Cabo Delgado Joint Response 2021 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. Since October 2017, NSAGs have severely disrupted the lives of thousands of people in Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique. Multiple towns and villages were attacked throughout the last four years, in which people were brutally killed and their houses left looted or burned.  
Following the escalation of the conflict in 2020, displacement has 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 (45% children). From October 2020 onwards, the violence in Cabo Delgado intensified, resulting in the displacement  of 670,000 people by the end of 2020. 70% of the internally displaced people has found refuge with host families in Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula provinces. The remaining 30% reside in settlements and collective shelters or are still searching for a place to shelter.  
The conflict has disrupted agricultural activity and livelihoods, protection risks for the most vulnerable people have risen and the situation is compounded by tropical storms Chalane and Eloise, which hit three provinces at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021. 1.3 million people are now in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. To holistically support the most vulnerable and at-risk children, Plan will provide a comprehensive CPiE intervention targeting 5,000 children (2400 boys, 2600 girls), adhering to SPHERE and CP minimum standards by amongst others:

-Establishment of community-based CP mechanisms in 5 resettlement sites hosting IDPs: 5 Child Protection Committees and 175 community members. This includes training on CP issues as identified by community members or via protection monitoring, Child Safeguarding &PSEA, and provision of IEC material.
-Capacity strengthening of formal CP system: District Services of Health Woman and Social Action, Assistance office of Family and minor victims of domestic violence and district attorney office.
-Identification, documentation and case management of 60 UASCs with family-based alternative care & FTR referral.
-Safe, inclusive, age and gender sensitive daily activities to 400 children in 5 CFS, with structured and free play, life skills sessions for at risk adolescents, and parenting programs. PSS will be provided as a community-based approach and CFSs will be established in collaboration with the government, community leaders and other partners (CARE) in Chiure.
-MHM support to 1000 vulnerable adolescent girls Plan has been responding to the crisis in Nampula since July 2020, with a dedicated humanitarian response team. In Cabo Delgado, Plan has an established satellite office focusing on Protection, WASH, EiE & FSL response.

Protection activities will draw on resources and expertise from across Mozambique and broader Plan federation. CPiE activities will start immediately by conducting a rapid gender analysis, assessing the needs, risks and existing resources. Training of key community members, local authority representatives and DRA members will start within a month. Distribution of MHM items will take place following one month lead time for procurement. Plan will leverage existing partnerships with producers for quick and efficient delivery of kits and CFS equipment.

Capacity building, awareness-raising, and coordination will be ongoing from month 1 with CFS, PSS & case management activities in place by month 2 to allow time to train community volunteers, procure equipment and outreach. Plan will provide CPiE for 5,000 children (2400 boys, 2600 girls). Among the IDPs Plan will focus particularly on girls & boys at high risk, UASC, adolescent girls & children with disabilities. There haven’t been reports of tensions between IDPs and host communities. However, to ensure a conflict-sensitive approach, Plan targets both IDPs (75%) and host communities (25%). To holistically support the most vulnerable and at-risk children, Plan will provide a comprehensive CPiE intervention targeting 5,000 children (2400 boys, 2600 girls), adhering to SPHERE and CP minimum standards by:

-Establishment of community-based CP mechanisms in 5 resettlement sites, hosting IDPs: 5 Child Protection Committees and 175 community members (10 CFS facilitators, 25 Case workers, 50 PSS animators, foster families, 20 teachers, 10 community leaders and 3 Child Clubs). This includes training on CP issues as identified by community members or via protection monitoring, Child Safeguarding &PSEA, and provision of IEC material.
-Capacity strengthening of formal CP system: District Services of Health Woman and Social Action, Assistance office of Family and minor victims of domestic violence and district attorney office.
-Identification, documentation and case management of 60 UASCs, with family-based alternative care & FTR referral.
-Establishing CP referral systems in 5 communities.
-Safe, inclusive, age and gender sensitive daily activities to 400 children in 5 CFS, with structured and free play, life skills sessions for at risk adolescents, and parenting programs. PSS will be provided as a community-based approach and CFSs will be established in collaboration with the government, community leaders and other partners (CARE) in Chiure.
-PFA and focused PSS and referral to specialized MHPSS
-Information on (child) protection, helplines and multi-sectoral assistance at 5 protection helpdesks and the 5 CFS.
-MHM support to 1000 vulnerable adolescent girls

CARE and Plan will jointly address protection issues with CARE focusing on GBV while Plan address CPiE.

Considering the sensitivity of protection activities, the limited background and capacity of local NGOs on protection interventions, and the importance of ensuring the respect of humanitarian principles, Do No Harm, confidentiality and data protection, for now, Plan will ensure direct implementation of CPiE activities.
Plan will work through its office in Chiure, ensuring a rapid response, and receiving extra support through the Pemba office. The delivery model is based on service provision and in-kind support, drawing
from Plan’s experience in CD since 2020. To enhance acceptability and sustainability of the intervention, Plan will closely coordinate with Provincial and district government and particularly with the CP District Reference Group in monitoring, supervision and strengthening of staff capacity and CP systems. The project will also work through community CP structures to ensure wider impact, scale, and sustainability: hereby enabling a participatory community-based approach.

Among the IDPs Plan will focus particularly on girls and boys at high risk, UASC, adolescent girls and children with disabilities, striving to address the following key barriers: Physical & infrastructural Safe and accessible CFSs. Protection Conducting child-centred risk mapping and ensuring Meaningful Child Participation. Social & gender Addressing discrimination due to gender, IDP status, disability and age through community sensitization. Institutional Working with key stakeholders and community structures to ensure zero tolerance towards discriminatory practices such as: denying access; segregation; inequitable resource allocation; sexual or physical violence. Financial Providing CFSs with learning and playing materials appropriate for children of different ages and abilities. In order to ensure the sustainability of the action the following key barriers will be addressed: 
Physical & infrastructural: Safe and accessible CFSs. 
Protection: Conducting child-centred risk mapping and ensuring Meaningful Child Participation. 
Social & gender: Addressing discrimination due to gender, IDP status, disability and age through community sensitization. 
Institutional: Working with key stakeholders and community structures to ensure zero tolerance towards discriminatory practices such as: denying access; segregation; inequitable resource allocation; sexual or physical violence. 
Financial: Providing CFSs with learning and playing materials appropriate for children of different ages and abilities.