Undernutrition costs Mozambique 10.9% of GDP each year, equivalent to USD 1.7 billion. As such, undernutrition is a cause as well as a result of poverty. Almost half the population lives in poverty, and around one-third in absolute poverty. The food insecurity of these households is exacerbated by Mozambique's high susceptibility to climate shocks such as cyclones, floods and droughts. Mozambique is also one of only eight countries with an HIV prevalence of over 10%. Malnutrition among people living with HIV (PLHIV) is a serious public health concern. Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mozambique¡¯s Nutrition and HIV programmes follow the Humanitarian-Development Nexus, aiming to serve communities in emergencies, assist in their recovery, and help build robust resilience. To learn more, please refer to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mozambique Nutrition and HIV Unit ¨C Current and future programming document.
How do you reach beneficiaries with food and services in the midst of a global pandemic? This brief describes how Â鶹ÊÓƵ Mozambique has adapted its nutrition and HIV programmes to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The Gender Policy (2015-2020) was approved in May 2015. The evaluation provides evidence, analysis and recommendations related to the Gender Policy¡¯s quality, results and to the factors that influenced those results.
Mozambique is highly exposed to weather-related hazards and faces periodic cyclones, droughts and floods. With predicted 800,000 people in severe food insecurity in the 2018-19 lean season, DFID funded Â鶹ÊÓƵ and HelpAge to provide cash transfers or commodity vouchers to around 120,000 beneficiaries in Tete province. Two notable features were introduced in the intervention. The first was linking the lean season assistance with social protection, by involving national social security institutions and prioritizing recipients of routine social assistance programmes. The second feature was providing transfers through a ¡®separation of functions¡¯ approach, with programme implementation and accountability roles divided between Â鶹ÊÓƵ and HelpAge. The interventions also created an opportunity to develop lessons on the use of unconditional cash transfers - unlike other countries in the region, cash transfers have not been used in disaster response owing to government concerns about dependency, expectations, responsible spending and market access. After cyclones Idai and Kenneth hit Mozambique in March-April 2019, the breadth of the exercise was expanded to consider emerging issues on the planned use of social assistance for recovery.
This report is the result of a study commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Mozambique and undertaken by an independent consultant, with financial support from the UK Department of International Development.
The publication promotes knowledge sharing and diffusion of a wide range of tested policies and experiences on how social protection initiatives can contribute to increasing food and nutrition security.
This Synthesis of Operations Evaluations for the Southern Africa Region brings together the findings of 11 operations evaluations, conducted from mid-2013 to mid-2017.
This report synthetized the findings, conclusions and recommendations from four strategic evaluations related to Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR): the global Logistics Cluster (2012), the global Food Security Cluster (2014), Â鶹ÊÓƵ's use of pooled funds for humanitarian preparedness and response (2015) and Â鶹ÊÓƵ's Preparedness and Response Enhancement Programme (PREP) (2015).
