Central African Republic
Humanity & Inclusion’s program in the Central African Republic supports humanitarian organizations by providing logistical solutions to improve their storage and distribution of humanitarian aid. The program also supports physical rehabilitation centers in the country and implements inclusion and armed violence reduction projects.
An HI physical therapist works with a young patient in Bambari. | © A. Surprenant/Collectif Item/HI
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Humanity & Inclusion first worked in the Central African Republic from 1994 to 2004, running development programs that included opening the Bangui orthopedic center and setting up the country's only university training course for physical therapy assistants. HI returned to CAR in 2016 to launch logistics platform projects that support and facilitate the delivery of aid by humanitarian organizations throughout the country. The program is currently managing a logistics platform composed of a road and river component and an aerial component.
In September 2018, in partnership with MSF Holland, HI introduced rehabilitation activities at Bambari General Hospital. This project is providing physical rehabilitation care, technical devices and mental health support to people with specific needs. In 2022, the program opened a new integrated rehabilitation service in Bangassou Hospital.
Since 2022, HI has implemented stimulation therapy activities for children experiencing malnutrition. Stimulation therapy prevents and reduces developmental delays and disabilities linked to malnutrition and trains parents to stimulate their children.
A Technical Cell for Inclusive Action (CTAI) was set up in Bangui in 2019 to improve the response of humanitarian actors to people with specific needs throughout the country. In 2022, the program also launched a project to improve the living conditions of people with disabilities and individuals living in vulnerable circumstances.
In 2022, HI launched its first explosive ordnance risk education project in CAR, in the Ouham-Pendé region in the northeast of the country. This project is being conducted in conjunction with a mental health and psychosocial support project for populations exposed to the risks of explosive devices or in situations of psychological distress.
Finally, HI has just started a pilot project on inclusive education in Ouaka, Ouham and Ouham-Pende. The aim is to promote access to quality education for children with disabilities.
Areas of intervention
Latest stories
Mardoché, a model of resilience
Mardoché’s leg was torn off by a bullet when he was just a baby. Today, thanks to HI, he feels confident and is looking forward to a bright future.
Thanks to HI, Samira is confident and making plans for the future
Samira, now a teenager, lost her leg when she was 9 as the result of a bullet wound. Thanks to HI, she can now stand on her own two feet again and is confidently looking to the future.
Isolated communities in CAR on the road to economic activity thanks to HI
In CAR, HI is working alongside isolated communities to improve the state of roads so that aid can get through to them and they can move freely again.
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Background
The Central African Republic suffers from structural underdevelopment and is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a human development index that places it second to last in the 2018 UNDP Human Development Index.
The country, marked by chronic instability since its independence in 1958, sank into an unprecedented humanitarian, political and security crisis during the third Central African civil war, which began in 2013. After a temporary lull, the violence resumed in December 2020 and continues today, causing a significant deterioration in the humanitarian situation.
The resulting insecurity and repeated population displacements have had serious socio-economic repercussions, compounded by the COVID-19 crisis, the impact of the war in Ukraine and sub-regional conflicts in Sudan and Chad.
These factors external to the Central African conflict are having a direct impact on inflation, which reached 5.7% in 2022. As a landlocked country in the heart of Africa, the country is feeling the full impact of global geopolitical developments.
- Number of HI staff: 84
- Program opened in:1994
