Flood Resilience in Mozambique: Resource Compilation
August 20, 2024
With the aim of strengthening community resilience and reducing the impact of floods, the Mozambique Red Cross, together with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), formed part of the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance.
Final report
Community Engagement for Flood Resilience in Mozambique
Impact brief
Flood Resilience Program in Mozambique
Between 2021 and 2024, the Mozambique Red Cross championed 2 fundamental pillars of change that led to significant impact at both the local and national level.
- Families and communities are more aware of risk and have the capacity to prepare and respond to floods.
- Community early warning infrastructure is functioning, and environmental management is prioritised for greater flood resilience.
By leveraging the Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) framework, the program engaged deeply with local populations to build resilience and integrated their insights and experiences into both local actions and national strategies.
See below a selection of resources to learn more about the program activities and impact.
- Key messages from the FRMC endline results in Beira and Buzi (Portuguese).
Families and communities are more aware of risk and have the capacity to prepare and respond to floods.
- Blog: First Aid for flood resilience (English).
- Radio spots: key messages for flood preparedness (Portuguese).
Community early warning infrastructure is functioning, and environmental management is prioritised for greater flood resilience.
- Blog: Canal cleaning (English - link pending).
- Full report: When the unprecedented becomes precedented: Learning from Cyclones Idai and Kenneth. (English, Portuguese).
- Executive summary: Learning from 2019 Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth: Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. (English).
- Brief: Learning from Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth to Inform Long-term Disaster Risk Reduction Programming in Mozambique (English).
- Brief: Learning from Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth to Strengthen Early Warning Systems in Mozambique. (English).
- Brief: Bridging the divide: Lessons from disaster risk reduction, development and humanitarian approaches to Cyclones Idai and Kenneth (English).
- Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance Webinar: The power of post event reviews (English).
- Video: Mozambique: Red Cross drone footage shows extent of devastation.
- Blog: Remembering the forgotton disaster: one year after Cyclones Idai and Kenneth (English).
The Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance is a multi-sectoral partnership which brings together community programmes, new research, shared knowledge and evidence-based influencing to build community flood resilience in developed and developing countries. We help people measure their resilience to floods and identify appropriate solutions before disaster strikes. Our vision is that floods should have no negative impact on people’s ability to thrive. To achieve this, we are working to increase funding for flood resilience; strengthen global, national and subnational policies; and improve flood resilience practice.