Environmental and Social Risk Assessment of the Lake Chad Conventional Basin

The Lake Chad water basin is a terminal depression consisting of portions of eight countries (Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan, Libya and Algeria), with a total of 2,381,635 km2 of shared drainage. The mission of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC), and its member states, is the concerted integrated sustainable management of water and other natural resources of the Lake Chad basin. The goal of the Environmental and Social Risk Assessment of the Lake Chad Conventional Basin was to assist the LCBC in meeting this mandate. The objectives of the report were to: (1) identify potential environmental and human-induced risks to the agricultural, pastoral, and fisheries resources of the basin; (2) identify environmental risks, and the nature of those risks, to long-term water supply at the level of the basin and its sub-basins; and (3) offer recommendations and guidance on long-term resource management policies and priorities at the basin level.