Projekte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Projektziel

UNFPA's programme in Mozambique focuses on delivering life-saving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) services for the most vulnerable women and girls in Northern Mozambique.

Erwartete Ergebnisse

1. Ensure continuity of life-saving sexual and reproductive health services for displaced and vulnerable women and girls in host communities in northern Mozambique.

2. Ensure continuity of gender-based violence prevention, mitigation, and response services in northern Mozambique.

3. Respond to COVID-19 and mitigate its secondary impacts on women and girls in northern Mozambique.

Zielgruppe

With Austria's contribution of EUR 1 Million, an estimated 41,250 women and girls from displaced and host communities, thereof 8,250 are adolescent girls (10 - 14 years of age) and 33,000 are women of reproductive age (15 - 49 years).

Government Partner are the Provincial Directorates of Health (DPS), Provincial Directorate of Gender, Child, and Social Affairs (DPGCAS). Local implementing partners are: Amodefa, Fundação para o Desenvolvimento da Comunidade (FDC), and Coalizão.

Activities will be implemented in Cabo Delgado, Niassa, and Nampula Provinces in Mozambique.

Maßnahmen

Activities may include, among others:

- 10,000 women and girls received life-saving SRH and clinical GBV services through temporary clinics in health facilities and IDP resettlement sites.

- 5,000 women and girls received emergency obstetric and neonatal care through supported health facilities.

- 10 Health Facilities are better equipped to provide comprehensive SRH services through new medical equipment and supplies, including post-rape kits and COVID-19 infection prevention and control (IPC) supplies.

- 4 mobile and semi-temporary structures (caravans/containerised/prefabricated units, mobile medical trucks, and tents) have been installed and equipped to provide essential reproductive, maternal, and neonatal health services, including COVID-19 prevention control materials and supplies.

- Information, education, and communication materials have been disseminated through available channels on issues related to SRH, GBV, and COVID-19.

- 6. 50 health workers have improved their technical capacity to provide life-saving

sexual and reproductive health care following training, ongoing orientation, and mentorship.

- 30 Government and Civil Society Organisation staff are trained on GBV and referral pathways.

- 3,500 women and girls have received COVID-19-adapted female Dignity Kits and are better equipped to look after their immediate feminine hygiene and personal health.

- 1,500 women and girls have received GBV psychosocial support and case management and have been empowered with vocational and entrepreneurship skills at women and girl safe spaces.

- 5 safe spaces are established, equipped, and supported to provide GBV case management, psychosocial support, and vocational skills training to attending women and girls.

- 20 case workers and managers have improved technical capacity to provide livesaving case management and referral services for GBV survivors.

Hintergrundinformation

Insecurity in Cabo Delgado province has continued to escalate as a result of continued attacks by Non-State Armed Groups (NSAG) in the province, with the numbers of displaced people (IDP) increasing by almost 100% every three months. According to the latest IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), the insecurity in Cabo Delgado has so far displaced 527,975 people. While most of the people have been displaced within the province, a significant number have moved to neighboring provinces of Nampula and Niassa, further expanding the geographical scope of the humanitarian crisis.The displacements have led to serious disruption of livelihoods, exacerbating pre-existing poverty and vulnerabilities including leaving women further exposed to the risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV). In the districts of displacement, the attacks by the NSAGs have led to massive destruction of infrastructure with the populations left behind remaining without access to basic services.

The provincial government in Cabo Delgado has been setting up IDP relocation sites but the rovision of services has seriously lagged behind. Lack of access to clean water, basic Health services, and sanitation facilities have led to disease outbreaks such as Cholera, with almost 3,000 cases now recorded in Cabo Delgado up to the last week of January 2021. Up to 70 % of displaced populations live with host communities, with the remaining 30% living in temporary and Government established IDP relocation sites.

UNFPA is leading and coordinating support to the national and provincial governments to respond to the sexual and reproductive health and gender-based violence needs of the affected populations in Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and Niassa, with responses targeting displaced and vulnerable women and girls in host communities.