Northern Mozambique Crisis — Multi-Sectorial Location Assessment Report 4 (July 2021)

From 21 June to 3 July 2021, in close coordination with the provincial government of Cabo Delgado, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) teams conducted Multi-Sectoral Location Assessments (MSLA) in 42 sites hosting 144,515 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Cabo Delgado province, 1 site with 3,969 IDPs in Nampula province, and 2 sites with 360 IDPs in Niassa province, in response to the mass displacements caused by the insecurity situation in the north. In all sites, the majority of IDPs were displaced by the insecurity situation.

Of the total 148,844 individuals in the assessed sites, 39,980 (or 27%) are women, 27,093 (18%) are men, and 81,771 (55%) are children. Figures 2 and 3 are based on a random sampling of twenty households taken at each site.