Annual Country Report 2022: Mozambique. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2022

Annual Country Report 2022: Mozambique. Country Strategic Plan 2017-2022

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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The beginning of 2022 was a turbulent one for Mozambicans. The growing armed conflict in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, is causing one of the fastest expanding internal displacement crises in the world. For the fifth year in a row, the conflict continued in 2022, with the highest reported increase in violence since 2017. Despite the unprecedented challenges, the World Food Programme (WFP) assisted 1,806,041 people, 86 percent of whom were in northern Mozambique. WFP's programmes concentrated on the provision of emergency assistance, resilience activities, and capacity strengthening through its seven strategic outcomes aimed at addressing the root causes and implications of crises that affect food security and the nutritional status of Mozambicans. WFP's activities applied a variety of strategies to assist people in meeting their basic food and nutrition requirements including the provision of food, vouchers, cash, seeds, and essential non-food items. WFP supplied food and/or cash-based transfers to nearly 1 million people impacted by the extreme weather events and armed violence in the north. Under the Government's Direct Social Support Programme - Post Emergency, WFP provided cash assistance to 187,000 COVID-19 affected people. Micro-insurance schemes insured 2,800 farmers who participated in climate risk management initiatives, of which 766 families received pay-outs amounting to USD 265,000. WFP's school-based programmes provided meals to almost 400,000 students. Under livelihoods activities, WFP increased farmers' access to markets and gave 8,000 of them42 percent womentrainings on good agricultural methods, financial literacy, and healthy diets. Nutrition activities in emergencies saw 11,544 pregnant and lactating women and 19,181 children under the age of 5 receive treatment for moderate acute malnutrition in conjunction with the national nutrition rehabilitation programme. The preventive and treatment efforts for malnutrition had a combined impact on nearly 100,000 women and children. WFP worked with the Government of Mozambique to improve the national systems and enhance its capabilities in a number of areas that would help prevent, mitigate, and recover from crises more efficiently. WFP sought to improve food security assessments, social protection systems, national nutritional policies, school feeding programmes, disaster risk management, risk financing mechanisms, and drought forecasting and monitoring, among others.

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