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CAMEROON > Chad Nigeria Niger BACKGROUND Situated on the southern basin of Lake Chad, with Maroua as its capital city, the Far North region is one of the most densely populated, but also the poorest, regions in the country. While it faces many structural problems, it is also weakened by the persistent activities of Non-State Armed Groups (GANE), which are worsening the security situation by causing large-scale and recurrent population movements, particularly from neighbouring Nigeria. The number of internally displaced people is estimated at 453,661[1], while there are 12,2732 refugees, including 7,9305 living in the Minawao camp. In September 2024, 7,478 people were displaced as a result of insecurity in the departments of Mayo Tsanaga and Logone et Chari[2]. Security instability is exacerbating pre-existing problems of chronic malnutrition and food insecurity, which are exacerbating the growing population movements. Added to this insecurity are the floods caused by torrential rains in July and August, which affected around 356,730 people, destroyed almost 56,000 houses[3], flooded 82,509 hectares of arable land, and caused the loss of 5,278 head of cattle in 5 departments of the Far North. These population movements are generating socio-economic imbalances, tensions over natural resources and access to basic services (water, health, education) which are superimposed on the already existing chronic food crisis. The Extreme North is marked by a very worrying malnutrition situation, with malnutrition rates of 7.9% for the host population and 10.1% for IDPs[5]. Although cereal harvests in the 2023-2024 season were 14% up on those in 2022-2023, they were poor in some departments due to pests (army worms, etc.), pachyderms and flooding[6]. All these factors point to a situation of increasing food insecurity in 2025. [1] IOM DTM N°27 - August 2023 [2] Statistics on persons of concern to the UNHCR/Government of Cameroon, September 2024 [3] OCHA, Sitrep- Cameroon-Far North, September 2024 [4] OCHA, Note d'information sur les inondations- Cameroun- Extrême Nord, 19 September 2024 [5] OCHA, Sitrep- Cameroon-Far North, August 2024 [6] The Food Security Working Group - Far North - Assessment of the 2023 agropastoral season and food availability in the Far North region, February 2024 INTERVENTION AREAS Phase 2 of the project is being implemented in five (5) municipalities in the Far North: Koza, Mora, Tokombéré, Mindif and Dargala, Phase 1 of the project supported almost 36,000 people and succeeded in moving from the local to the regional level, supporting the region to become the first in Cameroon to have its own socio-economic development plan, thanks to extensive consultation work carried out by RESILAC. For this 2nd phase, the project aims to reach nearly 45,000 people. To find out more about RESILAC 1 in Cameroon, watch the project video (hypertext link). Consult the final brochure on the achievements of RESILAC 1 in Cameroon Sources: World Bank, WFP, AFD, Initial Baseline (Groupe URD-RESILAC) PROJECT IMPLEMENTING UNIT Based in Maroua, UMOP Cameroun is made up of Action contre la Faim, CARE, CDD, ACADIR, AJED-MR and ALDEPA. Each organisation has staff dedicated to implementing the project. In addition to these organizations, Groupe URD (lead for monitoring, evaluation, learning) and CCFD-Terre Solidaire (partners of ACADIR and CDD) provide indirect support for implementation. To learn more about implementing organizations in Cameroon: consult the dedicated page! INSTITUTIONAL ANCHORING The operational steering committee, which meets in Maroua, is chaired by the Governor of the Region. The national steering committee, which meets in Yaoundé, is chaired by MINEPAT (Minister of Planning and Regional Development).

RESILAC PROJECT > The project RESILAC - “Inclusive Economic and Social Recovery of Lake Chad” aims to create favourable conditions for strengthening people's resilience through economic recovery, social cohesion and sustainable management of the areas around the Lake Chad region that are most affected by the security crisis and climate change. After a first 5-year phase (2018-2022), which yielded encouraging results, all the project's stakeholders (Consortium of NGOs and donors) decided to pursue their commitment to this crisis-hit region through a second phase, designed on the basis of lessons learned from the first phase. This second phase (2024-2028) is financially supported by the European Union and the Agence Française de Développement. It is again implemented by a Consortium made up of Action Against Hunger (lead partner), CARE and Groupe URD, in partnership with the CCFD-Terre Solidaire network as well as local and national organisations in each country BACKGROUND > Historically, the Lake Chad Basin region has been an attractive rural pole of resources and employment, essential to the lives of the millions of people living in its hinterland. This region, which spans four countries - Cameroon, Niger, Nigeria and Chad - and is home to around 30 million people, is facing a profound socio-economic, political, security and climate crisis, exacerbated by a combination of long-standing structural obstacles to its development. Conflict between military forces and non-state armed groups has ravaged the region for almost 15 years. This conflict has displaced more than 5 million people and is giving rise to one of the largest and most protracted humanitarian crises in the world, with no clear end in sight. Local populations are trapped by insecurity and the effects of climate change, which are exacerbating competition over natural resources in a region with great potential. The ongoing conflict and food insecurity have not only disrupted the region's economy and social cohesion; they have also disproportionately affected women, who face unique challenges. In recent years, efforts to address the region's challenges have taken on a cross-border dimension, with the implementation of several large-scale regional projects, including RESILAC. DESCRIPTION The territorial approach as a central component of the project's intervention logic, guiding the action. As part of the RESILAC project : The territorial approach takes into account the territories that make sense for the stakeholders and communities in order to adapt to local specificities and realities; The territorial approach coordinates a multi-sectoral response and adopts a holistic approach, taking into account the needs of all the social groups living in the area; The territorial approach places local stakeholders at the heart of the intervention, recognising their leadership and diversity and developing responses with them based on the principles of consultation and co-decision. The aim is to improve the living conditions of household s, particularly the most vulnerable (refugees, internally displaced persons and host communities), and to help local players become drivers of change . The project therefore targets the driving forces in the area (young people and women in particular), vulnerable households (displaced persons, refugees, host communities), local players who drive life in the area and local associations that bring about positive change. The project operates at several levels: local (at the heart of its action), regional/provincial and national (advocacy). This territorial approach is structured around the project's three specific objectives (SOs or components), which interact at different levels in complementary ways. Component 1 (SO 1) : Strengthen access to basic services , livelihoods and social inclusion opportunities for displaced, returnee and refugee populations and vulnerable host communities; Component 2 (SO 2) : Improve the capacities of authorities, community organisations and civil society organisations at local, regional and national levels to ensure social cohesion and natural resource management (NRM) around Lake Chad; Component 3 (OS3): Support economic recovery and promote cross-border trade through access to employment for men and women and to diversified agro-sylvo-pastoral and fisheries production systems adapted to climate change. Three other cross-cutting components round off the project's objectives: Gender: The project intends to make an active contribution to promoting gender equality, by integrating this dimension transversally into its action and aiming for reactive and even transformative action in terms of gender Advocacy: As a continuation of its actions in the field, the project aims to bring its work to the attention of local, national and international decision-makers in order to support messages that will bring about change aimed at national decision-makers and donors in the sub-region. Producing and managing knowledge that is useful for decision-making: The project relies on a solid and dynamic monitoring-evaluation system that is capable of monitoring achievements in real time, measuring their impact, learning and adapting on an ongoing basis which is essential for ‘doing no harm’ and for the quality of interventions. The production of knowledge will be aimed at those involved in implementing the project and, more broadly, at those involved in the aid sector. RESILAC is designed as an agile solution that is constantly adapting to the climatic and security challenges challenges of the region. This adaptive project management approach makes it possible to: Monitor the project's progress and learn continuously by drawing lessons , and ensuring that the project respects the ‘do no harm’ principle, Shed light on operational issues that arise during the course of the project using the knowledge generated over a short period of time. For more information, see the podcast on agile aid, episode 3 on the case of RESILAC here ANCHORING THE PROJECT > The territorial approach of the RESILAC project means working in close collaboration with stakeholders in each territory and country. This includes in particular: Community leaders and traditional chieftaincies : Involved from the outset through participatory self-analysis to initiate a multi-stakeholder dialogue on the main issues in a given area. They make a major contribution to community leadership of collective debates; CSOs and CBOs: Community-based and civil society organisations supported by the project, promote civic engagement in all its forms. In particular, they are called upon to support the implementation of activities in the field, so that they can play their role at the heart of local development; Local authorities , decentralised technical services and local public or semi-public institutions : These players play a central role in the local development of the regions and also facilitate the implementation of the project Finally, the steering committees , which are held at regular intervals, play a major role in monitoring the project, and enable all the stakeholders to discuss the progress of the project, the context in the areas of intervention, the points of vigilance and proposed adjustments, and the new activities being developed. PROJECT GOVERNANCE & STRUCTURE > Find out more about organisations that make up the RESILAC regional network: here The RESILAC regional office, based in N'Djamena, is responsible for the overall management of the project. It ensures the smooth running and coordination of the project, as well as the consistency of programmes between countries. It is made up of a regional representative and regional technical experts in charge of methodological and technical support for each component of the project, as well as experience sharing and capitalisation. In each country , a project implementation unit, made up of project component managers and field staff from the various implementing organisations, is responsible for implementing the actions. A RESILAC national coordinator oversees each unit. In terms of institutional governance : in addition to the operational and national steering committees in each country, the project is governed at regional level by a global steering committee co-chaired by the European Union and the Agence Française de Développement. INTERVENTION AREAS > This second phase is implemented in Cameroon, Chad and Nigeria, more specifically: In Cameroun, the Far North Region : Municipalities of Dargala, Mindif, Mora, Koza et Tokombéré In Nigeria, in Borno State : Maiduguri, LGA de Jere, LGA de Konduga (under consideration) In Chad, Lake Province of Chad In line with the project's approach, the villages, clusters of villages and communities are defined on the basis of local assessments carried out with local stakeholders. To learn more discover our brochure - click here FOCUS COUNTRIES >

International conference Professional and economic integration of youth and women in the context of the lake Chad basin crisis: experience sharing and perspectives The crisis in the lake Chad basin is the result of a complex combination of multiple factors, including a precarious security situation involving non-state armed groups, extreme levels of poverty, persistent underdevelopment, and climatic disruption. This crisis, which has persisted for more than a decade, has affected every aspect of daily life (destruction of livelihoods, loss of financial and productive assets, limited access to education) of all social categories of the populations of the area; in particular women. The conference "Professional and economic integration of youth and women in the context of the Lake Chad Basin crisis: experience sharing and perspectives" provides a framework for exchange and restitution of the study on: "The place of gender in the socio-economic development of lake Chad", carried out within the framework of the RESILAC project. Tuesday, 18 October 8:30-11:30 (UTC +1) Video-conference Program 8:00 - 8:30 : Participants' arrival 8:30 - 8:45 : RESILAC presentation 8:45 - 9:45 : Study presentation and questions 9:45 - 10:00 : Break 10h - 11h15 : Capitalization and questions 11h15 - 11h30 : End Registration N'Djamena here Registration videoconference here Panelists Paola HARTPENCE - Capitalization officer, project RESILAC Kalilou Seydou MOUSSA - Socio-anthropologist, graduate of the EHESS , Marseille Ibrahim Hamidou OUMAROU - Regional technical referent for economic recovery (pillar 2) RESILAC project Hélène RONCERAY - Regional Coordinator RESILAC Register here

NIGERIA > Chad Cameroon Niger BACKGROUND Borno State, situated in Northeastern Nigeria within the southern basin of Lake Chad, boasts a rich cultural heritage and significant historical importance. For over a decade, the state has faced challenges due to insurgency led by Non-state Armed Groups (NSAG). This conflict has resulted in numerous issues, including security concerns from terrorism, displacement, and humanitarian crises. Additionally, there is limited access to essential services such as healthcare, education, and sanitation. Environmental degradation and the impacts of climate change further characterize the state. The humanitarian and security context in Borno State is complex and fragile. Some studies were indicating with an estimated 88% of households were food insecure due to food inflation and other interlinked challenges; about 90% of farmers were unable to engage in farming due to lack of capital, inability to purchase farm inputs and access related challenges[1] . [1] Food Security and Nutrition Situation in Jere LGA, Borno State, Nigeria Despite the efforts of Borno State , the security situation continues to make humanitarian access difficult in many areas of Borno State and is also seriously disrupting the region's economy. Cross-border trade supplying the main cereal and livestock markets throughout the eastern Sahel has been severely disrupted, leading to high prices for basic prices of basic foodstuffs. Some farmers have left their lands and casual employment is falling, preventing the poorest Nigerians and many foreign migrants of essential income. AREAS OF INTERVENTION Following the successes of RESILAC 1 recorded in Jere LGA in Borno State, Phase 2 of the project aims to scale up activities and replicate approaches and methodologies both in the RESILAC areas already intervened and in new localities in Borno State of the Lake Chad Region. In this context, the project will be implemented in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC), Jere and an accessible part of Konduga LGA in Borno State (Konduga of RESILAC1 of Jere LGA. PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION UNIT In addition to the national offices of Action contre la Faim and CARE Nigeria based in Abuja, three national organisations are involved in the implementation and governance of the project: Neem Foundation , Novel Alliance for Development Aid (NADA) and Rehabilitation Empowerment and Better Health Initiative (REBHI). Each organisation has dedicated staff to implement the project. INSTITUTIONAL ANCHORING The operational steering committee, which meets in Abuja, is chaired by the Governor of Borno Region while the national steering committee is chaired by the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.

Research Evaluation > Learning tools Program surveys Baseline Midline Endline Quarterly Surveys Feedback Day Iterative evaluations with mini-seminar (EIMS) Territory Diagnosis Program surveys Baseline Midline Endline Regional baseline survey - July 2019 Regional midline survey - September 2021 Regional endline survey - September 2022 Quarterly surveys Feedback Day > Feedback Feedback Day Region - December 2021 Survey results in the 4 countries - October to December 2021 Feedback Day Region - September 2021 Survey results in the 4 countries - July to September 2021 Only available in French Regional Feedback Day - June 2020 This report presents the results of the surveys covering the 2nd quarter 2020 in the 4 countries of intervention. Only available in French Feedback Day Région - September, 2020 This re port presents the results of the surveys covering the 3rd quarter 2020, carried out with 218 people in the 4 countries. Only available in French Feedback Day Région - Oct/December, 2020 This report presents the results of surveys covering the last half of 2020, conducted in our 4 countries of intervention. Only available in French EIMS Iterative evaluations with mini-seminars (EIMS) > EIMS 4 -Regional report This fourth and final EIMS was carried out in the four project countries with a focus on two dimensions: i) the institutional and partnership relations established within the framework of the project and ii) the utility of the EIMS itself within the framework of such a project. EIMS 2 - Regional report 2019 This second EIMS was carried out in Cameroon, Niger and Chad with the objective of analyzing the first achievements of the teams with regard to the project's programmatic framework and the evolution of the intervention contexts. Only in French EIMS 3 - Regional report 2020-2021 Resu lts of the annual evaluation exercise carried out in the 3 French-speaking countries to analyse the implementation of the projec t with a specific focus on the program phase out strategies. Only available in French Diagnostics Territory Diagnosis > Cameroon Diagnostics- 2020 Only available in French - K oza - Mora - Dargala - Mindif Territorial Diagnostics Chad - 2020 This report presents the territorial and community diagnoses conducted in the 4 communes in Chad. Only available in French

Supporting access to basic services & social inclusion WHO WE ARE: The Lake Chad Inclusive Economic and Social Recovery Project (RESILAC) is a regional project aimed at strengthening people's resilience through economic recovery, social cohesion and sustainable land management in the countries around the Lake Chad Basin. After a first phase running from 2018 to 2022 in the 4 countries around the lake, and on the strength of its encouraging results, all the project's stakeholders renewed their commitment to the project in this region through a second phase, designed on the basis of the acquired knowledge. Co-financed by the European Union and the Agence Française de Développement to the tune of €38.5 million, this second phase is being implemented by a consortium of NGOs Action Against Hunger (lead partner), CARE International and Groupe URD, in partnership with CCFD-Terre Solidaire as well as national and local organisations. Renewed for a period of 5 years (2024-2028), the project covers 12 territories in 3 countries around Lake Chad (Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad) and aims to reach more than 118,000 people. 118 000 bEnEficiaRIES 51% are women 12 TERRITORIES 3 COUNTRIES TESTIMONIES Get a picture of our beneficiaries' daily lives COUNTRIES Discover the context in our intervention countries. KEY FIGURES Get an overview of the project's past and future achievements. RESOURCES Find our publications and expertise.

RESOURCES > The RESILAC project website provides a variety of resources (learning documents, evaluation reports, and research reports) for you to view online or download. Learning tools Evaluation Research