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In Numbers
1,268,593 people assisted in October 2021
3,589 mt of food assistance dispatched
USD 1.8 million cash-based transfers made
US$ 180 m six months (November 2021 – April 2022) net funding requirements, representing 79% of total
Operational Updates
• WFP was able to provide life-saving food assistance to 935,000 people in northern Mozambique in October 2021. Due to limited resources,
WFP continues to provide half monthly rations equivalent to 39 per cent of the daily kcals.
• To ensure that WFP is reaching the most vulnerable people in northern Mozambique, WFP is conducting a vulnerability-based targeting exercise covering internally displaced people (IDPs) and host communities which is expected to be concluded in February 2022.
• Acknowledging that development projects are fundamental for the long-term stability and peace in northern Mozambique, WFP has started to gradually transition from life-saving food assistance to recovery and resilience activities. A total of five livelihoods projects are being implemented in five districts of Cabo Delgado and will benefit around 10,000 households (50,000 people), covering both IDPs (80%) and host communities (20%).
• In October 2021, the WFP-led United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) transported 620 passengers from different humanitarian organizations and 6.9 mt of light humanitarian relief items.
• WFP requires USD 89.9 million to sustain the northern Mozambique operation until June 2022. If additional funds are not received in a timely manner, a pipeline break is expected in April 2022.
Social Protection
• WFP and UNICEF are working with the Government to support the implementation of the national Social Protection response to COVID19 (cash transfers to urban and peri-urban populations living in areas with high food insecurity levels).
• By the end of October, around 16,000 families (80,000 people) received cash entitlements in Tete Province; and over 9,000 families received a cellphone and had their M-Pesa accounts opened in Milange district, Zambezia province. Distributions in Zambezia to around 84,000 families (420,000 people) are expected to start in November. All disbursements will be made through mobile money (MPESA).
• WFP continues to support national institutions for using social protection programmes to respond to natural shocks and seasonal food insecurity, hence supporting long-term resilience building. WFP in cooperation with the Government and the World Bank organized the second edition of the National Social Resilience Dialogue in October 2021.
School Feeding
• WFP currently assists nearly 350,000 children with school meals through various programmes, including more than 127,000 primary school children under the National School Feeding Programme (PRONAE), under the leadership of the Ministry of Education and Human Development.
• In Tete province, a total of 47,000 children benefit from school feeding thanks to the support of Canada, while in Nampula province, over 28,000 students receive school meals supported by a partnership with the private sector.
• WFP also reached over 91,000 students in October 2021 in Cabo Delgado, Manica, Sofala and Zambezia provinces as part of the emergency school feeding programme funded by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Lastly, a new school-feeding programme funded by Germany was launched in Cabo Delgado and Nampula to support through take-home-rations about 52,000 children affected by the crisis in the north.