Today, Under Secretary of State for Social Security, Democracy and Human Rights, Uzra Zeya announced the United States Government, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $116 million in additional assistance in response needs, including acute food shortages. , Mozambique. This amount includes more than $592 million in humanitarian aid announced last week in Kampala to support refugees and people affected by conflict across the African continent and about $1.2 billion to provide critical assistance to millions of people across the Horn of Africa declared. July 18th.
This includes $106 million in humanitarian assistance from USAID to support partners in addressing humanitarian needs resulting from the devastating effects of the ongoing conflict in northern Mozambique and Tropical Cyclone Gombe. The conflict caused the displacement of about 800,000 Mozambicans, and Tropical Cyclone Gombe added to the problems that people in the north of the country were already facing. USAID partners will provide food and nutrition assistance and meet health care, water, sanitation, hygiene, agriculture and other critical humanitarian needs.
This additional funding brings US humanitarian assistance for Mozambique to $167 million in Fiscal Year 2022, including $158 million from USAID. Part of this new funding for Mozambique is part of the $2 billion in humanitarian aid announced by President Joe Biden on June 27 as part of an additional plan to help countries in Africa and around the world that people those who are suffering because of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. . It will immediately address the worst impacts of the global food security crisis through direct food and health assistance, nutrition, security, and infrastructure water, sanitation and hygiene services in countries with high levels of food insecurity, dependence on Russian and Ukrainian. imports, and vulnerability to price shocks.
Today’s budget also includes $10 million, subject to congressional approval, in development assistance for Mozambique. This money is part of an additional $ 760 million announced by President Biden to combat the effects of high prices for food, fuel and fertilizers – which is now driven by Putin’s war – in countries that need it the most. Through this funding, USAID will help smallholder farmers adopt climate-smart agricultural practices through better access to improved seeds and by planting more sustainable crop varieties. USAID will also launch a challenge fund to encourage local agricultural businesses to test and expand new business models, produce products, and adopt new methods that help them overcome supply challenges and reach consumers. properly local.
Mozambique is one of the eight new Feed the Future target countries announced by President Biden in June where Feed the Future will strengthen its efforts to directly address and mitigate the effects of the crisis world food security, exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
For the latest information on USAID’s humanitarian assistance in Mozambique, visit: www.usaid.gov/humanitarian-assistance/mozambique.
