Mozambique: 2025 Humanitarian Response Dashboard - Conflict, as of 28 February 2025

The 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) requires US$352 million to meet the most urgent humanitarian needs. This includes $326 million for conflict, $17 million for readiness to respond to natural disasters, $7.5 million is for anticipatory action and an additional $1.9 million is for public health emergency preparedness and initial response.

The plan prioritizes lifesaving and life-sustaining activities, targeting 1.3 million people affected by conflict in 15 districts of Cabo Delgado, with minimum preparedness measures for a caseload of up to 350,000 people affected by natural disasters. This plan is complemented by the separate Mozambique Drought Appeal covering August 2024 to July 2025 and the Tropical Cyclones Flash Appeal Mozambique covering January to June 2025.

With regard to conflict, the humanitarian response strategy has two main components: I) The first line of response prioritizes new IDPs and the most severely conflict-affected individuals, aiming to meet urgent needs through rapid response mechanisms and deploying mobile teams to areas with limited access to essential services.; II) The second line of response focuses on providing sustained, multi-sectoral assistance to various affected groups as it follows:

1. IDPs in Sites and Urban/Peri-Urban Settings: ensuring access to adequate food security, shelter, health/nutrition services, and educational support to stabilize the situation.
2. Rural IDPs and Affected People: support will be provided through livelihood aid, agricultural interventions, and essential services to prevent further vulnerability, foster resilience, and reduce aid dependency.

As of the end of February 2025, the humanitarian community has provided has provided some form of assistance to 35% of the targeted population of Cabo Delgado. The achievement is largely driven by the Food Security and Livelihood Cluster. With the only exception of the Protection Cluster (10% funded) and the Refugee response (21% funded), funding across clusters remains low, between one and three per cent while the nutrition cluster has not received any funding. INGOs and Government account for 42% of the total implementation capacity. As of this time last year, donors had contributed a total of US$ 51 million towards humanitarian programmes. The number of implementing organizations responding to the crisis stood at 66—twice the number currently active.