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In Numbers
694,341 people assisted in June 2023
8,117 mt of food distributed in May & June
USD 4.2 million cash-based transfers made
USD 198.9 million needed in (July - Dec 2023) in sixmonth net funding requirements.
Operational Updates
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By the end of June, some 270,000 new refugees and returnees from Sudan had arrived in Chad. In the border town of Adre, 50,000 people arrived between 17 June and the beginning of July. In response, WFP provided food and nutrition assistance to over 300,000 new arrivals and some of the most vulnerable among host communities between April and July 2023.
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By June, key challenges remained including road access following the start of the rainy season, increasing operational costs, delays in delivering assistance, sharp rises in new arrivals, as well as increasing staple food prices. In 2022, prices of millet and sorghum increased by 47 percent and 37 percent respectively, compared to average prices from 2018 – 2022 in the Sahelian zone. WFP continued to face funding constraints for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Lac province of Chad and, was therefore unable to assist IDPs in June.
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The nutrition response for the new refugees continued at the various sites where malnutrition prevention activities were taking place, through the distribution of nutritional supplements to children under two, pregnant and breastfeeding women and the treatment of malnutrition (children under 5 and PBWG). Six integrated mobile clinics continued to provide nutrition assistance to new refugees who were not yet transferred to camps.
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In June, WFP launched its response for the 2023 lean season and support will be maintained until August. Out of 1.9 million severely food insecure people (CH analysis, March 2023), WFP planned to assist 1 million. With funding remaining at 17 percent of requirements, WFP targeted approximately 200,000 people in the prioritized Chadian provinces of the Lac, Bahr el Gazel, and Kanem.
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Between January and June 2023, WFP reached 163,395 people with Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) activities, with 14,329 participants receiving capacity strengthening trainings, 3,562 hectares of agriculture planted or rehabilitated, and 273 hectares of gardens created.