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Despite efforts by the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) over the past decade to address the protracted conflict involving Boko Haram and its splinter groups in the Lake Chad Basin, common integrated approaches to dealing with armed groups are lacking among member states. This bicc report focuses on several aspects that are promising for maximising impact. Adopting a regional lens for conflict analysis in and around Lake Chad is paramount. At the time of writing, conflict analysis and defection programming focus on the Lake Chad Basin without taking sufficient account of key linkages among armed actors across national borders beyond the Basin—including, for instance, the Central African Republic, Sudan and Libya, contexts where disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes have been or are being implemented. Actors leading these efforts should coordinate, juxtapose and interlink programming to make it comprehensive and enhance regional impact to make it sustainable.