This Budget Revision No.1 has been extended-in-time the operation from 1 January to 31 December 2011(see below)

As a result of drought, Chad is facing an impending food security and nutrition crisis. Low and erratic rainfall during the 2009-2010 cropping season, following below-average rainfall in 2008, has severely affected cereal production and negatively impacted the availability of pasture for livestock.  Acrop and food supply assessment mission in October 2009 etimated a cereal deficit for the 2009 - 2010 agricultural season of 35 percent below the five--year average, whch translates into a net deficit of 637,000 mt.

the regions of Kanem, Bahr-el-Ghaza, Guera, Batha, Lac, Hadjer Lamis, Ouddai, Wad Fira and Sila, n the Sahelian belt of Chad, are structurally the mosto food-insecure in the country due to cyclick exposure to weather hazards.  Food insecurity in those regions has been further exacerbated by the past years' poor agricultural production.

A joint needs assessment conducted by the Government of Chad, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Famine Early Warning System Network and WFP in December 2009 estimates that over two milion people have been affected by crop failure and drought in 2009; of this total, some 750,000 people are located in teh west and central Sahelian regions (Bahr-elGhazal, Kanem, Lac and Hakjer lamis). The report etimates that 80,000 mt of cereals are required to cover the needs of the affected population nationwide.

Livestock raising i9s an important livelihood in the affected areas and provides a key source of protein-rich food, such as dairy products.  A government/Food and Agriculture Or4ganization assessment mission reported that approximately 780,000 cattle and over 400 camels were lost in 2009 due to the drought.  This translates into an estimated monetary value of US$460 million.  By the end of 2009, the livestock death rate had reached 31 percent.

Malnutition data reported to date includes rates above the World Health Organization's emergency threshold.  A nutrition survey by Action Contre la Faim in December 2009 in the Kanem and Bahr-el_Ghazal regions concluded that the global acute malnutrition rate of children aged 6 to 59 months is 27 percent, with severe acute malnutrition accounting for 4.5 percent.  The mortality rate among children under 5 is 1/59 per 10,000 per day.  One child in two suffers from chronic malnutrition (56 percent.

Countries

Chad

Chad is a low-income, food-deficit country, ranked  170th out of 177 countries in the 2008 UNDP Human Development Index. Chad has in the past six years hosted  around 255,000 refugees from Sudan ’s Darfur region and close to 77,000 refugees from the Central African Republic and 188,000 Chadians have been displaced b...