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In Numbers
825,461 people* Assisted in May 2023
5,289 MT of food distributed
US$ 1.1 million in Cash-Based Transfers
US$ 64 million six-month (June – Nov 2023) net funding requirements
Emergency Response
Northern Mozambique displacement crisis
• Due to funding shortages and to meet rising needs, WFP has been distributing reduced food rations since April 2022. In February 2023, due to funding shortages, WFP was forced to put on hold distributions temporarily. During the May – June food distribution cycle, WFP has so far assisted 465,070 beneficiaries with reduced food rations.
• WFP has commenced distributions using Vulnerability Based Targeting (VBT) in 3 out of 9 districts in Cabo Delgado (Metuge, Namuno, and Montepuez). This exercise will gradually be expanded to other districts.
• WFP Mozambique has been facing severe funding shortages for emergency food assistance, nutrition programmes and UNHAS. WFP requires USD 64 million in total to continue supporting people across Mozambique over the next six months (June November 2023), with most of the additional funding needed to deliver life-saving humanitarian food assistance to conflictaffected populations in the country's north.