WFP - World Food Programme

Purpose

P001930001: The project seeks to improve access to primary education and support the learning outcomes of primary school students in the five most food-insecure districts of Tete province, including two districts impacted by Cyclone Idai in March 2019. Project activities include: (1) providing daily nutritious school meals for up to 78,000 primary school students (of which 50% are girls) at up to 60 schools; (2) providing monthly take-home food rations for families; (3) incentivizing up to 8,000 adolescent girls to stay in school through the provision of menstrual hygiene care kits and informational materials aimed at improving sexual and reproductive health and addressing gender-based violence and early marriage; and (4) providing training to 2,000 women and men members of school feeding committees on basic procurement and financial accounting. The project provides local women’s agricultural associations with support to attain legal recognition and training on agricultural and entrepreneurship. Working with the government of Mozambique, the project develops the tools and systems for the expansion of a gender-sensitive National School Feeding Program. P001930002: This project supports activities that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. This project aims to pivot programming activities during school closures to minimize the impact of health and economic-related shocks resulting from limited mobility and loss of income felt by students and their families. This project modified its modality from on-site school meals to take-home rations for students and their families, preserving nutritional status and educational outcomes. Food baskets continue to support 41,000 children initially targeted by the project to maintain distance-learning and help create favourable conditions for their return once schools reopen. The proposed approach supports 28,700 households over three months with a minimum nutritional and caloric intake. Food baskets are used as a platform to increase communication around COVID-19 prevention measures, such as hygiene and social distancing. The project also reached the Cabo Delgado province, currently experiencing a humanitarian crisis resulting from an increasing number of internally displaced persons and rising COVID-19 rates.