INGD needs over 700 million dollars to implement action plan for internally displaced

Maputo, 2 Apr (AIM) – Mozambique’s relief agency, the National Institute for Disaster Risk Management (INGD), needs 48.9 billion meticais (764.1 million dollars at the current exchange rate) to implement its Action Plan for the Management of Internally Displaced People (PEGDI), over the next five years.

According to INGD chairperson, Luísa Meque, who was speaking on Tuesday in Maputo during the launch of the PEGDI, over 800,000 people are displaced in the country. Most of the displaced people are affected by extreme violence carried out by Islamist terrorists in the northern province of Cabo Delgado and by the natural disasters that have struck the country in recent months.

“We refer to the destruction of homes, where families have lost their possessions, some due to terrorism, others because they have suffered from the impacts of cyclones. Natural disasters have affected many families”, she said.

With the implementation of PEGDI, she said, “we hope to reduce the number of people at risk of displacement and create a favorable environment to find lasting solutions, through the provision of essential services during their return, local integration and integration elsewhere in the country.”

The number of internally displaced people rose from 709,000 to over 800,000 between 2023 and 2025.

According to Meque, these figures are worrying and there is a need to boost humanitarian assistance.

“This plan defines actions to respond to internal displacement and poverty reduction in terms of access to basic social services such as education, health, sanitation and water supply, social inclusion and security, as well as economic protection and opportunities”, she said.

The chairperson also revealed that, during the peak of the terrorist attacks in Cabo Delgado, around 1.4 million people were displaced. Of this number, around 600,000 people have already returned to their areas of origin.

(AIM)
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