Real Time Review of the DFID funded humanitarian programmes in the Sahel 2013-2014

The present Real-Time Review looked at the DFID-funded humanitarian programmes in the Sahel
region (Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad) in 2013-2014. It focused on three key
elements:
- A systemic analysis across the different countries to identify key generic issues and lessons to
be learnt, including sector-specific issues of relevance for the whole region;
- Specific issues and constraints that led to differences in programme achievements either
between countries or between agencies;
- How flexibility is managed both in relation to operations and in the relation to DFID.
The Sahel belt is regularly affected by a variety of crises where droughts, or sometimes floods,
alternate with locust infestations, conflicts over resources and those resulting from the rise of
fundamentalist. In this complex and fast-changing context, the DFID funded programmes variously
address the following issues:
- Nutrition and food security in the context of a bad harvest or bad pastoral;
- The impacts of the Malian conflict, both in Mali and in neighbouring countries.