Mozambique: Transform Nutrition project

In 2023, ADPP Mozambique received a grant of US$90,000 from Humana People to People Foundation for the project “Transform Nutrition”. The grant complements funding from the main partner, the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Transform Nutrition is a six-year project that started in 2019 in four districts in Mozambique and from 2020 expanded to the remaining eight districts, making a total of 12 districts until the end of the project in 2025.

The project assists the government of Mozambique in developing capacity to plan and manage multi-sectoral nutrition, sanitation and hygiene programming. Efforts focus on improving the nutritional status of pregnant and lactating women, adolescent girls and children less than two years of age, in order to reduce stunting rates in Nampula.

The engagement of community leaders and community health committees has been critical in influencing a positive change in eating habits and improving status of the target population. So far, 625 communities with Health Committees were strengthened.

In 2023, a total of 241,675 children under five (0-59 months) were reached with community-level nutrition interventions through the program.