This IPC analysis of Acute Malnutrition specifically focuses on 25 refugee camps and six host villages around camps of Chad. In 2024, over 58,000 children under the age of five are facing or expected to face elevated levels of acute malnutrition, including over 7,000 children who will likely be severely malnourished. Since the start of the conflict in Sudan in April 2023, there has been a massive influx of Sudanese refugees and Chadian migrants returning from Darfur, crossing Chad's eastern border. The analysis shows that the nutritional situation is as precarious in the refugee camps as it is among the host populations and it’s much more critical in the refugee camps located along the border with Sudan.

Response Priorities

• Promote treatment for all children suffering from acute malnutrition in the current situation; 
• Strengthen the implementation of community activities to promote good infant and young child feeding practices 
• hygiene and sanitation;
• Improve access to sanitation facilities and improved water sources;
• Strengthen the surveillance system for diseases with epidemic potential;
• Intensify humanitarian assistance in areas prone to refugee influx (resilience project).
• Capitalize on achievements in implementing emergency responses (minimum package system) and early prevention measures that have limited the deterioration in the nutritional situation;
• Encourage initiatives in favor of Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture (SANAD);
• Intensify and better coordinate resource mobilization efforts in order to rapidly and effectively increase coverage coverage of actions to prevent and treat acute malnutrition, while exploring their extension to the community level;

Risk factors

• Civilian insecurity and continuing deterioration of the security situation;
• Ongoing population displacement and influx of refugees from Sudan;
• Functionality of health infrastructures;
• Monthly monitoring of admissions to nutritional recovery centers 
• Flooding;
• Household food security and rising food prices on markets;
• Increase in cases of diseases with epidemic potential, notably the measles epidemic;
• Preventive and curative care coverage (acute malnutrition, measles, malaria and ARI)