Projects

Project: extension project fast TB detection to COVID-19 detection in Mozambique Beneficiary: APOPO asbl Amount: 599,970 euros Duration: 15 months (from October 2020) APOPO has been a partner of the Flemish development cooperation in Mozambique since 2009. The organization has been working on TB detection in Maputo since 2013 and has an extensive network of local partners, a good infrastructure and experienced staff. An important problem in the fight against Covid-19 is the very limited testing capacity in the African region. More laboratory capacity is also urgently needed.

Project: protection staff of AfriCoVER project  Beneficiary: Institutio Nacional de Saude Mozambique (INS)  Amount: 87,000 euros  Duration: 12 months The AfriCoVER project aims to better understand the transmissibility and epidemic spread of COVID-19 in Mozambique and Sub-Saharan Africa. This way, medical and preventive resources and strategies can be used more effectively and efficiently. For Sub-Saharan Africa, it is important that the role of other infectious diseases such as TB and AIDS, of specific social interactions and of asymptomatic infections is also examined.

Project: Strengthening the health system in Mozambique Beneficiary: Population Services Internatonal Amount: 1 500 000 euro Duration: 2020 - 2023 Strengthen the capacity and motivation for delivering Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights services to adolescents. Through training, data analysis to support decisions in health posts and by increasing the demand for SRHR services through a communication campaign.  

Project: Health, Education and Adolescents Rights in Mozambique Beneficiary: Ariel Glader Foundation and União a Vida Amount: 880 366 euro Duration: 2020 - 2023 Strengthen the health system and its human capacity, and the service and development of education and health programs, both with strong involvement of adolescents. Via a mobile “adolescent-friendly” health service, both health workers are trained and direct health services are offered.

Project: Leaving no adolescent behind: improving access to inclusive, gender sensitive and quality sexual and reproductive health care services in Mozambique Beneficiary: Doctors for Africa and ICHR-Mozambique Amount: 1 500 000 euro Duration: 2020 - 2023 Strengthening the link between health facilities, communities and schools, with specific attention to excluded young people.

Project: An Inclusive, Positive Deviance Approach to improving Adolescent Reproductive and Sexual Health Services and Communications in Mozambique Beneficiary: PCI Media,  ICHR-Mozambique and TV Surdo Amount: 1 499 795 euro Duration: 2020 - 2024 Increase motivation and sharpen the skills of health professionals who provide information to adolescents about Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights through an innovative communication toolkit. There is special attention for young people who live with a disability.  

Project: Organisation of a training in Mozambique for the capacity building in Africa on underwater cultural heritage Beneficiary: Unesco Amount: 92.650 USD Duration: 2019 – 2020 This project aims to improve the protection and management of maritime and underwater cultural heritage in the African countries, within the framework of the principles and standards of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. A regional training course is planned on legal protection and practical management of underwater cultural heritage.

Project: Scaling up the VCT @ Work Initiative in Mozambique Beneficiary: ILO (via Flanders - ILO Trustfund) Amount: 187.364 euro Duration: February 2017 – Fbruary 2019 There has been a lot of progress worldwide in combating HIV / AIDS, but discrepancies remain. For example, 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV are not aware of his or her status, this is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa where only 45% are aware of his or her status.

Project: “Realizing younger adolescents’ sexual and reproductive rights”  Beneficiary: The Intenational Centre for Reproductive Health Mozambique  (ICRH-Mozambique) Amount: 1.119.810 euros Duration: 2018 - 2021 The project is based on existing partnerships and experiences between Flanders and ICHR-Mozambique. The aim of the initiative is to focus on young adolescents and to increase the sexual education of this group. The direct target group consists of 5000 girls and 5000 boys between 10 and 19 years.

Beneficiary: Red Cross-Flanders Amount: 2.500.000 euro Period: 2018 - 2020 Mozambique and Malawi are one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change due to extreme droughts, flooding and storms,... Climate change has a strong impact on the quality of peoples’ lives and the socio-economic conditions of the population are under pressure. International Red Cross-Flanders will focus on strengthening local Red Cross and Red Crescent sections in Malawi and Mozambique. Red Cross wil cooperate directly with local institutions.

Project: Coordinaton of the humanitarian consortium COSACA in Mozambique Beneficiary: Oxfam Solidariteit Budget: 478.793,16 euro Duration: 2018 – 2019 COSACA consists of the international aid organizations Oxfam, CARE International, Save the Children and Concern Worldwide. Through joint and coordinated action, COSACA has been working to increase capacity for disaster preparedness, response, and coordination. The emergency and humanitarian consortium wants to develop a new coordination structure.

Project: allocation of an independent expert public finance to the Ministry of Health (MISAU)  Beneficiary: BTC (Belgian Development Agency) Amount: 694,950 euros Duration: 2017 - 2020 Since 2013, Flanders finances an expert public finance to support the ministry of Health and to coordinate the GTAF working group. The GTAF is the forum to investigate and discuss the Public Finance Management of the Ministry of Health (MISAU / DAF). The GTAF is responsible for following up financial management and for the dialogue between the donors and the ministry.

Project: Reinforcement of the Health System Management of the Health Care Administration of the Province Tete in Mozambique through international technical assistance  Beneficiary: BTC (Belgian Development Agency) Amount: 616.130 euros Period: 2017 – 2019 Due to the announced withdrawal of the Danish development cooperation from the province of Tete, the implementation of the strategic plan for the health sector in Tete is jeopardized due to the lack of expertise. With the Flemish subsidy to the BTC the provincial Healthcare Administration can call on the expertise and technical support o

Project: Programme to improve sexual and reproductive health in adolescents and women with a focus on enhanced acces to contraception, HIV and STD prevention Partner: Doctors with Africa (CUAMM) Budget: 2.000.000 euros Duration: 2017-2020 Doctors with Africa (CUAMM) has been working in Mozambique since 1978 and has a good reputation among various partners. With this programme, the NGO aims to improve the sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and women in Mozambique.

Project: the development of better health care on the basis of evidence-based medicine (EBM) Beneficiary: Instituto Nacional de Saúde Mozambique (INS), the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) Duration: 2014-2017 Budget: 1.201.91 euro This budget is for Phase II. For Phase I, which ran from 2013 to February 2015, a budget of EUR 926,805 had already been appropriated, of which EUR 689,755 was intended for INS and EUR 237,050 for ITG. Through this aid the Government of Flanders wants to further the development of better health care on the basis of evidence-based medicine (EBM).

Project: introducing scientific and technical knowhow on aquaculture, or aquafarming, in Mozambique Beneficiary: Ghent university, Can-Tho University (Vietnam), Instituto Nacional de Investigação Pesqueira (Mozambique) Duration: 2010-2012 Budget: 98.005 euro Aquaculture is the process where aquatic organisms, such as fish and shellfish, are bred in ponds and basins to be sold on the market later. Aquaculture is still a very young technique in Mozambique, and the production process still needs a lot of improving.

Project: support to entrepreneurs in the South by making experts available Beneficiary: Ex-Change Duration: 2011-2016 Budget: 3.000.000 Ex-Change gives support to entrepreneurs in the South by making experts available to them. During short expertise assignments they provide assistance to SMEs in the South. Within the framework of the cooperation with the partner countries Malawi, Mozambique and South Africa, the reinforcement of local enterprises, and especially SMEs, is focused on as well. Many small enterprises in the South invest in their own region and create jobs.

Project: improve access to high quality services regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights for female sex workers and their clients Beneficiary:  “International Centre for Reproductive Health” (ICRH) Duration: 2010-2013 Budget: 553.046 euro In the Moatize District is a clinic where personnel provides information and extension services regarding sexual health in the evenings. They offer these services to two specific target groups who are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS and STDs, namely female sex workers and truck drivers.

Project: increasing the number of available health personnel in Mozambique Beneficiary: WHO Duration: 2005-2011 Budget: 587.600 euro  The Human Resources for Health programme (HRH) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) aims to reinforce the Mozambican Ministry of Health. By doing so, the WHO gears towards increasing the number of available health personnel, in order to offer better health services to the community. With its 0.03 doctors and 0.21 nurses per 1000 people, Mozambique has one of the lowest densities of health workers in Africa.

Project: strengthening the Mozambican technical education by supporting the building of instruction rooms Beneficiary: Society of the Salesians of Don Bosco Duration: 2009-2011 Budget: 1.800.000 euro At the end of the Mozambican civil war, the Salesian society, among others, devoted itself to help develop the country’s technical education. In 1994, a Salesian network for professional education was created (“Rede Salesiana de Formaçao Profissional em Moçambique”).