The activities proposed hereafter are still subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2014/0100
AMOUNT: EUR 29 500 000
1. CONTEXT
Chad is a large but sparsely populated land - locked country with a population of830 000, bordered by Sudan, Libya, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroun and the Central African Republic (CAR) . Roughly 60% of the national territory is desert, 25% falls in the semi - arid Sahel belt, while the remaining 15% approaches sub - tropical conditions but is subject to flooding.
The country is emerging from a long period of civil conflict. Following the normalisation of relations with Sudan in 2010, ending several years of proxy war during which each country supported each other's rebel groups, parliamentary, presidential and the first local elections were held in 2011 and 2012.
