Northern Mozambique Crisis – Flash Report - Newly Displaced Families in EPC Mecula, Mecula Niassa (4 December 2021)

Due to the hostilities in Naulala and its environs (approximately 60 kilometers from Mecula Sede), which are located in the Mecula district of Niassa province, on 4 December 2021, IOM's DTM team in conjunction with Mozambique’s National Institute for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction (INGD), conducted an assessment in the displacement location of EPC Mecula (a school that is currently being used as a temporary accommodation centre; located in Mutopene bairro in Mecula sede of Mecula district). According to the assessment, this centre houses an estimated 682 individuals (205 households).

All of the displaced people attributed their movements to heightened hostilities and fears of insecurity in their home communities. The majority of IDPs cited Naulala and Gomba as their previous residences.

Results from the assessment show that while IDP families have received some form of shelter assistance (NFIs, emergency shelter, technical, and labor assistance), and nearly 75 per cent of displaced families have received some form of food distribution, all of the aforementioned assistance came from INGD. While all of the aforementioned assistance came from INGD, the IDPs remain in desperate need of additional humanitarian assistance.