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The European Union (EU) will spend 22.2 million Euros supporting child nutrition, water and sanitation programmes in Mozambique, an initiative partnered by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), announced on Friday.
A statement released by UNICEF said the program would benefit 570,000 children under the age of two in the provinces of central Zambezia and Nampula in the north.
“We are confident that this support will increase mobilisation and political commitment to nutrition,” Geert Anckaert, head of Good Governance and Social Sectors Section, said.
Mozambique UNICEF representative Marcoluigi Corsi said that EU support would help the government and its partners provide nutrition services for children under five, pregnant and lactating women.
“This generous contribution from the European Union will help the government and partners to improve services provide and mount interventions in nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene,” Corsi said.
UNICEF will channel EUR 6.9 million into the initiative.
The chronic malnutrition rate in Zambézia province is 41 percent, and 50 percent in Nampula. At just 26 percent, Maputo has the lowest rate in the country.
UNICEF points out that Mozambique has made progress on economic growth and reducing under-five mortality, but chronic malnutrition rates remain high.
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