PARTNERSHIP IN ACTION – UNDP AND UNHCR COOPERATION ON FORCED DISPLACEMENT AND STATELESSNESS MOZAMBIQUE In Mozambique, UNDP and UNHCR are collaborating across data and analysis, policy and strategy and programme response. The collaboration aims to ensure that the needs of forcibly displaced populations and host communities are recognised and included in provincial and national planning and budgeting. For example, with UNDP’s assistance, UNHCR supported a national ‘Leaving No One Behind’ analysis led by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the Ministry of State Administration and Public Function. In Nampula province, UNDP and UNHCR supported efforts to revise the ten-year provincial development strategy. The collaboration has supported a transition from development and humanitarian responses delivered separately to one where HDP nexus coordination is central. In 2022-23, the collaboration was nontransactional, rather than based on financial contributions from each organisation. However, moves towards formalising the collaboration are being made. References • • UNHCR, ‘Mozambique: A country where humanitarian and development partners work together towards sustainable solutions to forced displacement,’ blogpost, October 2023 UNDP Mozambique, ‘Stabilization Programme: Report Quarter 2 2023, Cabo Delgado,’ August 2023 © UNHCR/Hélène Caux 2024 In Cabo Delgado province, the epicentre of the conflict in 2017, UNHCR and UNDP collaborated on the revision of a development strategy, including the participation of displaced people and host communities. UNDP is collaborating closely with UNHCR in implementing a two-year stabilisation programme in the province. UNDP has supported cash-for-work opportunities in districts where IDPs return and promotes peacebuilding. It is envisioned that the collaboration within the stabilisation programme will extend to other areas, such as rule of law and preparedness and response to extreme weather events, such as the cyclones and flooding that Mozambique is vulnerable to. The agencies have also rolled out the joint appraisal tool to assess and address the level of inclusion of forcibly displaced and stateless persons in Mozambique’s overall efforts to achieve the SDGs. U N H C R a n d U N D P | PA R T N E R S H I P I N A C T I O N – U N D P A N D U N H C R C O O P E R AT I O N O N F O R C E D D I S P L A C E M E N T A N D S TAT E L E S S N E S S 17