Development Partners Group Convenes Dedicated Meeting on Eastern Chad
Development Partners Group Convenes Dedicated Meeting on Eastern Chad
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the UN Development Coordination Office (DCO) convened a regional virtual meeting on 25 June 2025 of the Development Partners Group (DPG) for the Sudan Regional Refugee Crisis focused on the response in Eastern Chad.
Established in September 2024 to attract and highlight early development support in response to the Sudan crisis, the regional DPG organizes two Senior Officials meetings a year on the Sudan regional crisis, and ad hoc additional meetings. During the 2nd DPG regional meeting in April 2025, development partners discussed the rapidly deteriorating situation in eastern Chad and agreed on the need to organize a dedicated ad hoc meeting together with the Government of Chad and development partners operating in Chad.
An estimated 170 people joined the virtual meeting dedicated to Eastern Chad. The Government of Chad presented the newly released National Response Plan to the Crisis in the East 2025 - 2027. Ms. Fatima Haram Acyl, Ministry Delegate of Finance, Budget, Economy, Planning and International Cooperation of Chad, highlighted in her presentation that Chad has 23 provinces, including 4 which have been severely impacted by the conflict in the East. The Minister outlined the five pillars of the plan and indicated that this plan would be coordinated at the highest levels to ensure whole-of-government participation.
Development actors shared reflections and updates from their responses to the Sudan conflict and their ideas on how to scale up development action in Eastern Chad. Updates were shared by Germany, the World Bank, the Islamic Development Bank, the European Union, UN-Habitat, the International Monetary Fund, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
For more information, refer to the meeting’s Outcomes Document and contact Helene Atrafi (UNHCR – [email protected]), and Kwasi Amankwaah (UN Development Coordination Office, [email protected]).