ICDP - Improving institutional and community capacities for inclusive and gender-sensitive disaster preparedness in Inhambane and Sofala



Contract partner: Arbeitsgemeinschaft - ICDP Country: Mosambik Funding amount: € 2.000.000,00 Project start: 01.11.2021 End: 31.10.2024

Short Description:

Overall goal


The ICDP project’s objective is to reduce the impact of climate-related risks for target communities by strengthening their resilience in an inclusive and gender responsive way and building the institutional disaster risk reduction (DRR) capacity of stakeholders.


Expected results


The project-outputs are:

1. Improved institutional capacity of disaster response stakeholders to prepare-, co-ordinate-, and promptly mobilise an inclusive response to disasters.;

2. Selected Communities in Inhambane and Sofala Provinces have strengthened their preparedness and resilience against natural hazards.

3. Gender equality and disability inclusion ensured within DRR.

4. Knowledge sharing, research and innovation on DRR and DI-DRR enhanced.

 


Target group / Beneficiaries


Direct target group: 5,835 staff, volunteers, community members in Inhambane and Sofala.

Indirect target group: 59, 780 community members in Inhambane and Sofala.

The project will be implemented locally by CVM and the Light for the World International country office. The project will take place in Govuro, Vilankulos and Mabote districts in Inhambane and in Buzi and Nhamatanda districts in Sofala.


Activities


Activities: OP1: Roll out EAPs; provide trainings in Water Rescue and First Aid; carry out blood donation campaigns; review the DRR framework regarding disability inclusion; ad-vocate for the inclusion and participation of PwD in all aspects of DRR. OP2: Provide trainings to LCRDMS; map PwD and form self-help groups; include PwD in VSLAs and IGAs OP 3: Conduct gender analysis, offer several gender-related trainings; carry out workshops on disability inclusion and DRR; recruit and train DIFs. OP4: Create and test innovative DI-DRR solutions, conduct research on EMS and First Aid.


Context


The Republic of Mozambique is a coastal country in south-eastern Africa. Mozambique remains one of the poorest and most underdeveloped countries in the world. Climate-change studies indicate an intensifying effect on both the magnitude and frequency of hydro-meteorological hazards in Mozambique.

project number 2639-00/2021
source of funding OEZA
sector Andere multisektorielle Maßnahmen
tied
modality Project-type interventions
marker Environment: 1, Climate change adaptation: 1, Gender: 1, Disaster risk reduction: 2, Inclusion: 1
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 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.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • 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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