Additional Context: This information was collected as part of The Aid Report’s original reporting, “In Cameroon, aid cuts deepen hardship as armed groups seek new recruits.” The story documents how the termination of a USAID-funded emergency response program left displaced families without food assistance, disrupted livelihood support, reduced income for small businesses, and contributed to worsening economic conditions in communities already strained by a decade of conflict.

The Anglophone Crisis Emergency Response program, or ACER, was a $10 million USAID-funded initiative that provided food assistance and livelihood support to people displaced by Cameroon’s decade-long separatist conflict. The program was terminated in March 2025 as the Trump administration moved to dismantle USAID and cancel thousands of foreign assistance programs.

Source: Devex