Annual Country Report 2022: Mozambique. Country Strategic Plan 2022-2026

Annual Country Report 2022: Mozambique. Country Strategic Plan 2022-2026

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2022.

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This report covers the first six months of the second-generation country strategic plan (2G CSP), which came into effect in July 2022 and continues through December 2026. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, Mozambique has 1.4 million severely food-insecure people. Over the past five years, the number of internally displaced people (IDP) has grown from 14,000 to about 1 million, which is almost 3 percent of the population. This is because of frequent cyclones and the escalating armed conflict in Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique. IDP are among the group most at risk of suffering harm from shocks because they lack access to services, food, shelter, water, and other necessities. Due to the sudden increase of people on the move, WFP has had to stretch its resources to help 91 percent more people than it had planned and halve food rations since April. In the last six months of 2022, WFP supplied food and/or cash-based transfers to over 1 million people affected by extreme weather events and the armed conflict in the north. People also received support through the provision of essential non-food items like agricultural tools and seeds. Under the Government's Direct Social Support Programme - Post Emergency, WFP supplied cash-based transfers and financial inclusion trainings to 127,850 COVID-19 affected individuals. In addition, WFP supported school-based programmes, through which 280,000 students received meals. With a focus on resilience building, WFP linked emergency assistance to livelihood and early recovery activities and provided almost 160,000 IDP with recovery packages tailored to their livelihoods. Initiatives also included trainings, access to financial services, insurance schemes, and digital platforms that supported farmers' access to the market, thereby contributing to social cohesion and peace while enhancing community resilience to shocks and stressors. Chronic malnutrition in the country has remained unchanged for the past 15 years. WFP nutrition programmes address the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition . In conjunction with the National Nutrition Rehabilitation Programme, WFP provided treatment for moderate acute malnutrition to 13,884 pregnant and lactating women and 19,213 children under the age of 5 years. Through HIV interventions, WFP supplied testing and counselling, antiretroviral therapy, and sexually transmitted infection screening to 5,247 people. One of WFP's primary emphases was also on improving the national systems and enhancing the Government's capacity that would help it prevent, mitigate, and recover from crises more efficiently.

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