WFP and partners initiate new strategic plan to combat hunger in Mozambique

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WFP and partners initiate new strategic plan to combat hunger in Mozambique

12:17 CAT | 14 Sep 2017

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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a five-year Country Strategic Plan (CSP) for Mozambique, designed to ensure that people have access to nutritious food and to help them become more resilient to the climate shocks to which Mozambique is increasingly prone.

The CSP for Mozambique – which represents a series of new strategic plans initiated by the WFP in countries around the world – is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda for 2030 aimed at transforming the planet into a place free of poverty and inequality. The product of two years of national consultations, the CSP fully supports Mozambique’s main national development priorities, including the 2015-19 Five-Year Government Plan.

“This Strategic Plan is an important milestone for the country,” said Karin Manente, WFP National Director in Mozambique. “It sets out the necessary steps for WFP to work with the government and other partners to address the key food security and nutrition challenges in Mozambique.”

In addition to ensuring that vulnerable people can meet their food and nutritional needs even in times of crisis, the CSP focuses on eradicating chronic malnutrition among children in areas of food insecurity and improving the livelihoods of small farmers.

Although Mozambique has achieved its Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of hungry people in the country, nearly a quarter of the population faces chronic food insecurity or malnutrition. The country remains one of the most disaster-prone in the world, highly vulnerable to extreme weather events that destroy infrastructure and restrict economic growth, hampering efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger.

While maintaining a strong capacity for humanitarian assistance, the WFP’s new plan for Mozambique focuses on supporting long-term resilience-building efforts, as well as strengthening national partnerships, systems and institutions needed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, in particular SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) by 2030.

The Country Strategic Plan for Mozambique, budgeted at US$167 million, was approved and came into force in July of this year.

The UN’s World Food Programme is the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, providing food aid in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and increase resilience. The WFP provides assistance to at least 80 million people in some 80 countries annually.

Source: UN World Food Programme (WFP)