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Civil-military coordination in the Lake Chad region (case)
Volker Hauck/ ECDPM(with thanks to UN-OCHA and Cell for Coordination
and Liaison (CCL) for sharing slides)
Informal CODEV/COHAFA meeting
24-25 July 2017, Tallinn, Estonia
• Violence (~20,000 Killed), Significant numbersenslaved/pressed into service, famine)
• 1.8 million IDP’s in Nigeria (UN Report)/ total displaced: 2.7 million
• 8.5 million in need of humanitarianassistance (UN Report)
• 276 Chibok school girls, but ~thousands of boys kidnapped
• Region is poorer today, schoolsclosed, development on hold
Summary of Boko Haram (BH) atrocities
Région du lac Tchad
Activités militaires Opération « RawanKada »,Une opération qui vise à attaquer les groupes armés dans leurs zones de repli. (ratissage)Les opérations devraient se dérouler au Nigéria, le long des frontières avec le Niger, le Cameroun et dans les îles
Evolution of BH: 2015-2017
Janvier 2015 Juillet 2017
ZONE D’INFLUENCE DE AL BARNAWI (ISWAP)
ZONE D’INFLUENCE DE SHEKAU
ZONE D’INFLUENCE DE BH
EU engagement in Lake Chad region
INSTITUTIONAL
ARRANGMENTS
• EU Del. (Chad; Niger; Nigeria; Cameroon)
• ECHO offices (4x)
• EU MS embassies (F&D)
• Hum. NGOs (EU)
• Dev. NGOs (EU)
• French army (Barkhane)
INSTRUMENTS/
FUNDING
• EU Trust Fund
• African Peace Facility
• RIPs (2x) and NIPs (4x)
• IcSP/ EIDHR/ CSO-LA
• EU MS dev. & hum. support (e.g., GIZ)
• EU MS military support (France & UK)
Civil-military coordination
• CMCoord (“Platforme Civilo-Militaire”)
• Follows a strategy of civil-military coexistence
• Chair: UN-OCHA
• Three structures:
– CMCoord Strategic Platform (4x per year)
– CMCoord Operational Platform ((2x per month)
– CMCoord Terrain Platform (only 1 out of 4 sectors operational)
CMCoord: participants
CMCoord
Humanitarian Coordinator
(OCHA)
ECHO/ UN/ ICRC/ NGOs
Embassies (USA & F)
Int. Military actors (CLL &
Barkhane)
Regional Military
actors (Chad & MNJTF)
CMCoord: principal tasks
• Establishing a regular dialogue between civil and military actors at strategic and operational levels
• Aims: promote humanitarian principles; civil protection; address incoherence of actions
• Regular exchange of information about security
• Discuss humanitarian access; use of armed escorts
• Clarifying roles of various military actors
• Next steps: Stabilisation Conference => promoting resilience & collaboration with development actors
Carte d’accès humanitaire dans la région du lac Tchad
Pb d’accès humanitaire
Présence militaire
Accès humanitaire restreint : combats en cours
Zones recommandées avec escortes armées (UN)
Madai
BOL
Bagasola
Liwa
Daboua
Axes lacustres avec escortes(UN)