Cabo Delgado JR 2021 Program (parent) SUMMARY:
The Cabo Delgado JR will be implemented through a consortium led by Plan and membered by CARE, Cordaid, Oxfam, SOS CV and Tearfund in addition to local implementing partners. This is a 6 month slow onset Acute Joint Response, starting from 14 May 2021, funded by MFA through the Dutch Relief Alliance with a budget of €3.000.000, proposing a multi-sector approach with holistic Shelter/NFIs, WASH, Food Security and Livelihoods (FSL), and Protection programs. The JR will be implemented in Cabo Delgado (Mozambique), being the province with the highest needs and will prioritise the following districts: Mecufi, Chiure, Metuge, Montepuez, and Ancuabe. The overarching objective of the JR is to provide 101,185 affected people with life-saving and life-sustaining goods and services committing itself to 3 strategic objectives set out in the Mozambique HRP 2021: to safe lives, to sustain lives, protection. Non-state armed groups (NSAG) have severely disrupted the lives of thousands of people in the northern districts of Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, since October 2017. The group, known in Mozambique as Ansar al-Sunna or Al-Shabab (but not related to the Somalia group) announced it aims to turn the oil-rich region into a caliphate (HRW, 2021). Following the escalation of the conflict in 2020, displacement surged rapidly. While the number of IDPs was still 110,000 in March 2020, in the same year at least 527,000 people were being displaced in October, of which 45% children (HRP 2021). The recent attack on Palma town (24 March 2021) has forced another 20,000 people to leave their homes and flee to the districts of Nangade, Mueda, Montepuez and Pemba districts (UNHCR 2021, April 2021), while tens of thousands more are thought to be displaced inside Palma district or on the move to safety (OCHA, April 2021). Fleeing from the geographically expanding beheadings, kidnappings and killings, 70% of the internally displaced people, of which the real number is likely to be higher, found refuge with host families in the southern and eastern districts of Cabo Delgado, as well as in the neighbouring Niassa and Nampula provinces. The DRA partners have designed their response with a multi-sector approach. Core activities include:

Food Security & Livelihoods: ensure 43,135 people are able to meet their basic food needs (FSC-I2) and are provided with resources to protect and start rebuilding their livelihoods (FSC-I1).

Shelter/ Non-Food Items: ensure that 4,500 people have access to dignified and safe shelter solutions (SHL-I1) and NFIs (SHL-I4), including the distribution of survival kits and family kits.

WASH: reach 57,935 individuals and ensure access to safe and sufficient water (WSH-I4), hygiene promotion and provision of soaps (WSH-I1), ensuring access to dignified, safe, clean and functional excreta disposal facilities (WSH-R2) and hygiene promotion (WSH-I6) through reaching people with awareness programming. 

Protection: reach 24,050 individuals and mainstream protection throughout the response, and also ensure people receive an appropriate response to protection risks (PRO-I2), are provided with information (PRO-I5), are reached by the implementation of specific GBV prevention measures (PRO-I11), UASC are specifically supported to address their various and complex needs (PRO-I8), and children receive support specific to their needs (PRO-I15).