Northern Mozambique Rural Resilience Project

The development objective of the Northern Mozambique Rural Resilience Project for Mozambique is to improve access to livelihoods opportunities for vulnerable communities and management of natural resources in selected rural areas of Northern Mozambique. The project comprises of four components. The first component, improving access to livelihoods and community infrastructure will address the fragility driver exclusion of local communities and internally displaced person (IDP) (particularly women and youth) from access to livelihoods depending on renewable natural resources. It consists of following sub-components: (i) livelihoods stabilization through community driven development (CDD); (ii) sustainable agriculture interventions; and (iii) sustainable fisheries interventions. The second component, improving management of natural resources will focus on addressing two key drivers of fragility. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improved management of forests and climate risks; (ii) improved and more inclusive management of conservation areas; and (iii) improved management of fisheries resources. The third component, multi-stakeholder coordination and project management will provide operational costs of multi-stakeholder platforms at the level of each province, to the Agency for Integrated Development of the North (ADIN) for the development of a multi-stakeholder platform per each province to facilitate multi-stakeholder coordination and dialogue, private sector involvement, and landscape and local-level monitoring. The fourth component, contingency and emergency response is included to provide the means to support the recipient in case of a potential disaster-recovery need.