Flight for Hope: Drone-supported monitoring to optimize aid delivery
Challenge
Chad spans 1.28 million square kilometres and hosts more than 2 million forcibly displaced people, with many incoming as a result of the crisis in Sudan. Security problems, limited resources, dynamic population flows, and barriers to accessing displacement sites make monitoring these communities and coordinating appropriate assistance challenging.
Solution
Leveraging drones and satellite imagery to better understand conditions at displacement sites, agricultural areas, and key transit areas on the Chad-Sudan border. AI-supported analysis of drone and satellite footage will generate data to support targeted development and humanitarian work across several sectors, including public health and livelihoods.
Impact
Enhanced site management, population monitoring, aid delivery, and resource rationalisation. Local capacity will be built through training on equipment use, and collaboration with communities and development partners will be strengthened to ensure alignment with local needs.