Mozambique

Fishing boat returning to shore in Maputo, Mozambique. © Take One Productions

Three out of four people in Mozambique live below the poverty line. Access to even the most basic services – such as water, healthcare and schooling – is limited. We share the country’s ambition to transform itself from a poor and post-conflict nation to a thriving gateway of trade and investment in the region.

UK aid will drive positive change in Mozambique by focusing on the jobs, opportunities and services that people need to beat poverty.

Top priorities

Improving access to clean water and sanitation
Increasing the number of children completing basic education, especially girls
Saving more mothers from dying in childbirth
Making sure more children live beyond their fifth birthday
Increasing the number of doctors and nurses

We will spend an average of £83 million per year in Mozambique until 2015.

Projects

Find out more in Projects: Mozambique

How we have helped

River of hope: adapting to a changing climate in Mozambique

The Zambezi Floodplain Management programme, delivered by Save the Children and funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development (DFID), is helping farming communities in Mozambique adapt to the effects of climate change.

A town stops to vote in Mozambique

As the people of Namaacha get ready to vote, election observers gear up to keep watch during the busy day ahead

More case studies

Mozambique on DFID Bloggers

A silent cheeropens in a new window

posted 22 June 2011

The social media room at last week's GAVI conference was quietly buzzing. People's faces were lit by the blue light of their lap top screens and, in one corner, a steady stream of influential people commented and reported into the TV cameras...