MERCIM - Melhorando a Resiliência Climática em Mozambique +

About this project

Mozambique is a petri dish of climate change. It is a large, growing, resource- and biodiversity-rich country where magnitude and impact of climate shocks have become so enormous over last few decades to make any further hesitations or delay of decisive interventions untenable. The increasingly frequent and devastating cyclones, the longer and more extensive droughts, recurrent floods and erratic rain patterns are marring Mozambique¿s development potential and raise every year the obstacle that most of the population - especially vulnerable groups - have to overcome in their strive out of poverty. As the first of a multi-annual set of interventions intended to contribute to tackle these challenges, gearing the new cycle of EU support towards Green Deal principles and commitments, it will deliver on the EU¿s commitment to step up international action for climate resilience as laid down in the EU Adaptation Strategy adopted in February 2021. This Action aims at addressing selected bottlenecks hampering Mozambique¿s capacity to adapt efficiently to climate change, while supporting the expansion of concrete adaptation interventions on the ground. MERCIM + is a climate change adaptation specific programme essentially targeted towards increasing adaptive capacity and resilience of the population, in line with the national commitments stated in the updated NDC. First, on the institutional front, capacities would receive a boost on two main strategic functions: strengthening inter-m…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 1No Poverty
• 2Zero Hunger
• 5Gender Equality
• 13Climate Action
• 14Life Below Water
• 15Life on Land
• 16Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Published by

European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships · Other public sector

Countries

Mozambique

Sectors

Disaster Risk Reduction

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Also contributesBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focusDesertification · Also contributesDisaster risk reduction · Main focus

Places

MZ - Mozambique

Published by European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 29 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2022-ACT-60962.

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