Cabo Delgado ACM Joint Response Since Oct. 2017, insurgents have carried out increasingly frequent and intense attacks in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique. In 2020 the violence escalated and the number of IDPs increased from 110.000 in March 2020 to almost 700.000 by April 2021. The insurgents use extreme violence and many people are severely traumatized, arriving after a dangerous journey.  They had to leave everything behind and many have lost family members.
According to the HRP, 1.3 mln people (IDPs and Host) need HA. IDPs lack safe and dignifying shelter and are arriving in communities with inadequate WASH, putting pressure on limited WASH services already available. The lack of WASH is a public health risk affecting PLW and children under 5 disproportionately and is a protection concern for women and girls, increasing the risk on GBV. Food insecurity increased as families fled their homes and crops, leaving 950,000 people food insecure (HRP 2021).  Around 270,000 IDPs have settled in Pemba and surrounding districts like Mecufi. In Mecufi, 4,000 IDPs (and increasing) plus host communities are in urgent need of shelter, food and WASH, as Caritas assessment shows. Although the govt creates sites where an IDP HH is given a plot of land, these open fields are without any infrastructure. People don’t have seeds and tools to grow their vegetables and as they already exhausted their coping mechanisms, they need food now. Conflict and displacement have resulted in rapidly increased Shelter, WASH and food needs as confirmed by Caritas’ rapid gap analysis. With shelter already covered by C-M, we will address the urgent food and WASH needs with the main objective to save the lives of 29,055 IDPs and host communities.
Food: To address people’s immediate food needs, 811 HH will receive food kits comprised of rice (25kg), maize meal (25kg), beans (7kg), salt (1kg) and vegetable oil (2L). The kit is distributed on a monthly basis for 3 months. For the longer-term food needs, and to improve dietary diversion and nutrition, each HH receives seeds & tools for small scale vegetable farming (vegetable seeds, catana, hoe, watering can), incl. training. Vegetable seeds can be planted year-round. 
WASH: To reduce public health risks, 1001 HH will receive hygiene and dignity kits and WASH NFIs. Hygiene promotion will be done using door-to door campaign. Shared latrines are not culturally accepted and therefore 387 individual latrines will be constructed by the HH, using material provided by C-M and compliant with SPHERE. The location of the latrine is selected in consultation with women and PSN to ensure their safe access. Those HH unable to provide labour for the construction will be supported by the community through Cash for Work. C-M will conduct construction training and supervision. Clean water supply will be ensured for 400 HH through drilling of 2 boreholes for the IDPs and rehabilitation of 2 water points for the host communities, in line with SPHERE standards. Additionally, we will complementary provide WASH services in the CFSs of SOS. 
To improve quality programming, distribution points will be safe (crowd control) and near beneficiaries’ plots, and times will be convenient to reduce protection risks. FSL and WASH cluster standards and guidelines will be followed. C-19 awareness and prevention will be integrated, including safety and protection measures for beneficiaries and staff. IDPs in resettlement camps and the most vulnerable host families close to the reselttment camps