Projects

ISET – One World was established to train teachers and in 2005 got recognized as an independent institution of higher education.

The institute offers degrees in Pedagogy and Social Science through face-to-face and distance learning.

The extraordinary life and learning at the institute in its rural setting in Changalane district, is established first by the organizational structure of the student’s life where the core group consisting of 10-15 students including their teacher becomes the vessel from where reality is investigated and acted upon. A manifold of programme elements place the student in the middle of a vibrant reality where the centre pieces of learning many times place the student outside the comfort zone of normal educational perceptions of learning.

Full name of the Project: “Instituto Superior de Educação e Tecnologia”, ISET - One World

Principal Partners: Ministry for Science, Technology & Higher Education, Planet Aid with funds from USDA

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Spain and USA

Location: Maputo province

ADPP Mozambique has trained primary school teachers since 1993. ADPP’s Teacher Training Colleges, also known as Schools for “Teachers of the Future”, are found in all 11 provinces of Mozambique.

The colleges were established as a contribution to the Mozambican Government’s effort to improve the quality of primary education in the country. In 2021 ADPP’s had graduated a total of teachers 23,451. 

ADPP Teacher Training Colleges are unique because they respond to the realities of rural communities. The holistic programmes address the local economic, social and cultural factors, creating a bridge between schools and communities, teachers and students and students and schools management.

To ensure that the students excel, the colleges use inclusive, innovative and participatory methodologies. The teacher training course allows the students to be at the center stage of their education and training, as drivers of their own learning.

Full name of the Project: Teacher Training Colleges of The Future  “Escola de Professores do Futuro”  (EPFs).

Principal Partner:  Ministry of Education and Human Development

Other partners: Planet Aid with funds from USDA, Humana People to People member associations: Austria, Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Spain and USA

Location: All provinces

The Graduate Teachers’ Network aims to give continuous support and promote further professional development for teachers after they graduate. Through this initiative ADPP contributes to a higher quality primary education in Mozambique. 

In 2019, the network reached out to more than 1,669 primary school teachers and influenced nearly 125,000 pupils in primary schools with child centered, gender sensitive quality education practices.

The network uses a variety of methods to share knowledge and skills. It also promotes reading and writing clubs in the primary schools to develop a culture of reading, as well as to improve children’s reading and writing skills. Members of the network have also produced teaching aides together, constructed classrooms and started school’s vegetable gardens.

Despite the impressive progress since the independence, the level of academic and vocational training in Mozambique remains low. In response to these challenges ADPP runs 3 Vocational Training centres in north, central and south of Mozambique.

Each school provides girls and boys, especially adolescent and youth with the necessary technical skills to increase their opportunities to enter the local labor market as employees or through their own income generation activities. The schools are offering programs in the areas of agriculture and livestock, civil construction, business administration, hospitality and tourism and community development.

Each of the schools also take the role of community centers for development of competences offering short courses for vulnerable and out of school unemployed youths.

Since their establishment more than 7,200 students have graduated from the different courses, while the same schools have over the last decade offered short courses for approximately 8,000 youths.

Full name of the Project: “Instituto Politécnico de Nhamatanda”, ”Instituto Politécnico de Nacala”

Principal Partner:  State Secretariat for Technical and Professional Education

Other partners: Municipality of Baden, Austria, Humana People to People member associations: Austria, Italy

Location: Sofala and Nampula province

ADPP is committed to improving and promoting equitable access to primary and secondary education.

ADPP runs two primary schools, the “Ants of the Future” school in Chimoio, Manica province, and the “Children’s Town” in Maputo City. Both schools provide education and shelter for orphans and vulnerable children.

ADPP believes that important life skills are learnt beyond the school curriculum. As a result, in addition to the national primary school curriculum, the schools conduct a range of extracurricular activities. As well as helping to identify and nurture children’s talents, these extracurricular activities equip these children with several vital life skills such as teamwork, networking, leadership, and decision making.

ADPP also runs two secondary schools, “No Caminho da Vitória” and “Patrice Lumumba”, in Maputo province. Over 2,000 children and young people attend these four schools annually, some of whom might not have had a chance of going to secondary school.

Full name of the Project: “Formigas do Futuro”, Chimoio, “Cidadela das Crianças”, Maputo, “Escola Secundária No Caminho da Vitoria”, Maputo

Principal Partners: Ministry of Education and Human Development, Ministry of Women and Social Welfare

Other partners: City of Vienna, Commonwealth of Learning, Humana People to People member associations: Italy, Lithuania, Portugal.

Location: Manica and Maputo province and Maputo city.

During the early years of life, children need a supportive learning environment. This includes access to adequate healthcare, nutritious food, and a stimulating environment to support cognitive development.

One of the major challenge in achieving good results in primary education in Mozambique is the widespread absence of pre-school education and inability to speak Portuguese.

To address this, ADPP has implemented a pilot programme called “70 Pre-Schools” with the aim of promoting pre-primary education in 70 communities in Maputo province.

The project began in 2014 and ended in 2019 and benefitted 4,665 children, 980 parents and 770 members of Community Coordination Committees (CCCs)*. 70 pre-schools have been constructed and 280 facilitators have been trained. It has been shown that children who attend the 70 pre-schools learn faster than those who did not attend.

This project, funded by Light for the World, aims to promote inclusive education in Sofala and Manica provinces by strengthening the capacities of teachers in inclusive education, establishing a Resource Centre specialized in inclusive education and by strengthening inclusive education in Chimoio, through cooperation between the Teacher Training Colleges in Chimoio and Nhamatanda.

The Project has made great strides in promoting understanding of the concept of inclusive education and in increasing respect for the rights of people with disabilities.

In 2019, the trainings, the Braille clubs and field trips, benefited trainee teachers and 4 Teacher Trainers with new skills, practices, better attitudes and inspiration for inclusive education and for working with people with disabilities. Some of the new skills were reading in Braille, community-based rehabilitation, the development of didactic materials on disability, as well as how to deliver disability-sensitive pedagogy.

Full name of the Project: Promoting Inclusive Education 

Principal Partners: Light for the World

Location: Sofala, Manica provinces

ADPP implemented this project in Maputo province, covering the districts of Manhiça, Matutuine, Moamba and Magude. The project direct benefits almost 90,000 children through interventions in 7 programme areas, namely: School Feeding, Literacy, School Gardens and School Farms, Water and Sanitation, Nutrition Education, Construction and Extra-Curricular Activities.

School feeding is at the heart of the FFK project, and a critical aspect of the program, which aims, among others, to improving school attendance.

FFK also trained primary school teachers on methods of teaching literacy in local languages. Students participating in local language instruction performed significantly better when to those receiving only Portuguese instruction.

To date, the project has also successfully facilitated access to drinking water sources for all the 271 schools.

The project provided nutrition education to teachers, volunteers and students, which allowed the transfer of knowledge to students and communities, thus expanding the results of the project.

Full name of the Project: School Feeding Project through The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education And child Nutrition Programme under Planet Aid Inc. 

Principal Partners: Planet Aid with funding from USDA

Implementing partners: Cambridge Education, WISHH (World Initiative for Soy in Human Health)

Other partners: Ministry of Education and Human Development, Humana People to People member associations: Lithuania, Spain

Location: Maputo province

Mapunziro means education – wisdom in local Chichewa language.

This project aims to improve the quality of primary education in Zambézia, as well as students’ educational performance in 14 primary schools in the districts of Milange, Molumbo and Morrumbala.

Initiated in 2019, the project is based on the ADPP Graduate Teachers Network and has 4 central aims:
• Improving school management practices in the target schools
• Improving of teachers’ pedagogical performance and gender response in target schools
• Training students in target schools in actively speaking for themselves
• Increasing community commitment to the principle of universal education for all, with an emphasis on the participation of girls.

In 2019, it trained 32 teachers in inclusive education, 168 school council representatives in school governance and established 14 sports and cultural clubs with the participation of 560 children. It also established 14 reading clubs to build 280 pupils’ competency in reading.

Full name of the Project: Improving Teaching Quality and Inclusion in Primary Schools 

Principal Partners: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Finland, UFF Finland

Location: Zambezia province

This project’s objective is to improve the quality of education and learning outcomes of over 300,000 children in 12 districts of Nampula province.

This will be achieved through:
• Raising parents / care givers and community awareness on the importance of local languages in reading, writing and mathematics in the first grades while also addressing gender inequality in education, and gender-based violence like early marriage at school and family levels;
• Strengthening school councils’ role in holding teachers and school managers accountable for improved service delivery for improvements in reading instruction, reduction rates of teacher absenteeism, drop-out rates and increase girls’ attendance;
• Mobilising community members to serve as Learning Passionates as change makers to mobilise and equip parents/educators and communities with tools and practical skills to become more involved in their children's learning
• Providing local government with tools to better monitor and improve existing education systems, thereby accelerating results, enhancing impact and sustainability

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Full name of the Project:  “Apoiar a Ler”, Community Engagement in Bilingual Education Nampula) 

Principal Partner: USAID

Implementing partners: APRODER, h2n, Rovuma University

Location: Nampula province

The intervention aims to ensure long-term quality educational and professional training for children and young people, in order to contribute to ensuring that all girls and boys in Paquitequete complete an equitable and quality primary and secondary education, leading their social and personal development.

It is expected that the project will improve school/learning performance of children, increase inclusive access to primary education and increase community awareness on the importance and sense of responsibility on multiple basic topics such as education, sports, environment, health & hygiene, gender rights, among others.

Full name of the Project: Integrated Education Project in the Paquitequete Community in Pemba, Cabo Delgado

Principal Partner: ENI Rovuma Basin B.V

Location: Cabo Delgado province

The project is a plan B aimed to contribute to a safe re-opening of 11 target schools in Palma as a counteraction to the adversities caused by the COVID–19 pandemic which closed all educational establishments countrywide.

Accordingly, the project will improve conditions for a safe re-opening of 11 schools in Palma-Sede, aligned with Decree 21/2020 which states that schools reopening is conditional to the creation of appropriate conditions. This will have a direct positive impact on the opportunity for children to return to school.

In collaboration with SDEJT, the project has designed 4 major activities that can be categorized under the umbrella of creating conditions for reopening schools safely. These are: 1) sanitation and hygiene (install water conditions and tip-taps, construct latrines, and provide hygiene materials); 2) awareness activities (Raising awareness to teachers, parents and guardians), 3) equipping schools for extra-curricular activities and recovering schools infrastructure.

In parallel, we are also doing literacy and numeracy classes for parents and community members; including basic financial literacy contents will be organized at schools.

Full name of the Project: Holistic and Integrated Approach to Education in Palma District, Cabo Delgado

Principal Partner: ExxonMobil Moçambique, Limitada

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Finland

Location: Cabo Delgado province

The objective of the project is to empower 41 EPF Cabo Delgado graduates (most of whom are displaced) in strengthening community resilience at local level and enable vulnerable youth to resist extremism in Cabo Delgado Province.

It aims to develop an online platform to facilitate further training and tutoring of Graduates in peace education, conduction of community dialogues and focus groups, COVID19 prevention.

The graduates will conduct a rapid needs assessment conducted in target communities by graduates to inform the Phase II project.

The project’s activities include: creating a network of peers among graduates, developing a diagnostic tool to implement rapid assessment of needs in communities and finally conduct a diagnosis and produce recommendations for Phase II.

Full name of the Project: Teachers Graduate Network for Community Resilience

Principal Partner: DAI Global

Location: Cabo Delgado province

The Promoting Inclusive Education and Gender Equality project is implemented in Sofala Province - Beira, Búzi, Dondo, Gorongosa and Nhamatanda Districts and in Manica Province - Chimoio City. It will benefit 12 primary schools where it will hold training sessions for pupils in gender inclusion and disability, from 4th to 6th grade;

The aim of the project is to:

·      Strengthen capacities in the Teacher Training Colleges in Inclusive Education as a starting point for gender transformation actions; 

·      Create environments in the primary schools to retain girls, especially those with disabilities, through the creation of gender inclusion clubs; 

·      Strengthen cooperation between the Nhamatanda and Chimoio EPFs in the field of gender inclusion.

In order to implement the project, safe spaces will be created in the EPFs, where 56 gender and disability inclusion promoters are selected (36 in EPR Nhamatanda EPF and 20 in the EPF Chimoio). 50% of the promoters will be women and 50% men;

In the five districts covered in Sofala Province, home visits are part of the activities of the  programs, which is why the project only planned home visits for Chimoio;

The project plans two annual Open Days at EPF, one during Mozambican Women's Week (April 3 to 8) and the other on October 11, International Day of the Girl;

8 scholarships will be made available to young people with disabilities to attend the 3 year teacher training course at the EPF in Nhamatanda and Chimoio where 4 young people will start the course in the 1st year of the project and 4 young people will start the course in the 2nd year. Of the eight scholarships, 60% are for women.

The activities are done in strong collaboration with the Provincial Department of Education and Human Development.  

The project will have Project Coordinator/team leader, 2 Focal point, 1 community mobilizer, Financial Supervisor  

Full name of the Project: Promoting Education and Gender Equality

Principal Partner: Light for the World

Location: Sofala and Manica

This is an education project in Pemba, Cabo Delgado. It involves 2 primary schools and 2  Kindergartens.. 

The objective is to contributing to a long-term quality educational and professional training for children and young people, to ensure that all girls and boys in Paquitequete complete an equitable and quality primary and secondary education, leading to their social and personal development. This is especially to minimise the risk of these  young people inadvertently participating in  the activities of the insurgents in Cabo Delgado considering  that Paquitequete is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Pemba city and is mostly inhabited by Muslim population. There are 4 activities that will be implemented: 

• Infrastructure and equipment improvement in the 2 schools and 2 kindergarten; 
• Training of 57 teachers whom are teaching 4200 primary school children in 3 daily shifts in the 2 schools, training of 11 school managers/administrators of these schools, and 16 kindergartens educators; 
• Youth scholarship support for 50 students per year, during three-year,in secondary schools in Pemba, 
• Increaseinvolvement of children and teenagers from the community to participate in extra curricula activities and long-term follow up;
• Family and community participation through the existing 2 school councils and 2 parents associations in kindergarten;
• 100 parents actively participating in activities in schools and kindergartens 
• School feeding, consisting in a meal per child in the 3 daily shifts per school, and two meals per child in the Kindergarten..
• Organize 9 awareness campaigns on the importance of multiple basic topics (education, sport, environment, health and hygiene etc.)
• Literacy classes for 400 adults in the community

Full name of the Project: Paquitequete Primary School Project

Principal Partner: Eni

Location: Cabo Delgado, Pemba

The purpose of the program is to support the government's efforts to improve the literacy skills of elementary school pupils in Mozambique, through 3 strands, namely: (1) the use of structured lesson plans; (2) continuous professional development for teachers and (3) aligned formative assessments to monitor pupil progress.

 The project is implemented in two provinces Niassa and Manica where we started the pilot project, extending the number of districts and schools. The activities is taking place in 305 schools in 13 districts, in Niassa 53 schools in one district, Lichinga, and in Manica in 12 districts, covering 252 schools.  

The plan is to train 700 primary teachers, 305 school managers, 83 monitors ( Directores das Zips), 305 Coaches (Pedagogical directors) and technicians from SDEJT, DPEDH, SPAS, in coordination with the IFPs and EPF trainers who are part of carrying out the training exercises.

The project is using a methodology of training in cascade, where there is a first phase - ADPP team is trained by the World Bank to be familiar with the contents of the training. 

This training includes the participation of ADPP Keys staff. The second phase is the training of IFP/ EPF teacher trainers, the provincial technicians (DPE and SPAS) at the level of each province.

The third phase is the training of district monitors and technicians in each province.

The fourth phase is the training of the Coaches (DAEs) and teachers at district level. This organization will allow the sustainability of the project because we will have trainers at Provincial, District and Zip level, which can facilitate the training even with the end of the project, as they will have acquired knowledge in the area of teaching methodologies in the early grades.  

Full name of the Project:  Aprender+ -  Niassa and Manica Province

Principal Partner:  World Bank 

Location: Niassa and Manica Province

The project aims to contribute to the ongoing process of improving the quality and relevance of teacher training programs at two Mozambican higher education institutions, UP-Maputo and ISET-One World. The expected impact of the project is to strengthen the capacity of UP-Maputo and ISET-One World to deliver and develop quality teacher training that provides trainees with better skills in inclusive education in various Mozambican contexts. In doing so, the project contributes to the Education Strategic Plan and to the Government of Mozambique's overall objective of achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

Activities:

·      Organizing the training of teacher trainers and other staff (training of trainers) workshops

·      Staff exchange – mobility, study visit to South Africa.

·      Upgrade digital technologies (video/audio studios)

·      Organize practical training on the use of digital technologies for selected teacher trainers and Mentoring

·      Create a platform with digital training material for in-service teachers.

·      Innovate and test co-teaching in selected teacher training courses as a practical solution for inclusive education (e.g. special needs teachers and subject teachers) 

·      Prepare a guide for teachers on (tested) methods for strengthening learning communities 

·      Innovate and test context-relevant practical methods in the field of science (with an emphasis on sustainability) 

·      STEM Clubs (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) centred on girls – pilot.  

Full name of the Project:  TIPOTE

Principal Partner:  JAMK

Location:Maputo

ADPP Mozambique, in partnership with Save the Children, is implementing a 5-year project in the province of Nampula, covering the districts of Angoche, Meconta, and Liupo. The main goal of the project is to improve school management and enhance teachers’ pedagogical skills to increase student performance. Additionally, it aims to create a safe and inclusive environment, focusing on the protection of girls and children with disabilities. The project seeks to improve access to formal education and ensure the retention of students at risk of dropping out, especially girls and children with disabilities.

Key activities include:

• Revitalizing school councils
• Training local leaders and raising community awareness about the importance of education for vulnerable groups
• Combating sexual abuse, bullying, and other forms of violence in schools
• Providing adult literacy programs and life skills training for youth, promoting entrepreneurship
• Climate change education is another central component, along with an accelerated learning program for students who are behind
• Mobilizing families and local radio stations to promote education, child protection, gender equality, and environmental awareness in the community

Full name of the Project:  EmpowerED

Principal Partner:  Save the Children

Location: Nampula Province

In 2018 in Mozambique, 2.2 million people were living with HIV (PLHIV) but only 72% knew their status and only 56% were in treatment. There are 227 new HIV infections a day in the country and most are among adolescents. In Manica Province, the prevalence of HIV is 13.5%; and the average rate of retention to treatment is 67%.

This project aims to improve case detection of children living with HIV and their adherence to treatment in the districts of Bárue and Sussundenga by securing that at least 90% of the population at risk (0-14) and adolescent girls/young women (10-19) are tested for HIV and know their serological status; and that at least 90% of the target group living with HIV are in Care and Treatment.

In the field, we work in collaboration with local NGOs by testing women sex workers; conducting community and school campaigns; and doing home visits to identify OVCS to be referred to mobile brigades (HIV testing).

Mobile and girl brigades are also used to reach out to 10-19 year old girls and to mobilize children and mothers to be part of a TRIO and Positive Living Groups/Mother Groups.

 Full name of the Project: Together We Stay On

Principal Partner: Aidsfonds

Implementing partners: CIOB, KUYAKANA and OMES

Other partners: DPS, Direcção Distrital de Saúde de Barue, Health Units, CBO’, Humana People to People member associations: Lithuania.

Location: Manica

The project adapts the OneImpact (digital) tool, currently being piloted by ADPP in Mozambique under the Stop TB Partnership, in 7 districts of Gaza Province. Using the OneImpact digital platform, we focus on improving TB patients’ experience during treatment. Based on the patients’ reporting on the digital platform the project addresses the issues/barriers raised by them.

With strong focus on a people centered strategy, the project aligns with global agrrements that focus on, amongst others, community-based and gender-responsive health services; finding the missing people with tuberculosis, and increasing and improving access to tuberculosis services by considering how digital technologies could be integrated into existing health system infrastructures.

Therefore, we encourage people affected by TB to monitor the local TB response in order to strengthen the national TB response while increasing the voicing of their needs. Doing so, it provides a platform for responding to TB by listening to people affected by TB and responding to their needs.

Full name of the Project: Community Led Monitoring – One Impact Mozambique

Principal Partners: Stop TB Partnership with funds from UNOPS

Other partners: AMIMO           

Location: Maputo, Gaza, and Zambézia provinces.

The Service Delivery and Support Programme for Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVC) is a USAID-funded project led by Family Health International (FHI 360) that aims to improve the health, nutritional status and well-being of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) and their families. The programme also covers Adolescent Girls and Young Women (YWAM) with high vulnerability to HIV/AIDS infection. ADPP is an implementing partner and will work in Moamba, Marracuene, Manhiça and Magude districts, in Maputo province

DREAMS aims to: 1) HIV/AIDS prevention in adolescent girls and young women with high vulnerability to infection; and 2) reducing the economic vulnerability of young girls by supporting them to have access to financial products and services through savings groups, income generation activities, entrepreneurship and access to the employment market.

To implement this, DREAMS recruits Mentors to guide and support girls through discussions in safe spaces, advocate and facilitate access to relevant services, including the provision of individualised services to enable girls' reintegration and maintenance in school. We also carry out parental education sessions for caregivers of the girls who would benefit from the project

In addition, the project also liaises with the local health and other relevant services to refer adolescents for access to relevant services (YFHS, ACPE, etc.).

Total Control of the Epidemic (TCE) approach is based on the principle that individual action, reinforced by government and civil organization efforts, are key to stopping an epidemic. TCE has been the slogan for ADPP’s HIV /an AIDS program since 2001 and at its forefront is the systematical engagement of people in the communities in gaining control over HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Based on this principle, TCE uses different methodologies based on target groups:
• Index case testing: traces sexual contacts and children of an HIV+ person. Once located, they are provided counseling and testing. The newly diagnosed HIV cases are then referred to a health facility to immediately start treatment and be supported with regular follow up visits and encouraged to form support groups for treatment adherence.
• Key population: used to reach high-risk groups such as truck drivers, migrant workers, and female sex-workers. The interventions include peer-to-peer mobilization and education, counselling & testing, support groups with saving and loans activities, and improved access to health services.

ADPP has implemented TCE, HIV community testing in 8 districts in Gaza province using the family approach since 2014.

The family approach includes counselling and testing of all family members and sexual partners based on an index case strategy if one member in the family has already tested positive for HIV.

In 2019, through the index case strategy, the project expanded testing and treatment services to the family and close contacts of 70,000 people, of whom 8% were sexual partners, and 83% tested positive for HIV, 49% were direct family and 9% tested positive and 43% indirect family of which 8% tested HIV positive. The project reintegrated 5,208 patients who had abandoned treatment back on anti-retroviral treatment.

VIVA+ is a HIV Prevention, Gender Based Violence and Promotion of the Human Rights of Girls and Young Women project.

It aims to achieve HIV prevention among young girls between 10 and 14 years old, and young women between the ages of 15 and 24 years old.

The intervention offers a wide package of prevention services, which include: sexual and reproductive health, life skills, referral to “SAAJ” (Adolescent and Youth Friendly Services), screening for gender-based violence, human rights, family planning, condom distribution, referral to health services for counselling, community health testing and other health services.

In 2019 the project reached 116,000 girls with this package of services and nearly 30,000 received a follow up in Youth Friendly health Services. To further prevent HIV, the project distributed 1 million condoms and age appropriate condom education to young women giving them some leverage to negotiate safe sex with their partners.

Full name of the Project: HIV, TB and Advocacy Activities to Guarantee the Human Rights of Girls and Women, including GBV, in Southern Mozambique, Projecto VIVA+

Principal Partner:  FDC with funding from Global Fund

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Estonia, Italy, Norway.

Location: Maputo Province and Maputo city

HOPE is a project implemented in 7 districts of the provinces of Maputo and Cabo Delgado. The project seeks to reduce the risk of exposure to HIV by mobilizing individuals and communities in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

The project promotes free voluntary HIV counselling and testing with the aim to save lives among people living with HIV to start and stay on the lifelong treatment.

The project promotes free voluntary HIV counselling testing, counselling on adherence to Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART), contributing to treatment adherence and retention of newly enrolled patients. Additionally the project offers TB screening, screening for gender-based violence and malnutrition to further reduce HIV and TB infection and co-infections. Pregnant women, discordant couples and children, are prioritized as they are among the most vulnerable groups.

In 2019, the project tested 49,000 people, and identified 6,174 new PLHIV (14%), of whom 90% started treatment. In Maputo, the project reintegrated 60% of the 3,000 patients who had abandoned antiretroviral treatment.

Full name of the Project: Support Local Organizations in the Implementation and Expansion of HIV/AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (HOPE)

Principal Partner:  Ariel Glaser with funding from CDC

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Austria, Italy, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain.

Location: Maputo and Cabo Delgado provinces

PASSOS is a project implemented in selected districts of 3 provinces: Gaza, Niassa and Zambezia. The project supports key populations, such as female sex workers, men who have sex with men and injecting drug users, to learn about their status and reduce the risk of new HIV infections among these high-risk groups and their sexual partners or clients.

Through mobilization, counseling and peer testing, the project identifies HIV+ female sex workers, their clients and children and incentives them to start treatment. In addition, the project collects the viral load status of patients who have been on treatment for more than six months to check the effectiveness of the treatment.

In 2019, the project reached 6,039 women sex workers with HIV prevention messages; 5,149 of them tested positive and 593 started treatment.

Full name of the Project: Integrated HIV Prevention and Health Services for Key and Priority Populations (HIS/KP-PASSOS) 

Principal Partners: FHI360 with funding from USAID

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Italy, Lithuania.

Location: Gaza, Zambezia, Niassa provinces

ADPP implemented a TB community screening project in Matola district in Maputo province that begun in the second quarter of 2019.

The main strategies used to find the missing TB cases is through contact investigation and active case finding in identified hot spots in the districts. The project’s activities provide care to all identified TB cases through DOT (Direct Observation and Treatment) and ensure all children under 5 receive treatment therapy as prevention.

In 2019, 7,660 persons with TB symptoms were reached and over 1,000 contacts of TB index case patients were screened and referred for testing at the health facilities.  More than 900 TB positive cases were identified and immediately integrated on treatment.

Full name of the Project: Strengthen the National Response to HIV and TB in Mozambique through an Effective Partnership between the Government and Civil Society.

Principal Partner: Centro de Colaboração em Saúde (CCS)

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Austria, Italy, Lithuania, Slovania, Spain.

Location: Maputo province and Maputo city

The Total Control of TB project is implemented in 7 districts in Gaza province.

The aim of the project is to increase TB case detection and achieve successful treatment of all TB cases in the 7 districts. The approach includes contact investigation of all diagnosed TB cases; screening their contacts; active case findings in the community through door-to-door and collection of sputum samples; systematic follow up on suspects negative cases for 2 years; provision of DOT for all patients on treatment and ensuring children and pregnant women receive treatment.

In 2019, through 80 activists, the project screened 57,700 members of mining communities for TB.  1,300 TB cases were detected and 830 of the patients were given support to form a TRIO (where patients nominate 2 supporters from their family who will help them stay on treatment).

The TRIO support structure has been critical for treatment adherence and treatment success rates as it provides a safe and non-judgemental “space” for the patients to receive psycho-social support that encourages them to take their medication.

Full name of the Project: NGO Services to Implement Active Search and Investigation of Tuberculosis Contacts in the province of Gaza

Principal Partners: The Ministry of Health with funding from the World Bank

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: UFF Finland 

Location: Gaza province

Challenge TB has been under implementation since 2017 in 10 districts of Zambézia and Nampula provinces with the aim to reduce the impact of TB.

This was achieved through promotion of preventive methods, treatment and quality care. TB cases were detected through door-to-door awareness and verbal screening and cough days, in support of the national TB program.

When the project ended in the first quarter of 2019, nearly 15,000 people were screened for TB, with 2,500 suspect cases found and 1,700 tested. This resulted in the identification of 500 TB cases, which were referred for treatment, achieving a 100% cure.

In September 2019, ADPPP was awarded a 5 year contract by USAID to implement a TB Response in 50 districts in the provinces of Nampula, Sofala, Tete and Zambézia in partnership with the Mozambican National TB Program.

It will mobilize local entities and communities to provide quality tuberculosis services, improve the quality of patient-centered TB care, increase diagnosis of Drug-Sensitive and Drug-Resistant TB cases and improve the treatment success rates.

A consortium of five organizations is implementing the project, with ADPP as the lead organisation.  This is a key achievement for ADPP, a demonstration of the fruits of years of investing in institutional strengthening. 

A successful launch was held in October, with participation of strategic and key stakeholders, such as the National TB Program, provincial government authorities, and Provincial Health Directorates, showing support and interest in the project, which is a critical indicator for later project success.

Full name of the Project: Mozambique Local TB Response

Principal Partner: USAID

Implementing partners: FHI360, ComuSanas, Kupulumussana, DIMAGI, Lúrio University

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Lithuania, Portugal

Location: Nampula, Zambezia, Sofala, Tete Provinces

ADPP has a partnership agreement with World Vision to implement “Accelerating and Strengthening the Quality of Malaria Control Interventions in Mozambique”. The project aims to increase to 100% the access to at least one malaria prevention method in Nampula and Niassa Provinces.

Main Activities

Malaria Prevention is a community-based project, which activities consist of raising awareness for behaviour change about malaria. The project engages community leaders, volunteers, teachers, students, APSs, Community Health Committees in the dissemination of the key messages about malaria prevention, transmission, signs and symptoms and the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. These activities are carried out during the awareness campaign, home visits for demand creation and through community radio programs and people implement these messages in their households. And to ensure effective malaria prevention, besides access to essential information about malaria, people have access to mosquito nets treated with the long-lasting insecticide that the project distributes in the communities together with the local government.

Full name of the Project: Accelerating and Strengthening the Quality of Malaria Control Interventions in Mozambique

Principal Partner:  World Vision with funding from Global Fund

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, USA

Location: Nampula, Niassa provinces

This regional project was another opportunity for ADPP to reaffirm its ability to lead an international consortium of civil society organizations.

The project began in August 2016 and covered 3 countries – Mozambique, South Africa and Eswatini (MOSASWA) This was later extended to 3 other countries in May 2017 and was renamed to Elimination 5 (Botswana, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe with Mozambique).

In 2018, ADPP scaled down the management of this project in 6 countries and used 2019 to support the 5 countries to hand over this intervention to their Ministries of Health and national health services.

The project created malaria control posts and carried out diagnosis, treatment and community outreaches in the border areas, with the aim of supporting efforts to eliminate malaria in southern Africa by 2030. This included tracking malaria across the borders.

In 2019, 102,000 people were tested and treated 8,100 patients according to Ministry of Health guidelines.

ADPP has an Award Agreement with USAID to implement the Transform Nutrition (TN) project designed to improve the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls and children under two years of age in 12 districts of Nampula (Angoche, Lalaua, Larde, Meconta, Mecuburi, Memba, Mongicual, Mogovolas, Mossuril, Murrupula, Nacala Porto and Rapale), and covers 80% of the target population.  

The overall goal of Transform Nutrition is to provide the Government of the Republic of Mozambique (GRM) with a tested, holistic and gender-transformative model for achieving improvements in nutritional outcomes for Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW), Adolescent Girls (AGs), and Children Under 2 years of age (CU2). 

The project’s overall objective is to improve, the nutritional status of 118,000 PLW, 260.000 AGs, and 165,000 CU2 in Nampula Province for the five-year implementation period. However, TN project was awarded an extension period of performance by Nine (9) months from September 2024 to June 2025.

The projected extension period of performance by Nine (9) months (September 2024 to June 2025), will bolster behaviour change in the main target groups of the project, to allow TN to strengthen local capacity and to hand over the interventions to the local government in sustainable manner, the extension period is being implemented in a consortium with one (1) partner: Asssociação h2n, with ADPP as the lead.  

Full name of the Project: Transform Nutrition 

Principal Partner: USAID

Implementing partners: FHI360, h2n, Rovuma University

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: Finland, Lithuania, USA

Location: Nampula province

ADPP has a contract with the CDC for the implementation of the Catalyzer Project over a period of five years. The project's goal is to increase the availability, accessibility, acceptability, and quality of HIV, TB, and health services through innovative, community-led approaches that will identify and address barriers to healthcare services and social obstacles that prevent people with HIV and TB from accessing healthcare and exercising their right to health. Catalisar works with populations affected by HIV and TB, local civil society, and the government at all levels, utilizing the CLM process.

The project uses the innovative digital solution CLM (OneImpact) as a tool to capture and document feedback from users of HIV and TB services, primarily from people affected by HIV and TB. This feedback is used to advocate for the improvement of quality HIV and TB services, thereby reducing stigma and discrimination at both the health facility and community levels.

Catalyzer will strengthen the capacity of four local civil society organizations, including other CSOs to be contracted for the three extension districts (Monapo, Ribaué, and Naca-a-Velha), to use the CLM approach and digital platform for continuous documentation and subsequent resolution of barriers at the community, health facility, district, provincial, and central levels. Catalisar operates in eight districts, namely: Nampula, Rapale, Nacala-Porto, Mossuril, Ilha de Moçambique, Monapo, Ribaué, and Naca-a-Velha, covering 30 health facilities and working with 60 activists, 10 per health facility. The project will also involve 7 CLM Leaders and 2 Capacity Building Officers.

Project name: Catalyze Community-Led Monitoring (CLM)

Implementation Partners: various local community organizations, including Okhapelela, Ovarelelana, Hooty Mozambique, and AMOLETU/ADN. 

Project Duration: September 30, 2023, to September 29, 2024 (Year 1 of a 5-year project)

Implementation Area: Nampula Province, districts of Nampula, Meconta, and Rapale

Donor: CDC Mozambique

The Tsogolo Tsicana Project, is implemented by ADPP Mozambique in partnership with the Government of Flanders. ADPP signed a contract with Flanders for the first time in 2022. The contract lasts for four years. The main objective of the project is to increase access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), including maternal and neonatal health, with specific attention to vulnerable groups. Over four years, the Tsogolo Tsicana Project aims to: (1) Delay early pregnancies and child marriages to improve adolescent health; (2) Increase the number of AGYW who complete their education and are empowered to make informed decisions about their lives; (3) Improve the provision of quality health services for AGYW and children; (4) Strengthen health services to provide quality care for AGYW and children.

Tsogolo Tsicana is being implemented in Moatize, Changara, and Tete City, in Tete Province, working with 8 health units. The primary goal is to reach 15,200 adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) and their families, engaging them in activities that empower them to achieve better health and well-being for themselves and their children. To reach AGYW, we involve and train mentors who are forming and leading Girls' Clubs (570 clubs – 4 years) for adolescent girls aged 9 to 17 years and 190 Mothers' Clubs (190 clubs, aged 18 to 24 years). The mentors are also forming rotating savings and credit groups (RSCGs) for girls aged 18 to 24 to increase their economic autonomy and reduce dependence on others. AGYW living with HIV are receiving consented home support visits and are invited to form a TRIO to support adherence to ART.

Project name: - Tsogolo Tsicana

Main Partner: Government of Flanders

Implementing Partners: Partnership with GCR (Girl Child Rights)

Project duration: April 2023 to March 2027

Implementation Area: Tete province, Changara Moatize districts and Tete city

Viva+ is a project implemented by ADPP in partnership with FDC (Foundation for Community Development) in 4 districts of Maputo Province (Manhiça, Marracuene, Matola and Boane), with funding from the Global Fund. The Viva+ project covers adolescent girls, boys, young women and men aged 10-14, 15-19 and 20-24, both in and out of school, with the main aim of increasing their knowledge of sexual and reproductive health, HIV prevention and skills that can contribute to reducing the risk and vulnerability of being infected with HIV, as well as supporting access to health services and legal assistance when necessary.

The main activities include (1) Promoting Social Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC), through counselling sessions in the community and schools; (2) Group education sessions for girls and boys (10-14; 15-19 years) in school on sexual and reproductive health, HIV, STIs, self-assessment of risk and access to prevention services and methods, (3) Group education sessions for girls and boys (20-24 years) outside school on sex education, including knowledge of STIs, HIV, self-assessment of risk and access to prevention services and methods; (4) Distribution of condoms to adolescents and young women (15-24) and sensitisation on their correct and consistent use; (5) Referral of adolescents and young people to Adolescent and Youth Friendly Health Services; (6) Identification and referral of sexually active adolescent girls (15-24) to start Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP); (8) Promotion of male involvement in efforts against gender inequalities and gender-based violence, through counselling sessions in schools and the community (9) Human rights education sessions in communities; (10) Community dialogues to discuss different issues that negatively affect the health of adolescent girls in communities (stigma, discrimination, gender-based violence, early marriage, early pregnancy, STIs, HIV, etc. ); (11) Screening cases of gender-based violence (GBV) and other forms of violence and referring cases to the appropriate services (health and legal services).

Full project name: Viva+

Main Partner: Global Fund 

Implementing Partner: FDC

Duration: 3 years (2024-2026)

Location: Maputo Province

The project builds on previous CFCS rounds (Round 9, R10 and R11), in which we implemented Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) with people affected by tuberculosis (TB), as well as developing CBO UNIDOS' capacity to implement CLM.

In Round 12, we will focus on scaling up CLM activities through OneImpact within the usual CFCS budget of USD 100,000/year, mainly through smart and effective networking with LTBR activists. Applying the Community-Led Monitoring process, the project will ensure that people with TB receive information and counselling on all the rights of people affected by the disease; it will offer TB-affected communities the possibility to register on the OneImpact digital platform and report the barriers they face, collaborating with health facilities (HF) to resolve the reported barriers. The project will have two levels of intervention:

A) Implement OneImpact's CLM approach in 3 districts of Zambézia, with 16 HFs in Milange, Morrumbala and Mocuba. In 6 of the 16 health facilities, there will be one First Responder and one activist per HF. For the other 10 HFs, the First Responders will collaborate with LTBR activists. UNIDOS will implement in Morrumbala and Mocuba, and ADPP in Milange. In these districts, a complete CLM approach will be implemented with a response mechanism to resolve all reported barriers, with OneImpact ‘First Responders’ in the HFs and collaborating with LTBR and UNIDOS activists. The goal is to involve 2,500 people affected by TB.

Full project name: One Impact MLC Zambézia

Main partner: Stop TB Partnership Challenge Facility Round 12

Implementing partner: UNIDOS

Duration: 12 Months (2024)

Location: Zambézia Province

The Kushinga-II project is an extension of Kushinga-I, which was implemented from April 2020 to April 2023 in the districts of Báruè and Sussundenga, in the province of Manica. Kushinga I aimed to find children and adolescents living with HIV who had not yet started treatment, so that they could receive counselling, testing and support to start and maintain antiretroviral treatment (ART). The project was aimed at children in high-risk situations, such as children of sex workers, orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) aged between 0 and 14, children born to HIV-infected mothers who have abandoned treatment and girls aged between 10 and 19. Kushinga II continued with the same focus, but did not include sex workers due to the limited timeframe of 12 months.
Priority topics for advocacy include: a) improving access to and the quality of viral load and CD4 count tests, and developing strategies to ensure testing and treatment of the project's target groups, including children of sex workers.

Key activities include index case testing, mobile HIV testing campaigns to test girls and OCVs in hard-to-reach locations, monthly community dialogues led by community leaders, Girl Brigade activities in 60 primary schools to promote HIV testing, ART literacy, the creation of community support groups (trios, positive mothers' groups, youth clubs) and the integration of all new PLHIV (people living with HIV) into community support groups.

Full project name: Kushinga II

Main partner: ViiV Healthcare

Duration: 12 Months (2024)

Location: Manica province, Báruè and Sussundenga districts

The main aim of the ‘Capacity Building of MCT’ project is to eliminate barriers in tuberculosis (TB) related services in Maputo province by revitalising and supporting the provincial network of TB survivors by December 2024.

This effort involves strengthening the Movement Against TB, an association made up of survivors, with a focus on engaging 420 people who have overcome the disease. Among the main activities are the creation of 28 survivors' clubs, training in Revolving Savings and Credit (RCP), the training of 7 community facilitators, and the holding of a workshop to engage partners and share lessons learnt. The project covers seven health units in the Matola district and is being implemented in partnership with the Movement Against TB and the technical support of ADPP. It also seeks to mobilise resources and hold regular meetings to plan and strengthen strategies for the network of survivors.

HOPE has been partnering with Ariel Glaser since 2015. Ariel Glaser is financed by CDC. The contract is on annual basis.

HOPE is mainly focusing on HIV Prevention by implementing community HIV Index case testing strategy. The main purpose is to find all people living with HIV who do not yet know their HIV status to start immediate on the lifelong treatment to achieve a suppressed viral load.

HOPE is being implemented in 3 districts districts in Cabo Delgado, namely Pemba, Chiure and Ancuabe. The main target for the 12 months is to test 34.909 family members (sexual partner(s) and children) of persons already tested HIV positive and its expected 7.680 (22%) will be tested HIV positive where at least 95% shall start on treatment. 

HOPE is also supporting the health facilities by finding all those who abandon the treatment to be mobilized and to be re-integrated back into treatment. 

Full name of the Project: HOPE Cabo Delgado

Principal Partner: Fundação Ariel Glaser 

Location: Cabo Delgado, Pemba, Chiure and Ancuabe

ADPP has got a contract with AHF for the first time for a small grant, which is an annual contract where it’s possible to apply each year with a new proposal.

Lhayisa Utomi Matola Project has been designed to respond to the Donor identified needs in four HFs namely: Lingamo, Machava I, Malhampsene and Nkobe of Matola district. A needs assessment was conducted in March 2024 and concluded that the selected HFs needs support in reintegrating PLHIV back to treatment and index testing and counselling targeting households and sexual partners of PLHIV, findings well aligned with Donor priority.  

• Conduct HIV counselling and testing to index cases of PLHIV on treatment in the targeted HFs targeting their households and the family members of the child/adolescent under 15. Test in total 3,520 family members, expected 88 will test HIV+ and initiate treatment.
• Conduct
• Tracing and reintegrating PLHIV who have either interrupted or abandoned the treatment back, through back to treatment campaigns and ad-hoc search and reintegration home visits. 
• Create and support community and family-based social support groups using TRIO model.

Lhayisa Utomi - Matola will have four counsellors and 8 activists who will mobilize and provide HIV literacy to the PLHIV on treatment from the targeted HFs. The HF-based Counsellors will work with Clinical Partner to identify index cases whose household members have not tested for HIV and plan to provide testing and counselling services. Project-supported Activists will work closely and coordinate with Clinical Partner (AHF) to get lists of ART clients who have missed their drug refilling, consultation and/or viral load check appointments to support in calling; then plan and conduct home visits to those who have interrupted and/or abandoned to get them back to treatment.  

Full name of the Project: Lhayisa Utomi (take care of health) 

Principal Partner: AIDS Health Foundation (AHF)

Location: Matola

The Sustain Producers Clubs in Tete province has been working with fisher communities along the Cahora Bassa dam in the districts of Magoe and Cahora Bassa.

Around 300 fishermen have been trained in sustainable fishing methods, fishermen associations have been established, processing of fish has been introduced and 3 have received fiberglass boats and fishing equipment so they can reach further out on the lake and catch bigger fish. The big challenge for the fishermen is sales, because they don’t have cooling facilities and therefore sell for very low prices.

Thus, this project will enhance the empowerment and capacity of fishing communities for sustainable resources management. Improve integration of fishing groups into value chains through market-related infrastructure and investments to ensure good quality fish handling and marketing under hygienic conditions. And increase access to drinking water for human consumption and productive use, and sanitation.

 Full name of the Project: Promotion of sustainable small scale fisheries in Cahora Bassa and Magoe Districts (Ecofish)

Principal Partner: EU

Implementing partners: IDEPA, The Institute for Fisheries and Aquaculture Development

Other partners: The Federation Humana People to People

Location: Tete province

In March 2019 the livelihoods of the farmers in Nhamatanda District, Sofala, were severely affected by cyclone IDAI. The post disaster assessment (2019) estimated 1 190 596 people were affected only in Sofala province. Agriculture was the most affected sector.

The main objective of the project was to settle, through a community-driven approach, recovery activities focused on strengthening livelihoods resilience and sustainable economic recovery, while promoting gender equality, inclusiveness, and green growth.

It targeted a total of 3,000 households (15,000 people) by working with 52 existing farmer groups living in the Indeja Resettlement Centre. At least 50% of the target farmers are women.

The support to farmer groups included seed distribution, technical assistance and training in sustainable production techniques and in production of horticulture and installation of low cost irrigation systems powered by solar energy.

To diversify family incomes, the project has also supported groups of women in developing income generation activities/ micro enterprises in processing and in sales of horticulture or second-hand clothes on local markets.

Training in business skills were also developed especially as ADPP has developed simple market spaces in nearby districts Lamego and Tica, with funding from ExxonMobil, that farmers and women entrepreneurs can use to generate extra incomes.

All project trainings respected COVID-19 prevention measures.

 Full name of the Project: Livelihood and economic recovery for farmer households in Nhamatanda

Principal Partner:  UNDP Recovery Facility with 10 bilateral donors

Other partners:  Humana People to People member associations: Austria, Finland

Location: Sofala province

Cyclone Idai brought destruction and damage to Sofala, Manica, Tete, Zambézia and Inhambane provinces on March 2019. The cyclone was followed by floods, resulting in an estimated 1.85 million people needing urgent humanitarian assistance and protection.

Nhamatanda district was one of the most affected areas in Sofala province. As 90% of its households rely on agriculture as their main livelihood, the communities were in urgent need of recovering their food Security through a life-sustaining assistance by rebuilding their own lives, producing their own food and ensuring that everyone have access to enough food and well-being.

For that, the project has restored local community food production fields and market so that farmers can better sell their products; trained community members on women economic empowerment; and promoted good public health practices in the community;

This was done by providing agricultural inputs; helping the start of community rotating savings and loans; training community farmers on agribusiness; and conducting community health behavior change communication campaigns.

 Full name of the Project: Resilient Farmers’ Club in Nhamatanda 

Principal Partner:  ExxonMobil Moçambique  Limitada, Yara International ASA

Location: Tica and Nhamatanda, Sofala province,

Other Partners: Humana People to People member associations: Austria and  Finland

Location: Sofala province

Cashew is the only source of revenue production in Itoculo.

Cashew and Rural Development Center in Itoculo is running a cashew plantation, a cashew nut and a cashew juice processing units as well as a training center for local producers of cashew in Itoculo, Monapo District.

Both producing and processing have been part of the centers’ main activities in 2019.

The production of cashew, processing of its derivatives and training of the local small producers in good practices are the main activities for income of the cashew center.

Organic cashew production with natural pesticide is a new method that ADPP started in April 2018 aiming at reducing the use of chemicals for the treatment of cashew trees. This practice was also introduced to small producers as a way to improve the quality of production, productivity and profitability within families. Associated with this practice, the Itoculo Cashew Center hosts the production of certified cashew nuts (Polyclonal Seeds) for sowing in its plantation and for sale to other producers.

Full name of the Project: Itoculo Cashew and Rural Development Center

Principal Partner: Incaju, Institute for promotion of Cashew

Other partners: Humana People to People member associations: HPP Austria

Location: Nampula province

The Reduction of Rural Poverty and Inequalities in Mocuba District’ project, implemented in Zambézia province between 2023 and 2026, aims to improve the living conditions of small farmers and their families by promoting food security and access to economic and social resources. The initiative is funded by the MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland) in partnership with UFF Finland, with the aim of training 1,000 families to adopt conservation agriculture practices, where more than 50 per cent of the beneficiaries are women and 20 per cent young people under the age of 20.

The project operates in three administrative posts in Mocuba, namely Namanjavira, Mocuba-sede and Mugeba, focusing on diversifying and increasing sustainable agricultural production, access to markets and financial resources, and promoting good hygiene and sanitation practices. In addition, there is a strong social inclusion component, which supports women, young people and people with disabilities to actively participate in decisions that affect their lives and communities.

Among the main goals are: creating 20 demonstration fields, planting 20,000 trees, training 1,000 farmers in planning and business, as well as training 60 women and young people in income generation. The project also fosters improved sanitation conditions and infrastructure resilience to climate change, promoting the general well-being of rural communities.

This integrated effort between agricultural development, financial empowerment and improved sanitation contributes to poverty reduction and the promotion of equal opportunities in the Mocuba district, directly benefiting thousands of people and strengthening local communities for a more sustainable and inclusive future.

Full project name: Reducing rural poverty and inequalities in the Mocuba district

Main partner: MFA - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland

Location: Zambézia Province

The COMMUNITY DEMAND DRIVEN FUND (CDDF) project, financed by the World Bank through UNOPS and the FNDS, is being implemented in the regions of Angoche, Larde, Moma and Mossuril in the province of Nampula, with a budget of $9,585,000 and a duration of 26 months (from 16 February 2024 to 31 March 2026). The project is led by ADPP in consortium with NCBA CLUSA and aims to improve access to livelihood opportunities for 19,750 vulnerable families by promoting the sustainable management of natural resources.

The CDDF aims to contribute to improving access to livelihood opportunities for vulnerable communities and natural resource management in selected rural areas of northern Mozambique. In addition, the project aims to mitigate the impacts of competition for natural resources and the pressure generated by climate variability. This objective will be achieved through four components, namely (1) Livelihoods and Community Infrastructure, (2) Natural Resource Management, (3) Multi-actor Coordination and Project Management and (4) Emergency Contingency Response.

The aim of the CDDF is to support 79 communities in developing community agendas and implementing projects that improve sustainable and resilient livelihoods.

At the end of its implementation, it is expected that governance and financial management capacity and economic sustainability will have been increased for the 79 vulnerable local communities; access to sustainable livelihood opportunities will have been improved for the 79 vulnerable local communities; and the sustainable management of natural resources by the 79 vulnerable local communities will have been improved, contributing to the sustainability of their livelihoods.

Full name of the Project:  MozNorte - Community Demand Driver Fund (CDDF).

Principal Partner: UNOPS

Location: Nampula province, districts of Angoche, Larde, Moma, and Mossuril.

The project will support local community groups to improve food security and develop sustainable income generating activities that will support their children to stay in school and continue studying. 

20 Farmers Clubs (FCs) created with 1,000 farmer families to adopt conservation farming agriculture practices and other measures to improve their food security)

·      Establishment of 20 demonstration plots with rope water pumps, irrigation systems, tools and seeds for production of vegetables, stable and cash crops.

·      The members will be trained in conservation farming and agroforestry methods. 

·      Installation of 2 Sasso chicken mother units. 

·      20 small nurseries created in the Farmers’ Clubs 

·      Construction of nurseries, procurement of planting bags, transport of fertile soil and seeds, production of 20,000 fruit trees, fodder trees and firewood trees 

1,000 farmers trained in production and business planning and linked to the market, 

·      20 farmers’ club will be registered as associations enabling the farmers to sell their products in bulks and negotiate better prices.

·      Installation of 2 maize mills and training of 2 maize mill committees

·      Installation of 400 family storage facilities

·      60 women and youth will be trained in alternative income generation and supported to develop business plans, apply for business start-ups, business mentorship, and market linkages.

·      20 savings and credit groups will be established enabling the farmers to get small credits.

1,000 farmers’ families learn about nutrition, sanitation, health, human rights snd about climate change

·      The club members will learn about how to improve nutrition and participate in cooking demonstrations using healthy local products to enrich their menu.

·      The 1,000 members will be tained in construction of; latrines, tippy tap system for hand washing, dish rags, rubbish pits and firewood saving stoves. 

·      1,000 farmers will learn about how to prevent malaria, HIV/AIDS, TB and Covid19.

·      The 1,000 farmers will learn about human rights and the importance of education for all children included girls and children with handicaps. 

·      1,000 farmers’ families will learn about climate change the background and how to mitigate

 Implementation

The project will be implemented in community areas around Mocuba in Zambezia province, where also an education project financed by MFA finland is implemented. There will be a cooperation between the agriculture and education programs, where the pupils will visit the farmers’ fields and learn about agriculture and the farmers will be involved in the functioning of the primary schools ex being members of the school councils.

Full name of the Project: Farmers’ Clubs Mocuba

Principal Partner: MFA Finland

Location: Zambézia, Mocuba

ADPP has entered in a consortium with the Aga Khan Foundation where the Aga Khan Foundation is the lead. Other members of the consortium are GAPI, H2N, MSP and Smart Farming BV. 

The project will benefit 25,000 small scale farmers in 8 districts: Montepuez, Ancuabe, Balama, Namuno, Chiure, Mecufi, Pemba and Metuge in Cabo Delgado Province

ADPP will cover Mecufi, Pemba, Ancuabe and Metuge and the Aga Khan Foundation: Montepuez, Balama, Namuno and Chiure. Furthermore, the project will have a nutrition component where ADPP will be the lead technical partner.

The objectives are:

• double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women and youth, family farmers including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment; 
• ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality;

The role of ADPP

ADPP will reach out to 11,000 producers (farmers and fishers). They will be organized in clubs consisting of each 50 members. A club will have a committee consisting of 5 members, who will be trained in good management and leadership. Each club will select 5 lead producers who will work together with and train 9 farmers in demonstration plots. A Producers’ Unit Instructor is connected to 10 Producers’ Clubs and will train the Lead Producers in the demonstration fields, giving two trainings per month. The producers will learn about conservation farming methods, how to diversify and increase the production, storage, processing and sales of products and nutrition. Each district will have an agriculture district leader, who will train and support the Producers’ Unit Instructors and have monthly evaluation and planning meetings. 

In the coastal areas, fishers will be organized into producers’ clubs. They will learn about sustainable fishing, improved processing and sales, production of vegetables in household gardens and nutrition.

ADPP will have a lead technical position to implement the nutrition program in all the producers’ clubs in the 8 districts. At the provincial level, a nutrition specialist will prepare training, materials and programs for the District Nutrition Facilitators, who will train Nutrition committees embedded in each producers’ club.  Community leaders will be trained and radio program with nutrition information will be broadcasted.

Full name of the Project: Producers’ Clubs Cabo Delgado

Principal Partner: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (MoFA), via the Embassy of the Netherlands in Maputo

Location: Cabo Delgado

The project responds to the urgent need to assist Internally Displaced People (IDPs) who fled their homes, mainly from Northern Cabo Delgado to Pemba and surrounding districts like Metuge. Project RCD will support 28,000 IDPs and host community members to develop diversified livelihoods in agriculture and other small-scale production by participating in 100 Producers Clubs.  There will be 64 Producers Clubs of 3,200 producers funded by USAID. ENI’s leverage funding will enable project RCD to add 36 Producers Club activities to benefit 1,800 producers. These activities will result in an estimated 50% increase in food production and income for vulnerable people by project completion among both IDP populations and host community members, helping them achieve recovery and food security without relying on humanitarian aid. 

To further support IDP and host community households, ENI leverage funding will support the operation of a School Feeding Program to provide daily meals for 4,000 children.

Producers´ Clubs:

For the first 1.5 to 2 years, Producers´ Club members will build up food security for all 5,000 families in Metuge district.  In the 3rd and 4th years of the project, the focus will be on creating sustainable food security. Farmers and Producers will be supported from the second year, to establish packing and storage facilities mainly for vegetables, diversify their production, start animal husbandry (chickens), sell to the market; venture into processing (grinding mills, drying of vegetables).  This vegetable washing and packing facility will support the establishment of several value chain agreements between producers and buyers. To date, ADPP has managed to get off-takers for the produce, one of which is the Paquitequete school feeding program. 

To strengthen economic pathways, particularly for youth, with an emphasis on agricultural value chains, and improving youth training and employment systems

Project RCD will support 2,000 youth from IDP and host communities, who will benefit from life skills courses and communications skills development, including 600 who will also benefit from vocational training and entrepreneurial skills training. These activities will be implemented by both ADPP and h2n via 2 Youth Centers  (1 in Metuge and 1 in Pemba) and outreach activities. During outreach activities, the center leaders and facilitators reach out to all the communities and focus on awareness building and activities reaching out to girls and young women.  The result will be that participating youth will develop skills to competitively secure formal employment in the marketplace, initiate income-generating activities on their own, and build social cohesion in this volatile setting. UNOPS leverage funding will enable project RCD to expand youth activities and benefit an additional number of young people.  The project has a specific focus on positive youth development –bearing in mind that the youth can be a positive driving force if and when given the right support and opportunities. 

The program includes a 3 months course followed by a 2 months preparation period for the youth and girls’ future plans. The also includes scholarships for 10 youth to EPF, support to youth who seek employment, and support to youth who wants to start up their own small business with start-up kits. A mentoring system with volunteer mentors from the private sector will support youth starting up their small businesses in the second year.  

Strengthen information-sharing platforms and promote Youth Positive Empowerment 

Project RCD will strengthen networks and information-sharing between private sector companies looking for local talent and youth that are searching and properly prepared for employment in the modern economy. ADPP will implement activities on this component, providing direct, practical support (including career counseling, support to access private sector internships, and more) to enable the 2,000 targeted youth to develop and utilize in-demand skills, preparing them to play a role in the new economy emerging in Cabo Delgado.

Full name of the Project: Recovery in Cabo Delgado, (RCD)

Principal Partner: USAID  with leverage partners ENI

Location: Cabo Delgado, Pemba, Chiure and Ancuabe

Decent life for families displaced due to the armed conflict in Cabo Delgado.

The province of Cabo Delgado faces challenges of rising violent extremism, along the porous border with Tanzania. Since October 5, 2017, the districts of Mocímboa da Praia, Palma, Macomia, Nangade, Muidumbe, Mueda, Quissanga and Metuje have experienced dozens of separate violent extremist incidents involving suspected Islamist militants.

In 2020 the terrorist groups have moved from peripheral areas to attack and take over district capitals. The fighting has resulted in the loss of lives, destruction of housing and crops by the local communities and alarming numbers of internally displaced people.

In the first phase the project intends to reach out to 1,632 displaced families in Montepuez and 261 in Chiure with humanitarian emergency support and some basic means to establish their livelihoods in the new locations. The humanitarian support will include the distribution of food and clothes packages.

Full name of the Project: Support to Internally Displaced People in Cabo Delgado in Chiure & Montepuez 

Principal Partner:  World Jewish Relief, START FUND

Implementing Partner:  Action Aid,  INGC, Fundação Wiwanana

Location:  Cabo Delgado province

Over 2.2 million people live in the province of Cabo Delgado in Mozambique. A province that has been hit by a wave of violence since October 2017, and which escalated significantly since January 2020. This is causing over 50,000 people displaced and in need of urgent humanitarian assistance.

Access to primary health care in Cabo Delgado is a challenge, because health workers are fleeing for safety; as health facilities are being destroyed or vandalized across the province. This is worsened by the COVID-19 outbreak, which placed, at some point, Cabo Delgado on top of the confirmed infections.

The project has trained 50 community health agents to fill the gap of health professionals to reach out into the communities with COVID-19 awareness; and linking contacts of positive cases with the COVID-19 testing Lab in Pemba. The training materials are from the Ministry of Health, and will follow approved national protocols on COVID-19 prevention. The project will also distribute 2,000 facemasks and WASH materials and 100 hoes of several seeds, crucial to the survival of the displaced people.

The trained community agents engaged in COVID-19 awareness campaigns, benefitted not only these beneficiaries but also others within the targeted communities by promoting correct use of face masks, regular hand washing and observing social distancing levels.

Full name of the Project: COVID-19 prevention among Internally Displaced People in Chiure and Metuge

Principal Partner:  World Jewish Relief, START FUND

Implementing Partner:  Action Aid

Location:  Cabo Delgado province

This project responds to COVID-19 in Nhamatanda district. Prevention of COVID-19 has not reached the majority of this area, because most pamphlets distributed in urban areas. Thus, rural communities, such as Nhamatanda, lacked this information, especially in their languages.

The project trained 5 activists and 2team leader in covid prevention. Special attention was given to women, children and elder people, securing that they are reached by the messages. Women headed households, families with under 5 years’ old children or elder people of above 60 were given priority.

In addition, the project purchased WASH materials (buckets and soap) that were used in trainings explaining that those who do not have soap can use ash as recommended by the Ministry of health.

The most vulnerable 400 households received buckets, soap, disinfectant and masks after they received awareness and training. The activists used Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), such as, disinfectants, masks and gloves during the activities.

ADPP and partners support primary schools in Manica province for safe retorn of classes.

This project aims to address two clear issues in Manica province: the disruption of children’s education and the disruption of livelihoods for vulnerable families.

The project targets 4,000 students and 800 families to benefit by being provided with COVID-19 safety packs for school children, sensitization and awareness campaigns on Covid-19 prevention measures that involve students and their families, installing water tanks and hand washing apparatuses at schools, and providing agricultural livelihood inputs for some particularly in-need families.

The project will target beneficiaries in Manica provinces whose education and livelihoods were severely disrupted by Cyclone Idai and then further disrupted by the arrival of the COVID-19, compounding their already difficult circumstances.

To address the issue of children’s education, the project will ensure that when schools are scheduled to re-open in February 2021, the children are able to mitigate the risk of spreading COVID-19 among their classmates and their families.

Full name of the Project: Helping Schools in Manica and Sofala to prevent the spread of COVID-19 

Principal Partner:  World Jewish Relief, START FUND

Implementing Partner:  Action Aid, District Services of Education, Youth and Technology

Location: Manica province

In the outskirts of Beira city warehouses, a processing unit and other infrastructure of ADPP Second Hand were severely impacted.

The damages wrought to the buildings and clothes in stock were overwhelming. In response, ADPP Taskforce of volunteers from other projects was organized to start the rebuilding of the center, while the administration and project leadership moved to other places to ensure the continuation of the clothes and shoes sales in areas of the country not directly impacted by the cyclone. Workers from the sorting center and the Taskforce joined hands and cleaned up the place, constructing makeshift covered areas, which made it possible to restart the production after a few weeks. When the situation was stable, the project leadership and administration teams moved back to their place of work, while the recovery work continued for the rest of the year.

When the ADPP Teacher Training College and the Vocational school in Nhamatanda were flooded, the entire population of students, teachers and community members had to run for their lives, leaving everything behind.

After the first responders announced that the most feared scenario was unfolding, ADPP Taskforce from Chimoio went into action. They worked tirelessly in the days following, and managed to get school staff and students to safe ground.

All affected students and teachers were moved to another ADPP educational centers

When it was safe to, the school center was cleaned up and it was scary to see that the water had reached the ceiling in some places. Using various sources of funds, including from the insurance company and some donations, a part of the reconstruction and refurbishing was executed in 2019.  Before the end of the year the students could return back to the center and write their exams.

One of the projects under implementing in Nhamatanda district was supporting 2.250 farmers. and was in the final stages of implementation.

It had contributed to significantly improved livelihoods of the farmers. However, the tremendous strength of the floods annihilated everything in its path resulting in at least 75% of the farmers and entire communities losing almost everything: crops, belongings and shelter. With support from some partners and well-wishers ADPP launched a “Start over Again” campaign which facilitated needed support for community members and farmers in order to restore their agricultural production and livelihoods.

Among these, were the 2.250 farmers who towards the end of the year were reporting improvements in their food security, as they had started, step by step to recover their livelihoods.

Heavy rains and storms have been impacting the regions of Nhamatanda, Maringué, Gorongosa, Buzi, Caia and Cheringoma, in mid February 2020, leading to flooding which has affected 14.319 households or 71,000 persons.

World Jewish Relief made a “Start Fund Alert” to provide emergency relief to the affected communities, specifically to elderly people, pregnant and lactating women, people with disabilities and young girls.

ADPP Mozambique implemented the project in Nhamatanda and Maringué districts. These are the same communities who also got affected by the tropical Cyclone IDAI, in February 2019, where they lost everything: shelter, land, crops and, clothes and other belongings and even their lives. These communities still haven’t been able to build back their livelihood, but many had already planted new crops.

The project distributed Family Food Packages for 700 families in Nhamatanda and 800 in Marínguè districts and Hygiene for 300 families in Maringue enough for an average family of five (5) during one month.

This allowed us to relief from hunger and deprivation 1,500 families from the districts of Nhamatanda and Maringue, and implemented WASH campaigns to reduce the burden of the water borne diseases in the resettlement areas.

Full name of the  Project: Emergency food assistance and WASH in Nhamatanda and Maringue

Principal Partner:  World Jewish Relief, START FUND

Implementing Partner: Action Aid, INGC

Location: Sofala Province

ADPP Mozambique is implementing a project called "Humanitarian Action in Maputo Province" which will benefit a total of 590 families and 3,250 schoolchildren in Maputo province over 9 months, in a partnership with the Pueblo for Pueblo Foundation, officially launched on June 1, 2024, in the city of Matola.

This project essentially aims to help improve the living conditions of the people affected by Tropical Cyclone Severo Filipo, by distributing clothing kits, food and hygiene kits to the families who were sheltered in the reception centers in the districts of Bunhiça, Fomento, Nkobe, Nwamatibjana, Sikwama and Tsalala.

The project will provide school, teaching and hygiene materials to 3,250 pupils and 100 teachers, covering a total of 11 schools; it will also restore learning spaces by renovating 5 classrooms, 6 latrines and 6 water systems; and it will create and revitalize 14 Disaster Risk Reduction and Child Protection Committees in the aforementioned neighbourhoods.

This project is being implemented by ADPP Mozambique in coordination with the Provincial Directorate for Gender, Children and Social Action; the Provincial Directorate for Education and the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGD); and with funding from the Pueblo for Pueblo Foundation.