As part of the National Contingency Plan, approximately 87.430 people are currently in the accommodation centres and 52.514 in the resettlement centres that were established after the 2001 floods.

According to INGC, the Government has already allocated 4 million USD to the first phase of the emergency response through its contingency plan and is appealing partners to contribute with additional funding. According to the contingency plan of the Government, the funding needs are estimated in 20,000,000 USD (twenty million Dollars).

Within the framework of the humanitarian reform, with the support of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the humanitarian community in Mozambique has adopted the cluster approach, an international humanitarian response for a more coordinated and effective response, thus avoiding fragmentation, duplication and lack of information flow among the humanitarian stakeholders.

The cluster approach integrates UN agencies and NGOs that are part of the humanitarian community to support the Government of Mozambique in effective response to disasters.

UNDP role in the present emergency is to support the government’s capacity for the monitoring and rescue activities which included the payment for a significant hours of helicopter flights and boats.

The UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), has provided an immediate release of 100,000 USD (one hundred thousand Dollars) to support the above mentioned activities.

Also UNDP is supporting the INGC for the (delete “the”) planning and launching the appeal for the early recovery phase, a top priority as emanated by the government of Mozambique.

UNDP support also includes the deployment this week, of two specialists from the Bureau for Crises Prevention and Recovery (BCPR/UNDP) who arrived in Maputo to strengthen the capacity for mainstreaming the early recovery strategy and plan, across all the UN and government’s clusters.

In 2006, UNDP supported the Government in Gaza province on water supply capacity with 50,000 USD (fifty thousand Dollars) as part of the drought mitigation. Specifically this contribution was aimed at supporting the strengthening of its infrastructure, namely the rehabilitation of 10 boreholes and construction of 4 new ones in Mabalane district, benefiting about 25.464 people.

In collaboration with UNDP, the Government undertook a national assessment after the earthquake, especially in the most affected provinces and districts. UNDP contributed with 100,000 USD (One hundred thousand Dollars).

For more information, please contact:

Nelson Xavier, UNDP Communication Officer.

Mobile phone: + 258 82 3140600

Office + 258 21 481438

E-mail: nelson.xavier@undp.org

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