Chad

Chad is facing a massive influx of refugees from Sudan. Essential resources such as food and water are scarce. SWISSAID has launched an emergency aid project to support 10,000 families in one of the country’s largest refugee camps and surrounding villages, aiming to improve access to water and food security.

In the Guéra region of Chad, important arable land and other natural resources are becoming increasingly scarce due to climate change. This sometimes leads to serious conflicts between nomadic herders and local peasants. This situation is to be improved through the multi-layered Triple Nexus approach.

Achieving gender equality in rural areas, where 80% of the agricultural workforce is female, has been a cornerstone of SWISSAID’s work for decades. Development may sometimes seem slow, but the successes are there for all to see. As in Chad, where access to land, livestock and agro-ecology training is improving the living conditions of women, and with them those of their entire families.

Marthe Tchere, a smallholder farmer from Bokyo in Chad, was one of the first to join SWISSAID’s goat project. Thanks to the animals, she can now feed her family, earn her own money and use it to send her children to school. And in doing so, she earns the respect of the men in the village.

The war in Ukraine has drastic effects worldwide. Especially in our African partner countries, the consequences are worrying. People who were already threatened by hunger before are now facing food shortages and price increases for basic foodstuffs. On this page you will find news and developments in our partner countries.

Women feed the world – yet they often have few rights. This is why SWISSAID has been working for decades to empower women. One of them, the farmer Louise Ndodjita, is successfully asserting herself in the male-dominated society of Chad. This is thanks in part to a literacy course.