Covid impact analysis Chad note Covid- June 2020

COVID-19 has deepened a food, education and healthcare crisis affecting the poorest and most vulnerable communities in four countries in West Africa. An estimated 4.8 million children under 15 in Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Chad, need help to survive and stay in school. This marks a 60 percent increase since the coronavirus pandemic swept the world.

Save the Children conducted a Household Economic Analysis in all four countries between May and July, just as COVID-19 was beginning to take hold in many parts of the world, including West Africa. Our analysis reveals that families already struggling to put food on the table were forced into difficult choices, like reducing their exposure to coronavirus by staying at home and going hungry, or going out to find work and feeding their families.

Before COVID19 there were 2,994,198 children under 15 who needed humanitarian assistance in Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Chad. With COVID19 that figure jumped to 4,792,882 – an increase of 60.07%.