Mozambique: Overseas Aid and Security

(asked on 12th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what (a) security and (b) Official Development assistance the UK provided to Mozambique in each of the last three years.


Answered by
James Duddridge Portrait
James Duddridge
This question was answered on 17th March 2021

(a) The Ministry of Defence, with other government departments, provides support to Mozambique under the UK-Mozambique Defence Memorandum of Understanding agreed in 2019. This includes defence cooperation and is intended to assist the Government of Mozambique in addressing terrorism and promoting respect for human rights. The UK also co-leads, with Ireland, the International Community Crisis Response Taskforce, endorsed by the Government of Mozambique, which provides an important platform for high-level political dialogue and coordination relating to the security situation in Cabo Delgado.

(b) Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Mozambique supports activities in a number of sectors including humanitarian, health, education, water and sanitation, better governance and economic development. Data for the last three years which is available is below. This information is taken from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's National Statistics publication 'Statistics on International Development'. The next report, published in Autumn 2021, will provide a full breakdown of the UK's ODA spend for 2020.

£ Thousands

2017

2018

2019

Total UK Bilateral ODA

57,526

70,895

103,583

Imputed UK share of Multilateral Net ODA

54,070

65,706

75,296

Total

111,596

136,600

178,880

Source: Statistics on International Development, 2019 - tinyurl.com/yh5vl9fz

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