Operations

This operation has been modified and extended in time until 30 June 2010 as per Budget revision 1 (see below).

This Special Operation is addressing a number of logistical bottlenecks and challenges that WFP and other humanitarian actors are facing in Chad.

The humanitarian community in Chad is facing constraints in delivering the required aid in the eastern part of Chad primarily due to limitations within the private transport sector.

Furthermore, the humanitarian community in Chad has identified a need for increased logistics coordination and information sharing among the actors, especially in light of the deployment of peacekeeping forces to Chad.The logistics cluster was formally activated in July 2007, but still lacks the means to provide the needed support.

With limited staffing resources, WFP Chad needs to reinforce the staffing structure with dedicated personnel to the logistics cluster in order to provide a more stable and sustainable service to the humanitarian community.

In order to address the limitations within the current structure in Chad and meet the needs, WFP will: 

• position a truck fleet to augment the transport capacity of the humanitarian community; and 
• provide the logistics cluster with the adequate staffing structure to ensure a better coordination and information management amongst the humanitarian actors.

The project with a budget of US$ 5,273,974 will run for 12 months commencing 1 September 2008.

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...