Figure 3. Programme budget and expenditure by outcome, 2017-2020 (Million US$

its results framework, UNDAF implementation was estimated to require approximately $1.3 billion, with approximately two-thirds of the estimated budget for health, social protection, disaster/crisis management and recovery.38

UNDP and the Government of Chad have had a partnership cooperation framework since 1977, formalized through three CPDs since 2005. The 2017-2021 country programme is the third to be adopted by the national Government and UNDP Executive Board, and has a total planned budget of $82 million for the five-year period. Building on the areas of engagement outlined in the 2012-2016 programme, it seeks to contribute to four of the seven UNDAF outcomes for the same period, namely:

• Inclusive growth and sustainable development, with a focus on access to finance and value chain-related job creation, particularly for young people and women, development policy and planning;

• Participatory governance and social cohesion, including support to legislative, electoral and local government institutions for improved accountability, participation, representation, inclusive political dialogue and anti-radicalization;

• Environmental resilience and disaster risk reduction (DRR), with a focus on the management and prevention of floods and droughts and protecting the country’s biodiversity; and

• Human capital, including strengthening public administration and decentralized institutions to deliver improved basic services, particularly anti-malarial services.

The UNDP country programme recorded total programme expenditure of $144.3 million between 2017 and 2020.39 During this period the country office had 40 active projects, comprising 18 projects being phased out from the preceding period and 22 new projects launched between 2017 and 2020. 75 percent of the projects are implemented through Direct Implementation Modalities (DIM), accounting for 93 percent of total programme expenditure.

The largest component of programme expenditure in the period 2017-2020 was in the area of human capital and health (Outcome 4), primarily for UNDP support to the management of a Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund) grant for malaria for $94.3 million, representing 97 percent of expenditure under the outcome, and approximately two-thirds (67 percent) of overall programme expenditure (see Figure 3).

The second largest area of expenditure relates to social cohesion, rule of law and governance (Outcome 2), amounting to $24.8 million, or 17 percent of total programme expenditure. During this period, UNDP pursued its support to the area of electoral assistance, prevention of violent extremism and access to justice, launching a regional stabilization programme in support of the African Union regional strategy for the stabilization, recovery and resilience of Boko Haram-affected areas of Lake Chad Basin countries,

FIGURE 3. Programme budget and expenditure by outcome, 2017-2020 (Million US$)

$97.3

Human capitalhealth $8.5 Environmental resilience & disaster risk reduction $24.8

$13.7

Governance, social cohesion, rule of law

Inclusive growth and sustainable development Budget Expenditure

Source: UNDP Altas data, as of 30 April 2021

38 See UNDAF 2017-2021 Results Framework. 39 Based on ICPE project list (see Annex 6) extracted from Atlas as of November 2020.