Standardised Expanded Nutrition Survey (East, South and Lake Region) - 2021

The Standardized Expanded Nutrition Surveys (SENS) provide regular nutrition data that plays a key role in delivering effective and timely interventions to ensure good nutritional outcomes in the refugee populations. Chad hosts approximately 450 000 refugees mainly originating from Sudan, Central African Republic, and Nigeria representing about 4 percent of the total population of the country. This can be explained by the security challenges caused by tensions in neighboring countries and by the macroeconomic situation of the country itself. Additionally, the Covid-19 pandemic has adversely impacted the livelihood of this already vulnerable population due to loss of means of income and reduction of revenues and support. In this context, the SENS 2021 was organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with Health Ministry of Chad. Data collection took place between 17 June and 22 July 2021 and covered 25 camps of Sudanese, Central African and Nigerian refugees in the East, South, and Lake Regions of Chad, including host villages living 25 km around the camps. A total of 705 clusters of 15 320 households were surveyed, including 13 087 children between 0 and 59 months of age who were surveyed for Anthropometry. A detailed report on the nutritional situation of the various segments of the population was published together with all the relevant datasets.