NGO Consortium to provide aid to 375,000 drought victims – Mozambique

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NGO Consortium to provide aid to 375,000 drought victims – Mozambique

8:16 CAT | 09 Nov 2016

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A new alliance of NGOs known as CHEMO (Humanitarian Consortium of Mozambique) intends to provide humanitarian aid to 375,000 people in the period from now until March 2017, as part of the efforts to minimise the effect of severe drought in the south and centre of the country.

CHEMO is a consortium set up last June by the NGOs World Vision-Mozambique and Food for the Hungry to provide humanitarian assistance to drought-stricken communities in Sofala and Tete. At the time, it was supporting 40,000 people.

The consortium has now been joined by German Agrarian Action, and a memorandum of understanding formalizing this coalition was signed in Maputo on Tuesday by the national directors of the three organisations, Caroline Peyre for German Agrarian Action, Mapanza Nkimilimba for Food for the Hungry, and Graham Strong for World Vision.

The donors of the three organisations have provided them with a budget of 23.5 million US dollars for humanitarian actions in the southern provinces of Inhambane and Gaza, and in Sofala, Zambezia and Tete in the central region.

According to Graham Strong the memorandum is valid until next March, but can be renewed after that date. The consortium will concentrate on food aid, but will also provide seeds and agricultural tools, and work on the areas of water and sanitation, protection, and nutrition.

After March, said Strong, the three organisations would decide whether their response had been appropriate or needs strengthening. “It may not be the same kind of response that we currently have”, he added, “but it could be done on a model of transition and rehabilitation”.

For her part, Caroline Peyre said the consortium will be a platform whereby the three organisations share and strengthen their technical capacities and skills in responding to emergencies.

The activities of the consortium rely on funding from, among others, the British and US governments, the European Union, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

Source: AIM