Podcast “L’humanitaire pris aux mots” : When Aid Dries Up: What Remains of Sexual and Reproductive Health in Chad?

23/06/2026

This is the first episode in a series dedicated to the PASFASS 2 project, which aims to reduce gender inequalities by improving access to sexual and reproductive health and rights in the Mandoul and Logone Oriental provinces of Chad.

By 2025, official development assistance had fallen by nearly $31 billion. Behind these figures lie very real consequences on the ground.

Together with Dr. Firmin Rondouba (project manager for BASE on the PASFASS 2 project in Mandoul Province) and Annicette Kemneloum (consultant for the PASFAS project and gender specialist)—two health experts in Chad—we explore what the decline in funding really means for women, adolescent girls, and the most vulnerable populations: which services are at risk of disappearing, which balances are being undermined, and how is the sector trying to stay afloat despite everything?

A Groupe URD podcast, produced as part of the PASFASS 2 project (CARE and BASE Consortium, with support from Groupe URD for monitoring, evaluation, and learning).

Holly Barsham, a research fellow at Groupe URD, conducted the interviews and edited this episode.