OCHA Mozambique Humanitarian dashboard (Conflict) - December 2025

SITUATION UPDATE

By the end of December 2025, approximately one million people had received assistance out of a targeted 1.1 million. However, the overall level of support remained insufficient to meet needs at scale. Compared to the same period in 2024—when 1.8 million people were assisted—this represented a 39 per cent reduction in assistance delivery, significantly limiting both coverage and depth of support.
Most outreach was delivered by Food Security and Livelihoods partners, who reached 585,000 people. However, food distributions had been reduced to once every two months and covered only 39 per cent of minimum caloric requirements. The agriculture and livelihoods component reached 88,000 people. Excluding food assistance, the total number of people reached dropped to 715,000. Of these, 554,000 received multisectoral support across Health, WASH and Shelter, while 484,000 children accessed Education, Nutrition and Child Protection services.
Humanitarian funding in 2025 had halved compared to 2024. A total of $122 million was contributed against requirements of $352 million—less than three-quarters of the previous year’s funding level. National NGOs and government entities accounted for nearly half of all interventions. Relief efforts were concentrated in districts classified with severity level 4 needs, where targets were exceeded (513,000 people reached against 408,000 targeted), followed by severity
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reached out of 45,000 targeted).
When food assistance was excluded, humanitarian programmes in severity level 4 districts reached 175,000 people. Cluster funding levels varied considerably, with available resources ranging between 10 and 32 per cent of requirements.
The 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP) had sought $352 million to assist 1.1 million people affected by conflict across 15 districts in Cabo Delgado. It prioritised two main approaches: rapid mobile response teams to address the acute needs of newly displaced populations, and the provision of multisectoral assistance to IDPs in sites, urban and peri-urban settings, rural IDPs and other affected communities.
Due to the sharp decline in funding, the HNRP was hyper-prioritised in March 2025, with Macomia, Muidumbe, Nangade and Quissanga identified as the highest priority districts.
Analysis of the response in these areas indicated that assistance remained heavily concentrated in food security, with limited delivery of multisectoral support. Throughout 2025, the HNRP was complemented by the Mozambique Drought Appeal (August 2024–December 2025) and the Tropical Cyclones Flash Appeal (January–September 2025), including responses to measles and cholera outbreaks—highlighting how overlapping crises continued to drive humanitarian needs.