Mozambique: Children, Food Security and Nutrition in Mozambique

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Reduce Child Mortality

JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS

Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNICEF, WFP, FAO, WHO
Main Achievements
  • Urban gardening reintroduced in poor neighborhoods has improved nutritional status.
  • Supplementary feeding programmes have been scaled up and capacity built to manage severe acute malnutrition.
  • Nutrition surveillance system supported.

Rising food prices are expected to push vulnerable households in Mozambique towards coping strategies that can have irreversible impoverishing impact on families and children. The joint programme consists of a short-term and a medium-long term intervention to mitigate the impact of the rising food prices on nutritional outcomes.

Short term interventions will build on already existing programmes - such as supplementary feeding programme, management of severe malnutrition, improved nutrition education programmes, etc. - by strengthening and scaling them up.

Medium and long term interventions will aim at providing technical support to the Ministry of Health in its nutrition data collection efforts, building capacity of the Ministry of Health for continuous monitoring, and regular evaluation of the intervention results. This joint programme will directly support the Government of Mozambique to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals 1 and 4.

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