Emergency Response to Flooding in Mozambique



Contract partner: WFP - World Food Programme Country: Mosambik Funding amount: € 300.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2007 End: 31.12.2008

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Overall goal


The Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) 10310.0 of the WFP is a programming framework for multi-sectoral activities in Southern Africa supporting food-insecure households affected by erratic climate and people affected by HIV/AIDS and extreme poverty. This PRRO encompasses safety-net programmes for vulnerable populations as well as therapeutic supplementary feeding for people susceptible to food shortages, food-for-work activities, vocational training and alternative income-creation support, as well as school feeding programmes.


As a result of severe flooding in the Zambezi basin and a cyclone impact in Inhambane province in Mozambique in February 2007, the PRRO 10310.0 is faced with additional requirements and potential pipeline constraints in Mozambique. The Ministry of Agriculture's Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) has issued a Post-Floods/Drought/Cyclone Action Plan in March 2007, which states that approximately 285,000 people in the flooded Zambezi River valley need food and agricultural implements for a period of four months due to loss of food reserves and first season crops, and approximately 183,000 people in the cyclone disaster area will need food assistance for a period of four months in order to bridge the time to a potential second season harvest in June-July.


The Austrian contribution will support PRRO 10310.0 in adapting to the new requirements arising from these natural disasters in Mozambique and enabling continued food aid in the affected areas. The Austrian funds are earmarked for local procurement and will have a distribution focus on the heavily affected Sofala province.

project number 2074-00/2007
source of funding OEZA
sector Nahrungsmittelhilfe/ Programme zur Nahrungsmittelsicherheit
tied
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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