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AFRICA
CHAD
MDG7
Progress Towards Environmental Sustainability
The ecosystem in Chad is quite fragile and is highly affected by climatic
change.Droughts and extensive exploitation of resources have contributed
to the weak conditions of the natural environment. The desert, which covers
around one third of national territory, is advancing by approximately 3-
5 kilometers a year. No formation of a coherent strategy for environmental
sustainability has taken place apart from the implementation of certain conventions
on biodiversity, climate change, and combating desertification. Some
Moundou
projects that the Government has undertaken include the Project for Conservation and Management of Natural Resources and
the Project for the Conservation and Use of Natural Resources in South Eastern Chad.
Chad encourages strong collaboration between civil society, government, and the population in order to foster a sense of national
concern with regards to the environment and its natural resources. However, degradation of natural resources will continue unless
a comprehensive, coherent and people-centered strategy is defined and enforced.
Around 4% of households in Chad are of modern construction, whereas traditional housing infrastructure, vulnerable to unfavorable
weather conditions, makes up 88% of households. In urban areas, around 57% of housing is of a traditional type, 32% is semi-traditional
and 11% is modern. Given these figures, it is unlikely that Chad will be able to fulfill the goal of significantly reducing the
proportion of slum dwellers by 2015, unless vast and sweeping
efforts are pursued.
QUICK FACTS
CURRENT PORTFOLIO BUDGET
Total UNDP-GEF and Co-Finance: $5,800,000
Total UNDP and Co-Finance: $2,671,580
Total MPU and Bilateral: $212,371
Total: $8,683,951
Cumulative Total ODS Phased-Out:
14.8 ODP tonnes
Integrated Water Management Plan to Achieve the MDGs 2
NIGERIA
CAMEROON
Environmental challenges in Chad necessitate the increased support
of partners to focus on the formation of national sustainable development
strategies modified to conform to the Chadian context, the
strengthening of local capacity for environmental protection and
management of natural resources, and improved implementation of
international environmental conventions. 1
The water management plan has already helped to redirect aid and design international aid programmes that are now in
progress or upcoming. In 2003 and 2004, the Government began establishing the central, regional and local (public, private and
WATER
association-based) management procedures laid down in the SDEA. These efforts to rationalize investments were undertaken
in close collaboration with donors and technical organisations in the field of water management in Chad.
NIGER
Sarh
CHAD
Abéché
N'Djamena
LIBYA
SUDAN
CENTRAL
AFRICAN REPUBLIC
SPOTLIGHT
Two thirds of Chad’s land area is desert, and over the past thirty years the country has suffered the consequences
of a persistent drought, accelerating the desertification process and reducing the surface
area of agropastoral land.The poor are vulnerable to chronic diseases related to their living conditions,
and lack access to clean water and sanitation. Women and girls from villages without drinking water
spend several hours each day collecting water, reducing the time the girls can attend school. The severe
lack of basic infrastructure and the multiple water-related issues in the country prompted the Government
to draw up a national water policy with integrated management strategies.
Funded through UNDP in 2002 with US$ 2.2 million and executed by UNDESA, the Integrated Plan for Water Development and
Management (SDEA) is a multisectoral, strategic master plan providing guidelines for the sustainable development and management
of water resources in Chad. The overall aim of the plan is to achieve the MDGs – particularly the target to increase
access to safe drinking water – and ensure integrated and participative management of water resources and its infrastructure.
The SDEA also integrates economic options for development, environmental constraints and water resources into a single overall
approach to sustainable development. The plan is not restricted to drinking water and sanitation issues, it encompasses all the
other economic uses (industrial, agricultural, pastoral, and fisheries) and environmental uses of water (rainwater, surface water
and groundwater).
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