Supporting urban recovery after Cyclone Idai Berai, Mozambique

As the focus of the response to Cyclone Idai turns from emergency response to recovery, shelter actors face the all too familiar challenge of defining and implementing recovery programmes that achieve maximum impact with increasingly scarce resources. This is particularly difficult in urban areas that present unique challenges in terms of diversity, complexity and scale with a range of different formal and informal actors and processes. These complexities point to the need for highly flexible responses.

The paper presents the findings from a real time research project which sought to understand the impact of Cyclone Idai on urban households and communities as well as the options for shelter actors seeking to support their recovery. The aim was to provide recommendations to inform the Shelter Cluster response strategy, CARE Mozambique and the COSACA consortium’s shelter response in Beira.