Mozambique 2025-2027 Strategy

Save the Children’s Mozambique Country Strategy Plan (CSP) 2025-2027 aims to achieve transformative change for children through a rights-based and systems-strengthening approach. Rooted in the global Save the Children 2030 ambition, the strategy prioritizes child survival, quality education, and protection from violence, ensuring that no child is left behind despite the challenges posed by climate change, conflict, and economic instability.

Mozambique remains one of the world’s poorest countries, with widening inequality and significant challenges affecting children’s well-being. Despite improvements in health, education, and access to essential services, over half of the country’s children continue to face deprivations in fundamental rights. The CSP 2025-2027 seeks to address these gaps by focusing on five strategic goals:

1. Healthy start in life – Strengthening maternal, neonatal, and child health services, combating malnutrition, and expanding mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS).
2. Access to safe, quality, and inclusive education – Improving learning outcomes, ensuring school safety, and expanding education in emergencies.
3. Child protection and prevention of violence – Strengthening child protection systems, combating child marriage, and promoting psychosocial support services.
4. Child rights governance and participation – Enhancing civil society and children’s role in advocacy, policy engagement, and social accountability.
5. Climate resilience and social protection – Supporting vulnerable communities with climate-adaptive livelihoods and integrating anticipatory action and cash-plus programming.

The three-year strategy underscores localization, shifting power to children, communities, and local actors, while strengthening partnerships with government, civil society, and the private sector. Through an integrated, data-driven, and gender-transformative approach, Save the Children aims to scale impactful interventions, promote inclusive governance, and advocate for stronger policies to protect children’s rights.

By leveraging innovation, digital solutions, and anticipatory action, this strategy aspires to achieve sustainable change at scale, ensuring that Mozambique’s most marginalized children can survive, learn, and thrive in a safer, more equitable society.