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In Numbers
2,259 mt of food assistance distributed USD 3.9 million cash-based transfers made** USD 76 million six-month (June-December 2024) net funding requirements 503,655 people assisted in May 2024
Emergency Response
Northern Mozambique displacement crisis
• In May, WFP assisted 136,371 beneficiaries, reaching 75,801 beneficiaries through regular distributions and 60,550 beneficiaries through emergency food rations due to displacements from recent attacks in Chiure, Cabo Delgado. Around 6,500 individuals were reached under the Joint Response Plan involving UNICEF and IOM.
• WFP was forced to suspend operations in the Macomia district due to a rise in conflict.
Climate shocks
• WFP continues to refine its El Niño drought response strategy, working together with the National Institute of Disaster Risk Management and Reduction (INGD) and in collaboration with other partners.
Nutrition
• In May 2024, under the part of the Nutritional Rehabilitation Programme (PRN), 1,686 children under the age of five received readyto-use supplementary foods, and 1,239 pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls received Super Cereals to manage moderate and severe acute malnutrition in 111 health facilities in Cabo Delgado and Nampula.
• On 29 of May, the second phase of the GTNS project was launched in Beira, with the participation of representatives from WFP,
Government, and Austrian cooperation representatives. The project held its first workshop to discuss and approve the GTNS 2.0 activities and work plan.
• WFP will be expanding the support to Integrated Mobile Brigades to all district in Cabo Delgado, following the recently received contribution from Japan. These mobile brigades provide communities with access to health services in remote and hard to reach areas.
Climate Change Adaptive Food Systems
• Training sessions on post-harvest management were conducted in Tete and Zambézia as part of the Scaling-Up of the Zero Food Loss Initiative in Mozambique, reaching 3,271 (50 % women) smallholder farmers.
• Under the Beyond Cotton Project, 507 kg of cotton and 958 kg of food crops were produced in Manica and Tete. Three associations were trained in savings and loans, with a total of 125 smallholder farmers (60% women) participating in the activities. In addition, jute bags were distributed to the associations to facilitate storage.