Reports

Executive Summary. Due to erratic rainfall, the 2011 harvests in Chad are expected to be below average with alarming trends. Despite better rains in August and September, the Comité d’Action pour la Sécurité Alimentaire et la Gestion…

CHF 73,950 was allocated from the IFRC’s Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) on 11 April, 2011 to support the National Society in delivering assistance to some 650,000 beneficiaries. Summary: Some 2,085 cases of meningitis with 124 deaths…

Summary: The DREF allocation enabled the National Society to mount an immediate response to the outbreak through the procurement of non-food items (NFI) and to support training costs for volunteers. Following the deployment of a Field Assessment and…

Ce bulletin est produit par OCHA en collaboration avec les partenaires humanitaires. Il est publié par le bureau de OCHA-Tchad et couvre la période allant du 1er au 31 octobre 2011. Le prochain bulletin sera publié…

By Mahamat Brahimrahama in N’Djamena Cholera, the disease of dirty hands, was put in the spotlight recently on Global Handwashing Day which takes place on October 15 of each year. The disease affects 37 of Chad’s 61…

In a context that has evolved from an emergency situation to relative stability in eastern and southern Chad, the ICRC has been pursuing its activities to assist vulnerable groups. It has focused its efforts on helping…

Catherine Vincent Guardian Weekly, Tuesday 25 October 2011 09.05 EDT Western and central Africa are facing one of the biggest cholera epidemics in their history, the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund said…

The activities proposed hereafter are still subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/ BUD/2012/01000 1 . CONTEXT Chad is the fifth largest country in Africa, with an area of almost 1,284,000 km2 and an estimated population…

By Julie Garlenq in Chad The raw materials have arrived, almost 20 tonnes unloaded in the middle of a patch of wasteland. The challenge is to set up a cholera treatment centre as rapidly as possible with…

7 October 2011: The Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has provided $4 million in life-saving funds towards reducing deaths and illness associated with cholera in Chad. Since January 2011, 13,804 cholera cases have been reported…