provided towards data assessment and analysis to define unmet gaps for the framing of a recovery strategy and design programmes and activities that will enhance and strengthen the resilience of affected communities. Support should also be provided to: • Strengthen Government and community capacities on risk reduction, including recovery processes; • Strengthening early warning weather systems; • Advocate for a mechanism of early warning information dissemination to promote early action; • Explore and strengthen community initiatives for early warning and early action. Financial Strategy Options The Government will liaise with development partners to seek options to fund the current drought response through re-programing of ongoing development projects in the country as well as exploring the crisis response windows mechanisms that some partners such as World Bank and the African Development Bank have announced. The Government is also accelerating the implementation of social protection programmes for 2016 that will contribute to augmenting some of the responses. Response to Date With the declaration of a Red Alert, resources are being mobilised by both Government and cooperating partners to meet the needs of those affected by the severe drought. The Government and partners have so far provided about 4.8 tonnes of maize and bean seeds through agricultural inputs fairs to about 140,000 farmers. Approximately 315,000 people have so far been assisted with food by Government and partners as at March 2016. An emergency school feeding programme for about 100,000 students in Gaza and Inhambane provinces is also being implemented. For water, Government and WASH humanitarian partners are focusing on increasing access to safe drinking water for drought-impacted populations. Regular WASH programmes, such as the drilling of boreholes and the rehabilitation and upgrading of existing community water points, supported by both Government and WASH partners, are being refocused and additional funds are being mobilized. 54 To date, about $2,687,280 has been mobilized. For nutrition-related responses, Government and partners are supporting national and provincial authorities of the Ministry of Health with scaling-up detection, referral and treatment of children with acute malnutrition. Coordination of responses to the drought is being led by the Government through the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC).