Greater Lake Chad Strategy 2021–2031

As part of Search for Common Ground’s (Search) organization – wide strategy, the Greater Lake Chad (GLC) region was identified as one of twelve transnational conflict geographies in which Search will focus its efforts over the coming ten years. This summary lays out Search’s comprehensive strategy for the GLC region, composed of the countries bordering the Lake Chad Basin, including Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The multidimensional and transborder dimensions of conflict in the region demand a holistic, regional programmatic, and operational strategy.

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This entry was posted in Africa, Reports and tagged Cameroon, Cameroon Reports, Chad, Chad Reports, Conflict Geography Strategies, Niger, Niger Reports, Nigeria, Nigeria Reports on February 3, 2023.

Policy Brief – Transnational Dimensions of Conflict Between Farmers and Herders in the Western Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin

This paper draws on the expertise of African researchers and practitioners to examine the transnational dimensions of farmer-herder relations across the Western Sahel and the Lake Chad Basin. As conflicts between these two communities escalate in the region, it is vital for all stakeholders to coordinate and advance sustainable solutions to mitigate and prevent further violence. This brief finds that demographic and ecological changes are straining already-stretched governance capacities in many areas of West Africa, and proposes a number of recommendations for international, regional, and national actors.

This entry was posted in Africa, Reports and tagged Burkina Faso, Burkina Faso Reports, Chad, Chad Reports, Mali, Mali Reports, Niger, Niger Reports, Nigeria, Nigeria Reports on April 22, 2020.

Chadian Youth Fight Drug Abuse in their communities

Young people in the Sahel face critical economic and social challenges, which constitute potential sources of conflict, as youth frustrations risk being diverted towards destructive social behavior. Peace through Development (PDEVII) aims to instead channel youth energies into constructive action in their communities. Across Chad, Burkina Faso, and Niger, PDEVII has worked with young men and women to strengthen their capacities to analyze and deal with conflict and other themes related to violent extremism, through collaborative social action.

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This entry was posted in Reports, Resources, Success Stories and tagged Chad Reports, Chad Success Stories, PDEV II on September 3, 2014.

Analysis of conflicts, natural disasters and vulnerability of the education system to shocks in Chad

In the context of the UNICEF “Peace building, Education and Advocacy”(PBEA) programme, the Education Section of UNICEF in Chad partnered with SFCG to conduct a desk review of essential documents and a field based study to identify key conflict drivers and gain a better understanding of the root causes, dynamics and forces involved in conflicts and disasters. The methodology used was capacity building, identification of key representative regions, areas for consultations, workshops and interviews with key actors, stakeholders and youth. The process has been informed by a comprehensive and contextual conflict analysis based on a socio-political economic approach, which includes a broader socio-political, economic, regional, geographical, demographical and environmental contexts and dynamics, within which education system is analyzed. Data was collected in a sample of 7 regions, using a mix of methodologies: focus group discussions, interview with key informants and survey with 2448 households.

This entry was posted in Africa, Evaluations, Resources and tagged Chad Reports on December 30, 2013.