UNHCR issued the mid-year report about the Refugee Response Plan for Sudan in June 2024, but the situation has not improved. A recent news article by Education Cannot Wait wrote:
“With millions of people fleeing the brutal conflict, hunger and atrocities in Sudan, the education system in the neighboring state of Chad is reaching the breaking point. Since April 2023, over 629,000 refugees have entered the country, along with over 200,000 Chadian returnees.” The Chad plan received only 23% funding by November 2024. The overall plan had only received 19% of funding in June 2024.
The underfunding of the response plan impacts all neighbouring states and the services they can deliver to the refugees, especially children. For example “Egypt: 74,570 school-aged refugee children are not enrolled in schools and approximately 5,380 unaccompanied and separated children and children with special needs are not reached with educational programmes, denying them the specialized support they require for their development and well-being.”