Agriculture and Food Security

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Feed the Future Mozambique Resiliência Integrada na Nutrição e Agricultura (RESINA) Activity

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The Feed the Future Mozambique Resiliência Integrada na Nutrição e Agricultura Activity (FTF RESINA) is a five year $29.5 M integrated agriculture, WASH (Water , Sanitation and Hygiene) and nutrition activity aimed to strengthen the ability of communities and systems to absorb, adapt to, and transform to the frequent shocks and stressors they face. Located in the Resilience Focus Zone (RFZ) of Zambezia and Nampula, RESINA will focus on diversified and climate-smart agriculture production, increased access to clean water through multi-use water systems, and improved nutrition outcomes for women and children under 2 years of age.

Feed the Future Resilient Coastal Communities (RCC)

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The RCC activity is a five year $24M activity and focuses on a subset of the coastal region south of Pemba and North of Maganja de Costa. The RCC activity will blend USAID Feed the Future and Biodiversity resources to improve the resilience of coastal communities where rich, yet fragile land and marine ecosystems are at risk of climatic shocks and human-inflicted degradation. The intent of the activity is to create high-quality, effective partnerships to pilot new and innovative ways to improve the resilience of coastal communities living in rich land and marine ecosystems that are vulnerable to climatic shocks and environmental degradation.

Feed the Future Mozambique Promoting Innovative and Resilient Agriculture Market Systems (FTF PREMIER) Activity

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The Feed The Future Mozambique Promoting Innovative and Resilient Agriculture Market Systems (PREMIER) activity is a five-year $25.5 M activity that will promote inclusive and resilient agriculture-led growth along the Nacala corridor of northern Mozambique. It supports the goals and objectives of Feed the Future to reduce poverty, fight hunger, increase smallholder incomes, and improve nutrition. This activity focuses on applying a market systems approach that will incentivize responsible private sector investment, improve access to finance, enhance risk mitigation management, and expand employment and entrepreneurship opportunities, particularly for youth and women. The goal is to achieve transformational results by targeting small and medium sized agribusinesses, and smallholder commercial farmers.

Feed the Future Mozambique Resilient Coastal Communities (RCC) Activity

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he coastal areas of northern Mozambique are blessed with world class terrestrial and marine resources, but face ever-growing challenges from climate change, lack of economic opportunity, and growing levels of violent extremism.

Feed the Future Southern Africa Seed Trade Project (Regional)

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The Feed the Future Southern Africa Seed Trade Project (Seed Trade Project) is a six-year project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Southern Africa Regional Mission and implemented by DAI Global, LLC (DAI) with the primary goal of improving the availability of and access to high-quality seed in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.

Food Security Innovation Lab – Impact Evaluation of FCC -SFCS Project

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Forca a Crianca e Comunidade (FCC) is a five-year cooperative agreement implemented by World Education and designed to provide education, social and economic strengthening to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in Manica, Sofala and Zambezia. Food Security Innovations Lab, part of the BASIS-AMA consortium implemented by UC Davis in conjunction with other US-based universities, is completing a prospective independent impact evaluation of the FCC activity.

Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG)

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In the 1990s, the government of Mozambique created a legal framework for land which recognized traditional community rights while encouraging investment. While the resulting legislation is progressive – land is owned by the state, and communities and good faith occupants have perpetual use rights – it has been unevenly implemented.

Mozambique Small Holder Farmer Production and Productivity Activity (MSFPPA)

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Agriculture is the backbone of Mozambique’s economy with more than 80% of the population employed in this sector, 90% of those being women. However, the sector’s performance is characterized by low levels of production and productivity due to numerous challenges. These include the adverse impacts of climate change and climate variability (droughts, floods, emergent crop and livestock pests/diseases); lack of availability and access to quality inputs and technologies; soil degradation and low fertility; poor capacity for disease surveillance and control; inadequate veterinary services; insufficient extension services and poor linkages between extension and research. As a result, the Mozambican Ministry of Agriculture and Food security (MASA), in partnership with FAO, would like to build its capacity to improve service delivery to farmers to counter the climatic and pest/disease challenges facing them.

Parterning for Innovation (P4I)

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Despite Mozambique’s recent economic growth and its strategic location in southern Africa, the country still faces challenges in developing its agriculture sector and reducing hunger. The most common is the lack of access to quality inputs and markets. The Mozambican agricultural market has an undeveloped agro-inputs distribution system, with very few agriculture supply shops in rural areas. The few inputs that are commercially available are found in distant urban centers, inaccessible to most farmers.

Resilient Agricultural Markets Activity (RAMA)

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Rural livelihoods in Mozambique are primarily agriculturally based and climate dependent. Climate shocks will likely increase poverty and malnutrition for rural households, which are not currently resilient enough to withstand the effects of a changing climate. According to the Feed the Future Resilient Agricultural Markets Activity (RAMA) Framework, “Resilient Agricultural Markets Activity encompasses how agriculture affects and is affected by climate change and aligns this integration with food security objectives.

Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Countering Wildlife Trafficking

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Khetha – Protecting Wildlife, Benefitting Communities

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Wildlife crime is threatening both the black and white rhino and elephant populations in the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation area (GLTFCA), a transboundary area bordering Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.

Resilient Gorongosa

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Gorongosa National Park and the surrounding landscape provides ecosystem services of food, freshwater and fuelwood to communities who have experienced conflict, food insecurity, and Cyclone Idai of 2019.

Support to Conservation Partners in Natural Resource and Fire Management

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Mozambique’s rich biodiversity and natural resources have the potential to drive economic growth through increasing the tourism and extractive industries. Historically though the government has lacked the capacity and political will to effectively protect these resources from illegal activities and corruption.

USAID DISASTER RECOVERY CASH ASSISTANCE IN SOFALA

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Mozambique has long-standing, high levels of chronic malnutrition, affecting almost half of all children under the age of five. According to the latest Global Nutrition Report, approximately one third of all child deaths in Mozambique are linked to malnutrition and the prevalence of stunting in children under five is over 40%.

USAID Environmental Security and Resilience in Northern Mozambique (USAID ECOSMART-2)

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The Niassa Special Reserve (NSR) in northern Mozambique is one of Africa’s largest, wildest landscapes. In an area roughly the size of Switzerland, the NSR harbors the largest intact miombo woodland and some of Mozambique’s most significant population of lions, elephants, leopards, and wild dogs.

Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance

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Building Social Cohesion in Northern Mozambique

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Despite having significant economic potential in terms of natural resources and tourism, Cabo Delgado is one of the poorest regions in Mozambique and is a hub for wildlife, human and drug trafficking; it also has the highest illiteracy rate in the country, a history of economic marginalization and high unemployment rates.

Community Radio Assistance for Greater Empowerment of Mozambican Institutions (USAID CORAGEM)

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Community radios are a major information source in Mozambique’s rural areas.  A 2015 Eduardo Mondlane University study revealed that community radios can reach approximately 2/3 of the population, with the largest numbers of listeners concentrated in the two most populous provinces of Nampula and Zambézia.

Community Resilience and Youth Empowerment in Cabo Delgado

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The youth in Cabo Delgado are facing significant economic and social challenges due to recent natural and man-made disasters which culminated in a lack of economic opportunities, reduced access to skills development, lack of community experience and disruption in information and public services.

Strengthened Investigative Journalism in Natural Resources Management and Other Economic Governance Issues (USAID REAJIR)

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Mozambique stands poised to reap the benefits from an abundance of hydrocarbon, mineral, and other natural resources, yet the government faces challenges related to transparency, accountability, inclusion, and participation.

TV SURDO: Improving Inclusive Information and Advocacy

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In Mozambique people with disabilities (PWD) are routinely marginalized and discriminated against, particularly in rural areas. They often lack full access to education, health care, information and employment. In addition to practical barriers, prejudice and stigmatization make it even more difficult for Mozambicans with disabilities to maximize their contribution to society.  

USAID Local Governance Strengthening

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In 2018, Mozambican leaders amended the Constitution and legal framework to progressively decentralize provincial and district governance.

USAID Recovery Cabo Delgado

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Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s northernmost province, has enormous economic potential including natural gas reserves that could make it a leading natural gas exporter and a coastline attractive to tourism.

USAID Youth-Led Action for Peace (USAID Youth-Led)

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Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’s northernmost province, has enormous economic potential, including a coastline attractive to tourism and natural gas reserves that could make it a leading natural gas exporter.

Economic Growth and Trade

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Loan Portfolio Guarantee – Development Credit Authority

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Mozambique’s agricultural sector comprises an overwhelming majority of smallholder farmers. About 70 percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, which serves as the main economic sector in Mozambique (24 percent of GDP).

USAID Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub

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The USAID Southern Africa Trade and Investment Hub (USAID TradeHub) engages with partners across the region to increase sustainable economic growth, global export competitiveness, and trade in targeted Southern African countries.

USAID Supporting the Policy Enabling Environment for Development (USAID SPEED)

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A strong business enabling policy environment is critical to private sector competitiveness, attract investments, and create jobs. However, Mozambique ranks 135th (out of 190 countries) in the World Bank’s 2019 Doing Business Report and is not keeping pace with other countries in implementing reforms.

USAID/DFC Partnership with ABSA Bank to Increase Access to Finance in the Agricultural Sector

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The agriculture sector in Mozambique is a leading driver of Mozambique’s economy, contributing about one quarter of its GDP and employing 80 percent of the national workforce.

Education

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Education Sector Support Fund (FASE)

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Through USAID, the United States will contribute $700,000 to support expanded bilingual education by providing increased teaching and materials in the home languages of children.  In Mozambique, only 1 in 10 children speak Portuguese at home (INE, 2018), with much lower rates in rural and poorer areas.  Evidence shows that children learn to read faster when they are taught in a language they know and understand well. The MINEDH wishes to extend the USAID bilingual education approach to students in grades 1- 6, using USAID-supplied student books and teacher manuals nationwide.

Improving Learning Outcomes in Primary Education (SABER)

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Mozambique teaches ever greater numbers of children in its primary schools, but survey results indicate continuing obstacles to meeting literacy goals. 

USAID Advancing Girls’ Education (USAID AGE)

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Despite Mozambique’s “Education for All'' policy, school enrolment and attendance rates for girls remain low. More than half of Mozambican girls drop out of school by the fifth grade, only 1 percent attend college, and illiteracy rates for women are double those of men.

USAID Apoiar a Ler!

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Primary school students in Nampula Province are not gaining the basic skills needed to progress in their school careers, which impacts their future ability to secure economic stability and fully participate in society. Only slightly more than one-third of students have obtained a basic level of reading, writing and math prior to leaving school. Two primary causes of this problem are poor quality of instruction and an insufficient quantity of classroom instruction time.

USAID Community Engagement in Bilingual Education

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Mozambique has made remarkable progress expanding access to primary education. From 1975 to 2018, the number of primary schools increased from 1,000 to 12,768, and enrollment has more than tripled to over 6.5 million students currently.

USAID COMMUNITY LIBRARIES PROGRAM (CLP)

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The overall primary school completion rate in Mozambique is an alarmingly low 15% through grade 7 (30% in  urban areas; 7% in rural areas). The overall literacy for Mozambicans over 15 years old is 58% and only 45% for females specifically. Completion rates have stagnated within the last 3 years due to inadequate infrastructure, poor teaching methodologies, limited instruction and time in school and high absenteeism among students, teachers and school administrators.

USAID Higher Education for Career Development Initiative

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Mozambique is entering a demographic transition with a working-age population that is rapidly expanding. Youth unemployment represents a sizable economic loss due to unrealized human resources and foregone tax revenues which contribute to creating a tax burden in future years. Broadening education and training opportunities to youth will enhance their employability and the country’s overall competitiveness and economic growth.

Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment

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Gender Equality & Female Empowerment

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Mozambique ranked 181st out of 188 countries in the 2015 UNDP Human Development Index, and 139th out of 159 countries in the UNDP Gender Inequality Index. Extreme poverty and the HIV/AIDS epidemic have contributed to the precarious status of women and girls in the country.

Global Health

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Hiv Key And Priority Populations Local Activity (PASSOS+)

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The HIV Key and Priority Populations program, known as USAID PASSOS+, aims to improve health and HIV outcomes among KPPs in Mozambique. A local organization, Centro Internacional de Saúde Reproductiva em Moçambique (ICRH-M) will lead the project, in conjunction with other partners. Working in close coordination with the Ministry of Health and the National AIDS Council (CNCS), ICRH-M and its partners will train healthcare stakeholders at the provincial, district, facility and community levels. The goal is to provide quality services that can be scaled-up, through improved referrals and linkages across community and clinic-based service providers.

Adapting and Modifying Optimized Sample Transport Routes for Achieving Impact (USAID AMOSTRA)

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USAID’s Adapting and Modifying Optimized Sample Transport Routes for Achieving Impact (AMOSTRA) project aims to improve laboratory specimen collection and transportation systems in Mozambique for efficient diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of diseases. Activities strive to ensure that specimen samples are effectively transported to referral laboratories and results are returned to health care providers in a safe and timely manner. AMOSTRA works to build the capacity of the local private transport sector to operate a cost-effective specimen referral system throughout Sofala, Tete, Niassa, Manica, Inhambane, Gaza, Maputo city and Maputo Provinces.

Central Contraceptives Procurement (CCP)

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USAID’s Central Contraceptives Procurement (CCP) project provides funds to purchase high-quality contraceptives and family planning commodities. These include injectables, implants, intrauterine devices and oral contraceptives. The project aims to save lives and increase health outcomes by supporting increased use of modern contraceptives by Mozambicans who specifically want to avoid pregnancy.

Demographic and Health Survey Support (DHS-8)

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USAID’s Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program serves to collect demographic and health data. The program aims to improve the collection, analysis, and dissemination of population, health, and nutrition data and to facilitate use of these data for planning, policy-making, and program management. Data generated by these surveys enables countries to identify and prioritize development targets, monitor progress towards Sustainable Development Goals, and measure the impact of programming.

Efficiencies for Clinical HIV Outcomes (ECHO)

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USAID’s ECHO program, in partnership with the government of Mozambique, works to expand targeted HIV testing and treatment at 148 health facilities across Sofala, Manica, Tete and Niassa provinces. The project provides technical assistance, deploying hundreds of health workers, community workers, and data analysts to sites with poor performance history. Program’s activities include training government health workers, giving grants to community outreach organizations, and supporting the government to strengthen crucial laboratory, transport, and information systems.

Fighting Malaria With Social And Behavioral Change

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Malaria is a major killer in Mozambique and, despite years of effort, it has proved difficult to fight. In 2022, malaria accounted for approximately 24 percent of all outpatient consultations, with over 12 million cases diagnosed. From 2018 to 2022, the number of reported malaria cases nationwide increased each year, with the exception of 2021, when a slight reduction of cases was observed, likely related to the COVID-19 epidemic.

Health Policy Plus: Mozambique

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The health sector in Mozambique is faced with multiple financing challenges, limited domestic resources, plateauing donor support and increasing absolute level of out-of-pocket expenditures. This contributes to limiting access to care for people in need.  Palladium and its partners support Mozambican partners and stakeholders to improve the enabling environment for HIV, Family Planning and Reproductive Health (FP/RH), and maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and the Palladium/Health Policy Project (HPP), 2010 –2015 collaborated with USAID and the Mozambican Ministry of Health (MISAU) on a program that supported costing of Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCAH) programs.

Improved Family Planning Initiative (USAID IFPI)

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USAID’s Improved Family Planning Initiative works to improve maternal and child health by increasing access to and use of voluntary family planning services. Outreach efforts aim to provide information regarding family planning options and strive to dispel myths around the use of contraception and other components of family planning. The program’s activities focus on reaching women with a particularly high unmet need for family planning, including postpartum women, post-abortion women, women living with HIV, adolescents girls, orphans and vulnerable children.

Integrated Family Planning Program (IFPP)

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High fertility rates presents a serious health threat in Mozambique, with the total fertility rate varying from 4 to 8 with an average of 6 children per woman (DHS 2011). According to the National Malaria and HIV Indicator Survey 2015 (IMASIDA), the modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) is 25% (34% urban and 22% rural) with a high demand for modern methods of 50% and unmet need of 23%. 

Intermediary Warehouse Implementation, Central And Intermediate Warehouses Management And Accountability Project (CMAM)

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To improve the national supply chain, this activity provides technical support and funding to increase CMAM’s capacity to implement reforms in the intermediary warehouses of the Health Ministry’s central medical stores. This includes supporting their operations and strengthening their warehouse management and accountability practices.

WASH - Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

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National Rural Water and Sanitation Program (PRONASAR)

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The Transformation of Rural Water and Sanitation Hygiene Service Delivery in Mozambique programme (T-WASH) aims to drive sustainable improvements to WASH service delivery in poor local communities through building capacity of national systems and incentivizing improved service delivery at the local level by instituting a set of performance indicators linked to financial support.

USAID Support to the National Rural Water and Sanitation Program (PRONASAR)

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The support provided to PRONASAR  has three main components: (i) Support to sub-national government WASH service delivery entities under PRONASAR with funds deposited in an off-budget (Off-CUT) account and disbursements managed by a provisional Fund Manager; (ii) Technical assistance/capacity building delivered through a Capacity Building Agent to support national and sub-national capacity of the GRM; and (iii) An Independent Monitoring Partner for independent verification of results against the agreed performance indicators for PRONASAR. 

USAID TRANSFORM WASH 

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Transform WASH is a five-year $18.6 million program that supports the Government of Mozambique’s efforts to strengthen water sector governance, increase water access, and accelerate households’ adoption of key hygiene behaviors. It builds on previous USAID programs, such as Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Financing (WASH-FIN), Supporting the Policy Environment for Economic Development (SPEED+), and Strengthening Communities through Integrated Programming (SCIP), and complements current programming.

Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in Health Centers

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WASH in Health Centers activity works with decentralized government partners to improve the quality of water and sanitation in health facilities. The activity funds repairs, extensions or construction of water and sanitation systems based on assessments by qualified engineers. Local private sector contractors perform the work. The activity also supports the increased use of key hygiene behaviors through the improved health center protocols on hygienic infection control behaviors.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Finance (WASH-FIN) Mozambique

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WASH-FIN provides technical assistance and capacity building to government entities for improving water and sewage services in small towns and rural growth centers. The activity supports small water service providers with access to financing and training that enables them to invest in improving their service quality in areas near municipalities. It supports the establishment of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) by providing the state-owned water body with technical capacity building to review, negotiate, and manage sustainable PPP contracts.

Working in Crisis Response

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Disaster Response

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Mozambique is the third most vulnerable country in Africa to disaster risks (according to the UN’s Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction).  Frequent natural disasters disrupt livelihoods and food production of the most vulnerable people, undermining the fight against extreme poverty. 

Southern Africa Tropical Cyclones

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In late May, the UN and partner organizations increased the Tropical Cyclone Kenneth flash appeal from $85.2 million to $103.7 million to support the needs of cyclone- and drought-affected populations in Mozambique through June 2019.