📋 Tender Overview
The Sahel and Lake Chad Basin countries – Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Burkina Faso and Mali – are experiencing an unprecedented, long-lasting and multi-faceted crisis. The United Nations estimates 33 million people currently require humanitarian assistance and protection across the region – including 11 million people people who have been internally displaced and refugees in the Sahel and Lake Chad Region. The conference aims to engage the international community and raise financial commitments to contribute to the USD 1 billion outlined in the humanitarian response plan
The origins of this crisis lie mainly in political upheaval affecting parts of the Middle East and North Africa from 2010, which has had serious security, socioeconomic and humanitarian consequences for countries in the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin. Climate shocks, such as the drying up of Lake Chad and cycles of flooding and drought, and chronic socioeconomic challenges further exacerbate the crisis.
Governments in the region are working to address these challenges through robust humanitarian and development initiatives, with support from their Member State partners, the United Nations and international financial institutions. These efforts seek to provide emergency assistance to people who need it, while striving to promote crisis-affected people’s self-sufficiency and wider development objectives.
In support of these efforts, the OIC is convening a Ministerial-level conference for the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin on 26 October 2024. This conference fulfils a resolution adopted by the 49th OIC Foreign Ministers Council in Nouakchott (March 2023) and will provide a platform for donors to mobilize resources to help address the crisis. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced to host the conference with OIC in cooperation with OCHA and UNHCR.
