Cameroon

Why we are there

DRC has been present in Adamawa and Eastern Cameroon since 2017 to support Central African refugees. There, DRC implements a graduation approach and works with refugees and vulnerable Cameroonians to find durable solutions. Since January 2023, DRC has been leading a consortium with several international organizations whose activities aim at a comprehensive response to the Central African crisis spanning the border area between Cameroon and CAR.​

In 2019, DRC opened a base in the English-speaking Southwest region, affected by an armed separatist insurgency since 2017. DRC and its local partners support internally displaced Cameroonians and their host communities with emergency protection, shelter and essential non-food items, and assistance with food security and livelihood opportunities.​

In 2023, DRC extended its activities to Cameroon's Far North to provide a protection, positive peace, governance and economic resilience response to the multidimensional and interconnected crises affecting the region. Together with its local partner, DRC aims to support the many internally displaced people as well as refugees from Chad and Nigeria.​

What we do

In Adamawa and Eastern Cameroon, DRC implements sustainable solutions in partnership with local stakeholders for Central African refugees and host communities.

Our projects aim to meet the immediate and long-term needs of the populations, through a graduation approach, by equipping them in community-based protection and peaceful conflict management, conducting campaigns for child protection and against GBV, encouraging social cohesion, strengthening their economic capacities, the financial inclusion of the most vulnerable and stimulating entrepreneurship, while supporting good governance practices.

In the South-West region since 2019, DRC has been assisting refugees as well as IDPs who have been victims of the Anglophone crisis raging since 2017.

Given the severity of the crisis and the urgency of the needs, DRC's humanitarian response is designed to be rapid, multi- sectoral and sustainable. Working in partnership with local CSOs, DRC is responding to the need for emergency shelter/NFI kits in rural and urban areas through various modalities (voucher, in-kind, cash) and protection incidents with a focus on the vulnerability of the youngest and women (psychosocial support, host family training, menstrual hygiene, life skills for adolescents, API, SFN, CM, civil documentation). DRC also aims to strengthen the livelihoods of the most vulnerable via IGAs, to provide food assistance through vouchers, and conducts sectoral studies on the needs of the area. In addition, since 2023, DRC has extended its area of intervention to the communities in the South-West, and aims to expand into the North-West with local partners.​

In the Far North, we work with communities and local actors. 

There, DRC promotes social cohesion and peacebuilding by strengthening local conflict management capacities,​ improving the resilience and sustainable economic integration of young people and women affected by conflict, and supporting local governance to strengthen community stabilization and resilience.