PROG 2017-2021_MOZAMBIQUE_OUTCOME 1_Sustained use of sufficient safe water & sanitation facilities, as well as sustained safe hygiene attitudes & practices by the target population by 2021.

Belgian Red Cross-Flanders (BRC-FL) worked in Mozambique between 2001 and 2014, mostly in the field of health and disaster response, and always with its preferential partner, the National Society, Mozambique Red Cross Society . Between 2017 and 2021, the renewed cooperation will focus on First Aid training and service delivery and water and sanitation. BRC-Fl focuses on these 2 areas of intervention in order to be able to deliver a tangible added value to the partnership, seen our extensive and evidence-based experience in those two areas of intervention. Access to sufficient and safe water and sanitation is an important contributor to overall health and poverty reduction. With this program, 7.000 persons in Vilanculos will benefit from access to safe drinking water (new and rehabilitated water points) and 5.000 persons from access to improved sanitation. Apart from access, behavior is key to good health outcomes and hygiene promotion is according to the World Bank one of the most cost-effective health interventions. Therefore, the program also focusses on hygiene behavior change. This is accomplished using scientific approaches to behavioral change which are positively influencing our impact: 150 volunteers of Mozambique Red Cross Society will play an important role in both transmitting the right messages, and assisting the beneficiaries to change their behavior for the better. In total, the program assists 7.000 direct beneficiaries and 14.000 indirect, making a total of 20.000 beneficiaries.