For education, there is a need to develop a tool for monitoring teachers’ performance and attendance, as well as students’ remote access to education services. Within the 2021 resources allocated for education, operation plans to develop and strengthen its performance monitoring capacity in coordination and collaboration with the service providers and the implementing partner. This can be done through the introduction of attendance sheets to enable children to continue learning, in an event of any lockdown.
Due to limited staffing capacity and COVID-19 restrictions pursuant to preventive measures instituted by the government and WHO in 2020, the need to carry out persons with special needs monitoring activities during 2020 could not be met and UNHCR intends to strengthen the team and staff capacities to improve monitoring systems in general and especially remotely to ensure persons with special needs are attended to and their situation are regularly monitored. In addition, the needs of persons with special needs in Maratane refugee settlement should be updated on the database (ProGres Version 4) by UNHCR and its implementing partner.
In relation to naturalization, local integration through naturalization remains a challenge since the Government has not yet issued any decision on this matter. Due to the low number of applications and lack of awareness-raising activities organized in 2020, limited number of applications were facilitated by CEMIRDE, UNHCR’s partner. COVID-19 has also negatively impacted the rollout of many protection and outreach activities, including protection counselling, which was suspended in 2020, and training on legal protection targeting larger numbers of people of concern, both in Maratane refugee settlement and in Nampula. Due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions in 2020 and the need to update the Standard Operating Procedures and obtain government endorsement, registration and biometric verification was suspended in three provinces, i.e., Zambezia, Manica and Sofala.
Additional gender-based violence prevention activities need to be conducted in Maratane refugee settlement, in particular the creation of peer groups, enhancement of lighting in the settlement, capacity-building of health and protection staff on case management and communication skills/awareness programmes through community FM radio stations.