Due to its morphology and location, Mozambique is a coastal country that is highly vulnerable to extreme climate events. Cyclones are the most frequent of them, hitting severely the settlements along the coast and once inland, provoking prolonged and heavy rainfalls, which generate extensive floods. On March 14th, 2019, Cyclone Idai made landfall in the urban area of Beira and Dondo (approx. 700,000 people), causing major damages and destruction, and then moving westwards through Sofala and Manica Provinces along the Beira corridor, until reaching Zimbabwe where it died off. This cyclone and the subsequent large floods affected approximately 3 million people in the South-Eastern Africa, half of which in Mozambique, but also in Zimbabwe and Malawi. It claimed around 1,000 lives, injured thousands of people, displaced 150,000 people, damaged or destroyed over 240,000 houses, in addition to causing heavy infrastructure destruction (roads, bridges, schools, health centres, telecommunication, electricity networks, etc.), agricultural losses (ahead of the harvesting season, leading to food insecurity) and spreading of diseases. In the same year, on April 25th tropical Cyclone Kenneth made landfall in northern Mozambique, with similar type of consequences as Idai, although in lesser dimensions. The United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) has been working with the Government of Mozambique for almost 20 years providing technical assistance and on-site support for climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and resilience building. Following the recent disasters, UN-Habitat Country Team in Mozambique, supported by the Regional Office for Africa (ROAF) and several branches at headquarter level immediately activated its experts and defined a Recovery Strategy, based on extensive consultations, as well as field visits to the affected areas and preliminary assessments.