHCR refugee statistics, 31/08/2016)
Revised UNICEF Humanitarian funding needs in 2016
US$ 62.4 million
Available in 2016*
US$ 28.2 million