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Reports have suggested that donations destined for the victims of Cyclone Idai have been stolen or diverted. The INGC has announced that it will strengthen oversight of food distribution to communities affected by the cyclone.
In the face of the allegations and a number of reports that donations meant for victims of Cyclone Idai have been stolen or diverted – although there is no record of arrests in relation to this – the Mozambican National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC) has announced that it will strengthen oversight of distribution to communities affected by Cyclone Idai.
INGC Director General Augusta Maita has acknowledged that some employees of her institution have been facilitating the diversion of goods meant for those in accommodation centres in Sofala province.
Lack of seriousness
Speaking at a press conference, Maita regretted a lack of professionalism on the part of some INGC personnel involved in the distribution of aid to those staying at the accommodation centres, but emphasised that it was a very complex situation.
“Complaints will continue as long as we cannot optimise what we are doing. As you can imagine, this is an very complex process. We have been deploying everything possible to ensure that mechanisms work and products arrive, but of course some things that are not within our control may happen. What we have been calling on society to do is help us monitor, help us control, help us oversee and give us concrete information about whether or not there is evidence that people are stealing, so that we take action,” she said.
Independent donation management
Complaints from displaced people about the lack of food at accommodation centres came to the attention of President Filipe Nyusi during his visit to Beira last week.
At the time, President Nyusi called for the creation of an independent entity for the management of donations.
In response, an independent commission was created and has been in force since Monday of this week (01-04). The commission will lead the process of distributing food to the displaced victims of the cyclone and floods over the next three months. This commission integrates a logistics company contracted in Beira and the World Food Program (WFP) working in coordination with the National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC).
“We are already working with WFP in this sense and we have a local entity contracted from the city of Beira that is carrying out this process in coordination with the WFP.”
International experts in Beira
Following the destruction caused by Cyclone Idai in Sofala on March 15, a group of international experts arrived in Beira on Monday in Beira to assess the level of destruction in the city.
The group travelled to the region at the invitation of Beira Municipal Council in the expectation that they will create a database of the destruction caused by Cyclone Idai, facilitating investment in priority areas.
The death toll from Cyclone Idai and the floods that followed has risen to 598, Mozambican authorities said on Tuesday. The number of families affected by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique now stands at 195,287.
Those affected include the many who have lost their homes and need food or some other form of assistance.
UPDATE: People in #Mozambique still need support.
In some places, the only way to reach communities affected by #CycloneIdai is by air.
Here, an air drop of food is being carried out in #Buzi. pic.twitter.com/FCetmOXXtR
— IFRC Intl. Federation #RedCross #RedCrescent (@ifrc) April 2, 2019
What a day! @WFP’s team in #Mozambique has been busy loading food ? on #helicopters ? from Beira to different places in Nhamatanda where lands were flooded after #cycloneldai, destroying crops. pic.twitter.com/yhkBIlhdy8
— WFP_Africa (@WFP_Africa) April 2, 2019
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