The activities proposed hereafter are still subject to the adoption of the financing decision ECHO/WWD/BUD/2013/01000
- CONTEXT
Central African Republic (CAR) is a very poor country of 4.5 million people which has recently emerged from over a decade of armed conflict, but where little progress is being made in the key areas of Security Sector Reform (SSR) and Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR). In mid-2012, CAR had 75,198 internally displaced persons (IDPs), 39,855 recent returnees and 19,867 refugees, and there were 150,000 refugees from CAR in Cameroon and Chad. CAR has the second worst DG ECHO1 vulnerability index (2.81 – just behind Somalia – 2.88) and ranks 179/187 in the 2011 UNDP2 Human Development Index. The average per capita gross domestic product (GDP) was USD 350 in 2009. 62% of the population lives in poverty, and over three-fifths subsists on less than USD 1.25 per day. There is only one medical doctor for every 55,500 inhabitants and one qualified nurse for every 7,000. 105 of every 1,000 infants die before their first birthday and 174 of every 1,000 children die before the age of five. The maternal mortality ratio increased to 1,335 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2003. Only 67% of the population is using an improved drinking water source and 34% an improved sanitation facility. Markets are generally underdeveloped, thus increasing household vulnerability: sale of production and access to basic goods is limited by access problems, lack of price information and lack of demand. CAR was recently classified as one of the top 10 most dangerous countries in the world by the Global Peace Index.