The Association pour la défense de Droits des Consommateurs (Chad) awarded $475,000 for a 4 countries project

This information was found while visiting at random the google map where the grants awarded by the Bloomberg Initiative are posted. 

The project aims to secure adoption and full enforcement of tobacco control legislation and/or regulations in line with FCTC COP guidelines and international best practice in Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger, and to support FCTC ratification by Côte d’Ivoire. It aims to share experiences on FCTC implementation between francophone African countries, improve preparation for COP-4 and illicit trade protocol negotiations, and develop strategies for improving tobacco control resources.

ADC is managed by Daouda Elhadj Adam

Country: Chad
Focus: Tobacco Control Policy (general)
Amount: $475,000
Start Date: Dec 2009
End Date: May 2011

If the budget is split equally between the 4 countries that is $118.750 per country for one year and a half.

Niger and Burkina have already received substantial financial support from Bloomberg (Niger: $94.900 for 2 years in 2007, Burkina $118.913 for 08/09 and $ 73.539 for 08/10) and in Chad the Association pour la défense des droits des consommateurs had also previously received a grant from Bloomberg (2008/09 for $64.125).

That is a total of $426.377 for those 3 countries (without computing the grants awarded by other organizations like NCS, IDRC...)

Meanwhile some countries received very little or nothing.

Could it be that some are more equal than others? Or less well connected?

Let us remember all the French speaking countries in Sub-Sahara Africa:

Pos	Pays	Population
-	Pays Francophones d'Afrique Sub-Saharienne	257,642,909
1	RDCongo	68,692,542
2	Madagascar	20,653,556
3	Côte d'Ivoire	20,617,068
4	Cameroun	18,879,301
5	Burkina Faso	15,746,232
6	Niger	15,306,252
7	Sénégal	13,711,597
8	Mali	12,666,987
9	Guinée	10,957,975
10	Rwanda	10,473,282
11	Tchad	10,329,208
12	Burundi	8,988,091
13	Bénin	8,791,832
14	Togo	6,619,000
15	République Centrafricaine	4,511,488
16	Congo-Brazzaville	4,012,909
17	Mauritanie	3,129,486
18	Gabon	1,514,993
19	Maurice	1,284,264
20	Comores	752,438
21	Djibouti	516,055
22	Seychelles	87,476

Source: us census bureau 2009 by countries 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa#Demographics