UNICEF response
• UNICEF supported the installation of Sayam Forage refugee camp, hosting over 1,300 refugees, by providing latrine slabs, water bladders,
NFIs and recreational and ECD kits to UNHCR to ensure access to water and sanitation and support safe spaces for children as part of child protection.
• 18,934 people from Chad Islands have been identified (8,234 people identified in Kimé Gana and 10,700 people in Yébi) and relocated in two temporary sites where the government and its partners are providing assistance (including NFIs provided by UNICEF). Among the 2,807 households identified in Kimé Gana ( 8,234 people), 1,375 households were willing to be relocated in Kablewa IDP camp which is now functional. Since 4 th of June, 279 households from Kimé Gana have been relocated in Kablewa IDP camp.
• In parallel, UNICEF continues to support displaced people and host communities outside the camps and temporary sites.
• With UNICEF, COOPI has installed psychosocial support units in the transit sites Gagamari, Chetimari, Kablewa, Nguigmi and the Sayam Forage refugee camp, and Kimégana temporary site. As of 15th of May, COOPI reached 9,195 children among a targeted 9,750 children.
UNICEF is also working on the implementation of a Child Protection Monitoring system in Diffa in collaboration with partners.
• As of early May 2015, 254,664 children have been vaccinated against measles in Diffa region through two campaigns between December 2014 and May 2015.
• UNICEF implementing partners in Diffa, IEDA Relief and Save the Children, began their programme of cholera prevention and response in October 2014 (563 cholera cases have been registered in Diffa from October 2014 to February 2015). Since mid-February, thanks to joint efforts, no cholera cases have been registered. However, preparedness efforts continue to prevent a new epidemics during the upcoming rainy season.
• To ensure access to quality primary education for displaced communities, UNICEF in collaboration with COOPI identified 10 schools that are integrating displaced children. UNICEF is supporting building 14 additional classrooms, training teachers, and providing additional educational supplies for teachers and children. UNICEF will support an additional school in Sayam Forage refugee camp where 5 additional emergency classrooms will be built. As of 10th June, two classrooms have already been built in Sayam Forage, in collaboration with COOPI.
