Chad - The Lac Prefecture Rural Development Project

The present project is relative to the Préfecture du Lac rural development project. The project aims at: (i) developing polders in order to increase farmlands and thereby agricultural production; and (ii) providing guidance to farmers in the prefecture. The project also provides for the construction of various socio-econom ic facilities to improve the general living conditions of the population and reduce poverty. One of the objectives of the project was to prepare a master plan for the development of the Lake Chad region and to identify at least two (2) priority projects whose feasibility study was also to be financed by ADF. The feasibility study of the project was finalized in July 1998. The Préfecture du Lac rural development project should be implemented in an area where the natural conditions are conducive to the type of crops proposed. The main components of the project are: (i) the rehabilitation of 13 polders through the construction of 22 dykes, the digging of 6 passes and the levelling of polder lands; (ii) the structuring of the rural world for intensive agriculture on 33,300 ha; (iii) the protection of kouri race cattle and intensive animal production; (iv) poverty reduction activities: construction of 100 equipped village boreholes, 19 primary schools, 4 health centres with 2 rehabilitated; rehabilitation of 120 km of feeder roads; and supplying the Project lmplementation Unit (PlU) with qualified staff and efficient logistics.