The United Nations World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.
Despite the gradual improvements in economic growth and poverty reduction in recent years, malnutrition continues to affect a large part of the population in Mozambique with one out of two children under-five stunted. Climate change and variability have a considerable impact on livelihoods, food security, and nutrition as seventy-percent of agricultural production is done by smallholder farmers in rural areas under rain-fed systems. Floods and drought are the principal climate hazards in Mozambique, with cyclones and tropical storms also a common occurrence. Mozambique is ranked 138th out of 189 countries on the gender equality index. Both women and men in rural areas are heavily affected by poverty, but in addition, women and girls also face restrictive gender norms and gender-based violence (GBV) is widespread.
The World Food Programme (WFP) country office in Mozambique is preparing to implement a stunting reduction project integrating multiple nutrition specific and sensitive interventions to address the determinants of malnutrition with a focus on women’s empowerment.
Women and adolescent girls’ empowerment enable improved nutritional diversity and reduced stunting among girls and boys under the age of five in the context of a changing climate. The outcomes are as follows:
Outcome 1: Improved availability, diversity, and consumption of nutritious food by women, adolescent girls, and children under-two through gender and nutrition sensitive house-hold and community assets creation and post-harvest loss trainings in Chemba district that contribute to climate risk management.
Outcome 2. Increased women’s and adolescent girl’s empowerment related to early marriage, sexual and reproductive health, and health seeking behaviours for basic childhood illnesses through intensive Social and Behaviour Change Communication targeted towards men, women, boys and girls.
There are three main activities planned to answer to the outcomes, namely Food Assistance for Assets (FFA), Post-Harvest Loss (PHL) and Social and Behaviour Change Communications (SBCC). The following program outputs and activities have been planned:
WFP Mozambique Country office is commissioning the baseline survey for the gender transformative and nutrition sensitive project implemented by WFP in the Chemba district of Sofala Province, Mozambique, as part of a multi-year evaluation that will involve end line survey and final evaluation in 2021 to assess the impact of the programme. The primary goal is to conduct a baseline survey collecting qualitative and quantitative data prior to project implementation to track the project’s achievements, monitor progress and inform setting of project targets. The baseline therefore will provide the first round of data collection for the implementation of the impact evaluation.
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