FLOODS EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN ZAMBEZIA AND NIASSA 2015 As a result of a very intense rain in the country and in the upstream neighbour countries over the past weeks, the country has experienced a rise in the level of the main rivers causing a severe flooding in the Provinces of Tete, Manica, Nampula, Niassa, Cabo Delgado and Zambezia, with major impact in the Provinces of Zambezia, Nampula and Niassa. After an institutional red alert has been declared by the Council of Ministers on 12 January, around of 144, 330 people (32,285 families) have been affected, and approximately 11,000 houses have been counted as destroyed, access to some of the districts is conditional and the link between the central and northern of the country is interrupted.

The emergency response project focus is intervention in 4 districts from Zambezia province (Nicuadala, Namacurra, Gurue and Mocuba) and one district from Niassa (Cuamba) and plan to benefict 1.600 people, distributed in 1.200 people in Zambezia and 200 people in Niassa, benefiting the most vulnerable groups, initially indicated as elderly, children, pregnant women, women headed households, disables, chronic patients and other identified groups living under extreme poverty conditions.
Due to scale of this emergency, others intervenient such as Government authorities, UN agencies, national and international NGO’s, Civil Society organizations and private sectors have been mobilizing efforts to address the needs of the affected population,  but these have intervene in the response of the emergency. World Vision, Oxfam, FGH, FHI, Save the Children, Concern, UNICEF, UNFPA, FAO, WFP, UNDP, Red Cross, TCE, CUCUMI are some of the mainly organization involved in the response operation notwithstanding the great evident needs that are still not being addressed.

To accomplish the goal set in this project, this will be implemented by two diocesan caritas, Caritas Diocesana de Quelimane and Caritas Diocesana de Niassa with management, support and coordination of the Secretariat of Caritas Mocambiana. CAFOD has main partner will provide support through his team in Mozambique, coordinating, advising and supporting on technical and administrative issues, ensuring good collaboration and coordination, reinforcing in this fashion the spirit of good partnership.

The total cost of this intervention is USD120.000, this amount was determined by the needs identified in the field and partners capacity to run an emergency response project with minimum external partners’ intervention and take in account the high logistic costs involved. CAFOD has partners will not be able alone to funding the entire needs of the project but have agreed to contribute with USD 60.000 to minimise the suffering of these who were severely affected by this emergency.  

This project may face some milestone related to high logistic costs involved, which are merely associated with long distances; poor infrastructures which conditions are currently exacerbated due to floods, access to some areas are limited or very difficult. Financial issues have to be followed up closely, providing the necessary training and support to the partners to ensure that financial request meet the standards according to the CAFOD’s procedures. Coordination is an important component to ensure effective implementation and appropriate report of this intervention so in this sense, this has to be arranged by the Secretariat with support provided by CAFOD