Mozambique: Scaling-up FortifyMIS Across Seven Provinces

In 2020, FFI and partners rolled out FortifyMIS, an online management information system with the power to improve fortification monitoring across seven provinces in Mozambique.

The rollout, which was based on the success of a 2019 FFI and Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) pilot in Maputo province, included training for 88 individuals: private sector millers, border inspectors, and production inspectors. Though the timing for scale-up coincided with the outbreak of the pandemic, the Government of Mozambique and FFI’s on-the-ground partners were committed—and ready—to ensure FortifyMIS could be used across the country, no matter what.

FortifyMIS provides decision makers with timely information to improve a national fortification program and, consequently, the nutrition of the people who the fortification program reaches. Developed by Project Healthy Children (PHC) and GAIN, FortifyMIS is used on computers, tablets, and handheld mobile devices. It allows users to automatically track fortified food quality and safety data through customizable digital forms, real-time dashboards, and tailored data-reporting methods.

In addition to Monitoring Information System support, FFI will continue to provide general technical assistance to the government throughout 2021 in order to improve their monitoring protocol activities.