World Vision Calls on Parliament to Place Children at the Center of Mozambique’s Development Agenda

Mozambique’s newly sworn-in Parliament has pledged to work toward significantly advancing the country’s child rights agenda.  Responding to a call to the effect by World Vision, the Parliament’s Deputy Speaker, Helder Injojo, committed to working alongside the organization and other partners “for the greater benefit of vulnerable children, their families and communities”. 

Injojo was speaking at a ceremony during which World Vision and the Mozambican Parliament formalized a partnership spanning over a decade. Throughout the years, the two entities have collaboratively worked with one another in a journey marked by significant child rights accomplishments.

“We played a pivotal role in the civil society-led movement that led to the approval of the Law for the Prevention and Elimination of Child Marriage, and more recently, the Disability Act, “recalls Maria Carolina, World Vision’s Country Director in Mozambique.

In the past few years, Members of Parliament have also adopted World Vision’s premier social accountability model, Citizens Voice and Action, as a framework for regular dialogue with local communities and governments aimed at improving public service delivery. This is a best practice that both World Vision and the Parliament want to see replicated and further enhanced, and even expanded to other state and government institutions.

Parliament praises World Vision’s impact on health and education 

Mozambique’s Parliamentary sub-committee responsible for social affairs has commended World Vision’s interventions aimed at accelerating ongoing efforts to prevent Malaria, funded by the Global Fund. This program allocated 2.8 million families over 11.4 million treated mosquito nets in 2024 alone, to ensure that the community has access to at least one method of malaria prevention in the country.

World Vision’s School Feeding Program, supported by the United States Department of Agriculture, was also hailed, and in 2024 it expanded to Zambezia province, where it served the first meal out of 85 million meals served in the past to more than 190.000 children, contributing to school retention and reduction of malnutrition rates.

“For school success we can't limit ourselves to thinking that the children aren’t capable, food is very important, a hungry child or even a hungry adult won't be able to concentrate,” said Lucília Hama, after learning about the impact of the school feeding program implemented in the provinces of Nampula and Zambezia.