Since 2009, the Lake Chad Basin region has been prone to intractable extremist insurgencies led by Boko Haram that have left tens of thousands of people dead and approximately 2.8 million internally displaced, including 2 million in Nigeria alone, along with 264,000 refugees. Of the estimated 17.4 million people living across the region, 10.6 million are in urgent need of assistance. The most affected territories are Cameroon's North and Far North regions; Hadjer-Lamis and Lac regions of Chad; Diffa region of Niger; Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states of Nigeria.

To address this, the UNDP, in collaboration with the Lake Chad Basin Commission, the African Union, local and national governments, the African Development Bank, Denmark, the European Union, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, implement the Regional Stabilization Facility (RSF) to support the stabilization of the insurgency-affected areas of the Lake Chad Basin. 

This annual report details the progress and the achievements made in implementing the RSF from January 2021 through December 2021. The scale of the intervention varies according to the impact of the conflict and the consequent challenges in each of the countries and their respective target areas.