PROG 2017-2021_MOZAMBIQUE_OUTCOME 2_Lay people, Red Cross staff & volunteers have adequate, up-to-date and evidence-based knowledge, skills & attitudes to provide first aid to those in need by 2021, as such enhancing community level resilience and emergency care capacity.

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. First Aid is a priority activity for all Red Cross Societies worldwide, and especially relevant in Mozambique, given the volatile political and socio-economic situation, the disasters that frequently hit the country and the limited access to basic healthcare especially for the rural population. Moreover, First Aid Education is a very cost-effective development intervention, having a cost of 8 $ per disability-adjusted life year averted (DALY), making it one of cheapest ways to increase public health in developing countries. BRC-FL has extensive expertise in FA education, assuring that what is thought, is conform the latest scientific evidence. This highly increases the efficiency of our intervention, resulting in a total of 2.155 direct beneficiaries with a large spill-over effect to 32.480 indirect beneficiaries, making a total of 34.635 beneficiaries.