[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1135, 497], "category": "Text", "text": "people and the destruction of public and private infrastructures. Women constitute 65% of the displaced population³. Despite efforts to improve security with the deployment of international forces, conflict persists and the renewed intensification of attacks at the beginning of 2024, fuelled concerns of a potential spillover of the conflict in the neighboring provinces of Niassa and Nampula, that experience poverty and structural challenges, similar to Cabo Delgado. Prior to the conflict, the region faced challenges with already limited access to social services. The conflict worsened the already fragile situation creating a dire humanitarian crisis, further disrupting essential services. Displacements put a strain on host communities, deepening poverty and weakening social cohesion. Displaced population - especially women and children - run risks associated with sexual and reproductive health due to adaptation mechanisms that tend to include transactional sex, sexual work and early marriage, as well as sexual and physical violence⁴. Furthermore, according to Mozambique's latest population census in 2017, it was estimated that 2.6 percent of the population live with a disability. Particularly concerning are the vulnerabilities faced by women, girls and children with disabilities due to significant gaps in accessing basic necessities and services."}, {"bbox": [96, 521, 1135, 630], "category": "Text", "text": "The intertwining of conflict with pre-existing vulnerabilities, fosters an environment conducive to criminality, with corruption posing additional challenges on economic stability and security of the region. Furthermore, the ability of insurgent groups to operate points to a lack of cooperation between first responders, law enforcement, international forces and criminal justice institutions."}, {"bbox": [96, 653, 1135, 894], "category": "Text", "text": "The action will support Mozambique in improving the availability, quality, and accessibility of essential services, with a specific emphasis on water and education in Cabo Delgado and the northern provinces of Niassa and Nampula, focusing on districts most affected by the conflict and the displacement crisis, integrating a gender perspective, a human rights-based approach (HRBA) and the inclusion of persons with disabilities. Priority will be given to districts where stabilization efforts rehabilitated public buildings and that, due to large numbers of IDPs, had to stretch an already weak service system. Additionally, it will address intertwined security challenges such as terrorism, organized crime, corruption, and illicit financial flows. It will focus on enhancing law enforcement and criminal justice responses by strengthening institutional capacities; by aligning national frameworks with international standards; and by fostering inter-agency cooperation."}, {"bbox": [96, 917, 1135, 1106], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action - Stabilization for the North - will contribute to the Multi Annual Indicative Programme (MIP) 2021-2027, priority area 3 ‘Governance, Peace and Just Society’ and its specific objectives of “Strengthen democratic system (transparency, accountability and the rule of law) and economic governance frameworks for a more inclusive and just society in Mozambique” and “enhance social cohesion and to reinforce peace and stability through the humanitarian-development-peace nexus”. The Action aims to support the short and medium term development strategies of the Government of Mozambique in an integrated manner encompassing humanitarian, development and peace aspects."}, {"bbox": [96, 1129, 1135, 1343], "category": "Text", "text": "The proposed Action builds on the ResiNorte program approved in 2022 and the current support from the Commission in the northern provinces of Mozambique, which in turn aligns with the “Resilience and Integrated Development Program for the North” of the Government (PREDIN). It will benefit from synergies with several ongoing projects including i) AguaNorte programme, which aims at increasing access to water and sanitation services in the North, ii) SER - Support to Education Reform, iii) NutriNorte programme aiming at improving nutritional status of children under five years, adolescent, pregnant and lactating women and will be built on humanitarian and short-term EU financed actions, as well as actions implemented in the framework of the EU civil society programme."}, {"bbox": [96, 1366, 1135, 1422], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action will contribute to SDG 1 (no poverty), SDG 4 (quality education), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation), SDG 10 (Reduced inequalities) and SDG 16 (Peace, justice and strong institutions)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1459, 505, 1491], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 1.3 Zone benefitting from the Action"}, {"bbox": [85, 1502, 955, 1530], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action shall be carried out in Mozambique, country included in the list of ODA recipients."}, {"bbox": [85, 1597, 1010, 1622], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³ Gender Equality Profile Mozambique, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Action, Maputo, August 2022"}, {"bbox": [85, 1622, 1130, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ Country Level Implementation Plan (CLIP) Mozambique | Gender Action Plan (GAP) III, 2021-2025, EUD to Mozambique"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 33"}]