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The Humanitarian Community Partnership Team in the Central African Republic encompasses all partners working to alleviate the country's humanitarian crisis.

Situated in the very middle of Africa, the Central African Republic (CAR) is landlocked between Chad, Sudan, DRC and Cameroon. Roughly the size of France or Texas, the country has endured several coups since its independence from France in 1960. While the CAR is rich in agricultural, water and mineral resources, its people are among the poorest in the world. The Central African Republic ranks 172nd out of 177 countries on the UNDP Human Development Index, and over 70% of the population live on less than 1 dollar a day.

Since 2006, the insurgency in the northern prefectures has aggravated the humanitarian situation in the country. It is causing massive displacement of the civilian population, which faces violence committed not only by armed gangs, road-blockers and rebels, but also by governmental forces, which have tended to view the local population as sympathizers to the rebels. As a result, an estimated 212,000 Central Africans have become internally displaced, and some 78,000 have fled into neighbouring Chad, Cameroon and Sudan creating a looming humanitarian crisis. In total, more than one million people are in need of immediate humanitarian assistance.