Mozambique: 2025 Humanitarian Response (Conflict), as 30 November 2025 [EN/PT]

By the end of November 2025, approximately 1.03 million people had received assistance out of a targeted population of 1.1 million; however, the overall level of assistance remains insufficient to meet needs at scale. Compared to the same period in 2024, when 1.82 million people were assisted, this represents a 43 per cent reduction in assistance delivery, significantly limiting coverage and depth of support for affected populations.

Most of the current outreach is attributed to the Food Security and Livelihoods partners, who have reached 543,000 people. Food distributions are, however, reduced to every two months and cover only 39 per cent of caloric needs. The agriculture and livelihoods component has reached 87,000 people. Excluding food assistance, the number of people reached drops to 649,000. Within this, 692,000 people have received multisectoral support across Health, WASH, and Shelter, while 560,000 children accessed Education, Nutrition, and Child Protection services.

Humanitarian funding available has halved compared to 2024. In 2025 $97 million have been contributed against requirements of $352 million, half of the 2024 funding. National NGOs and government entities together now account for nearly half of all interventions. Relief aid is concentrated in districts facing severity 4 needs (485,000 people or 99 per cent of the target), followed by severity 3 areas (508,000 of 644,000 targeted), and severity 2 zones (30,000 people of 45,000 people targeted). When food assistance is excluded, humanitarian programmes in severity 4 districts reached only 167,010 people. All clusters remain severely underfunded, with available resources ranging from 5 to 32 per cent of requirements. The 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) sought $352 million to assist 1.3 million people affected by conflict across 15 districts in Cabo Delgado.

The plan prioritized two approaches: rapid mobile response teams to address acute needs of newly displaced people and the provision of multi-sectoral assistance IDPs in Sites and Urban/Peri Urban Settings, rural IDPs and affected people.

Due to the dramatic drop in funding, the 2025 HNRP was hyper-prioritised in March with the districts of Macomia, Muidumbe, Nangade, Quissanga identified as highest priority. The granular analysis of the response in these districts indicates that assistance remains heavily concentrated in Food Security, with limited delivery of multi-sectoral support.

Multi-sectoral support for urban/peri-urban IDPs, rural IDPs, and at-risk populations, through food, shelter, health, education, agriculture, and livelihoods interventions continues. The HNRP is complemented by the Mozambique Drought Appeal (Aug 2024–Dec 2025) and the Tropical Cyclones Flash Appeal (Jan–September 2025), including outbreaks (measles and cholera) reflecting how overlapping crises continue to drive humanitarian needs.

The humanitarian team urges donors to step up financial support, especially with the current rainy and cyclonic season, which is generating new displacements and vulnerability. For further context on the consequences of underfunding in Mozambique, please see: https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/mozambique/mozambique-cost-inaction-july-2025.