Regional component of the ECW facilitated Multi-Year Resilience Programme for the Central Sahel - application for grant funding (December 2020)
ReliefWeb Press Release
Humanitarian and Displacement Context
Since the beginning of 2020 widespread and indiscriminate violence by armed groups have intensified in the central Sahelian countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. At the same time social and political tensions are rising, forcing more people to flee across the region. In Burkina Faso, the number of internally displaced persons reached over one million in August 2020 while internal displacement has doubled in Niger since the beginning of the year. In Mali, internal displacement continues to increase while the deterioration of the security situation in neighboring countries pushed over 6,000 Malian refugees to return to Mali in 2020. As of 30th September 2020, almost two million people, including 300,000 refugees, have been displaced across the region, exacerbating pressure on the already limited natural resources and social services in the new hosting areas.
As a consequence of the regional crisis, more than seven million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian assistance. In addition, over eight million girls and boys aged between 6 and 14 are out of school, which represents almost 55 per cent of children in this age group2. Over 4,000 schools have remained closed for 776,000 students because of insecurity alone during 2019-2020 school year. This is almost twice as much as in 2018-2019, while 12 million children missed at least four months of school across Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger due
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