Strengthening Sustainable Solutions Data and Evidence through Human Security monitoring in the Sahel ​

The Sahel region faces numerous human security challenges, including climate change, environmental degradation, political instability, inter-community conflicts, and violent extremism. These issues, compounded by complex mobility patterns, have led to significant intraregional migration and internal displacement. Cameroon and Chad, the two countries targeted by this programme, are both deeply affected by these overlapping drivers of insecurity and mobility. Strengthening human security in these countries presents an opportunity to reinforce governance, build resilience, and lay the groundwork for lasting peace. Moreover, a deeper understanding of the root causes of insecurity and population movement, supported by a shared, evidence-based analysis of trends and community perceptions, can help catalyze more coherent, coordinated, and effective cross-border responses.​

The programme aims to enable Governments, the UN system and other key stakeholders in Cameroon and Chad to pilot the development of analyses needed to better understand and address factors of human insecurity generating displacements in the Sahel. To achieve this, the programme will (i) develop and test a human security perception module, and (ii) provide key stakeholders with actionable information on human security perceptions and drivers of current and future mobility per target country to enable anticipatory action as well as conflict prevention, stabilization, peacebuilding, climate change adaptation and sustainable solutions to internal displacement.

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