CO-Project delivery on Needs Assessment Oxfam in Southern Africa is operating as a cluster in four countries Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Driven by the need to be efficient, the cluster was established in July 2021. The new model of presence delivers several strategic choices and shifts aimed at achieving broader impact across the region, program coherence and synergies across and within thematic areas of work, actualizing the localization agenda through a deeper partnership model, program management, financial and operational efficiency through shared program and business support services. The SAF Cluster operates in three thematic areas, called pillars: (1) Gender Justice), (2) Just Economies and (3) Humanitarian Action. On the humanitarian program the priorities are disaster risk reduction, preparedness,response and resilience building, food security and economic Inclusion; WASH governance; humanitarian advocacy and building the local humanitarian leadership.
The region’s economy and people’s lives as a whole remain vulnerable to climate-related shocks and humanitarian disasters miscellaneous. This has had wider impact on agriculture and food systems as well as livelihoods and poverty. The last decade has seen the region hit by consecutive climatic disasters that have left millions food insecure and hundreds of thousandsdisplaced. Since 2004, around 15 million people have been facing hunger every year and in 2015, the El Nino-induced drought left nearly 40 million people without enough food and water.  The Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in 2019 left a trail of destruction in parts ofMalawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe, leaving hundreds of thousands of families homeless and millions of others facing a bleak future ahead of them, while strategic infrastructure was extensively damaged. Recurring droughts have adversely affected cereal production in the region such that traditional exporters like Zambia and South Africa reduced their exportable surpluses from 7.5 million tons to 1.4 million during the 2019/20 marketing season and Zambia went from having a surplus of 1.8 million tons to a deficit of 0.3 million tons. The armed conflict in Cabo Delgado northern of Mozambique, since September 2017, which has already caused the displacementof more than one million people and currently living in accommodation centers and/or host communities, continues to be the main driver of food insecurity in Mozambique as an increasing number of IDPs need emergency food assistance. The displacement caused by the conflict and insecurity has left many people in Cabo Delgado with no access to their lands and no means of earning a living.
Oxfam in Mozambique and its partners (ADEL CD, AMA and MAHLAHLE) propose to conduct a needs assessment of IDPs and returnees in Cabo Delgado in anticipation of the call for proposals for ECHO HIP 2024. The organizations mentioned above are Oxfam's partners in developmentand humanitarian action programs. In Cabo Delgado, Oxfam has been responding to the emergence of IDPs in partnership with ADEL CD and AMA in food security and WASH components. MAHLAHLE has been a partner with Oxfam in humanitarian action programs since 2015, it is an organization specialized in gender, but also with extensive experience in development and humanitarian aid areas; therefore, Oxfam and its partners will going to conduct a multi-sectoral needs assessment for the ECHO HIP2024 call for proposals with the aim ofprioritizing and quantifying humanitarian needs in the following proposed targeted districts of Cabo Delgado Province (Macomia, Quissanga, Meluco, Muidumbe, Nangade and Mocímboa da Praia) at the same time that, the Oxfam humanitarian team is closely monitoring the evolution of climate forecasts regarding the possibility of the El Ninõ Phenomenon occurring.

OBJECTIVE OF THE ASSESSMENT
The overall objective of the assessment is to provide a comprehensive, multi-sectoral, methodologically sound, and impartial overall visionof humanitarian needs in the targeted areas of C. Delgado province with a focus on IDPs, returnees     and other vulnerable populations such as people exposed to the risk of calamity.

The specific objectives of the Needs Assessment:
1. To obtain a good understanding of gaps in social services that are gender transformative and inclusive in the areas of Education in Emergency (EiE) and Protection, Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response, Shelter, Food Security and nutrition, and Livelihoods Gaps, WASH Governance, Health, Building resilience, Building local humanitarian leadership (mapping partners for humanitarian programming), security risks andmitigation, risks of sexual and gender-based exploitation and abuse that communities face (especially girls, boys, youth and women)and how those risks are currently addressed. Market access and functionality.
2. Develop a framework of priority recommendations that support the design of an intervention proposal, highlighting the geographic and intervention areas and focusing on IDPs and Returnees.

Key activities:
- Development/design of instruments, including definition of methodologies.
- Desk review.
- Recruitment of Enumerators and Training.
- Data collection.
- Rapid market assessment.
- Water quality test.
- Multi-Sectoral HH assessment.
- Data Analysis.
- Report writing and sharing.