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The Alcançar Baseline Assessment of Facility and District Capacity was conducted to establish an evidence base against which to measure project performance and impact over the life of the project and to inform project priorities and planning. The assessment includes a census of health centers and hospitals in Nampula province - the population of facilities that the project is expected to influence. Trained data collection teams interviewed facility and district staff to collect current...

Since initial exploratory drilling in 2007 by U.S. operator Anadarko, Mozambique has uncovered vast natural gas volumes within its offshore basins, and now carries the potential to be the fourth largest natural gas exporter globally. With discoveries ranging from Anadarko’s initial 480 feet of gas found in Area 1 in 2010, to Eni’s discovery of 425 billion cubic meters one year later, the onus now lies on major operators including Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Eni and more to develop the...

Scholars and civil society organizations have over the last decade referred to large-scale carbon sequestration TPPs as "carbon colonialism" (Carmody and Taylor, 2016) as well as a "development by dispossession" dressed in new clothing behind words such as climate change mitigation and development (Kröger, 2012). Concerns have been raised that the trade-offs from the implementation of industrial tree plantations (ITPs) may result in conflicting effects on countries' overall development (The...

The region of modern-day Mozambique has always been strategic for global trade. Since at least the medieval period its coasts have been visited by traders from India, Somalia, Ethiopia, and beyond. Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrived in 1498, marking the beginning of nearly 500 years of Portuguese colonial rule of the territory. Mozambique achieved independence from Portugal in 1975, but subsequently experienced a series of civil wars from 1977 to 1992. Democratic elections in 1994...

In much of Eastern Africa, the last decade has seen a renewedinterest in spatial development plans that link mineralexploitation, transport infrastructure and agriculturalcommercialisation. While these development corridors haveyielded complex results–even in cases where significantinvestments are yet to happen–much of the existing analysiscontinues to focus on economic and implementation questions,where failures are attributed to inappropriate incentives or...

This article intends to reflect around the level of poverty and inequality existing among the various ethno-linguistic groups of the province, trying to gauge the extent to which they may be at the root of the current conflict. In this sense, 94 individuals were interviewed in the districts of Palma, Mocímboa da Praia, Macomia, Muidumbe and Montepuez (macuas, macondes, muânis and mácues), trying to understand what representations they build on the different ethno-linguistic groups in the...

The Action for Empowerment and Accountability Research Programme (A4EA) examines different forms of social and political action to understand how and under what conditions they contribute to real world change, including gains in empowerment for the most excluded and marginalised, and for increased accountability of authorities. A4EA work is highly relevant to FCDO’s expressed goals of developing research-led solutions to building open societies and supporting conflict resolution, including...

À semelhança das edições anteriores, o Anuário Estatístico 2019 contém informações que permitem traçar um perfil sintético da realidade sócio-económica de Moçambique em seus múltiplos domínios. O mesmo constitui parte da série de publicações que o Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE), na sua missão de proporcionar, à sociedade moçambicana, informação estatística que permita o conhecimento da realidade do País, disponibiliza aos utilizadores e ao público em geral, como um veículo para a...

Mozambique and France are discussing a military maritime cooperation agreement, a diplomatic source in the European country told Lusa in the context of possible support in the fight against terrorism in Cabo Delgado. "No operational military support has been provided to Cabo Delgado by the French

Key Messages: - Pharmaceutical logistics make up only 7% of total projected costs for the health sector through 2019; - The expansion and demand of the health sector in the forthcoming years will not be accompanied by the necessary increase in resources for the pharmaceutical logistics sector; - Increased nancing in the area of PL is necessary, preferably from internal sources, to allow the implementation of PELF recommendations; - It is estimated that 13% of the value of the approximately...

The main focus of the report is the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on democracy and freedom around the world. It looks at how the pandemic resulted in the withdrawal of civil liberties on a massive scale and fuelled an existing trend of intolerance and censorship of dissenting opinion (see page 14). The report also examines the state of US democracy after a tumultuous year dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement and a hotly contested presidential...

The August 2019 Maputo Accord on Peace and Reconciliation appears not to be standing on entirely solid ground. Not only has the decentralization agreement suffered from last minute ‘adulteration’, but also the DDR process has been lacking speed and rigour. The circumstances and outcomes of the October 2019 elections have cast doubt on the extent to which Renamo will abide to the August 2019 agreement. The party appears to be split on the matter of the – officially disowned armed Junta...

On 15 October, Mozambicans elected the president, members of the Assembly of the Republic, members of the 10 provincial assemblies, and 10 provincial governors. Although there was a considerable number of participants, including recently registered political parties, the electoral process was dominated by the three main parties: the ruling Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO), the main opposition Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO), and the Mozambican Democratic Movement (MDM)

This policy brief, apart from describing the dilemmas of the democratization process of health services it, aims to analyze its implications on the dynamics of social accountability in the health sector and, finally, to inform on possible ways for a more coherent democratization, considering the normative discourses

The government of Mozambique has a rapidly shrinking window within which to implement a more comprehensive and effective strategy to weaken the Ahlu Sunna wa Jama (ASWJ) insurgents in Cabo Delgado and prevent the group from becoming an entrenched, long-term security problem. This report projects that the security situation in Cabo Delgado will most likely deteriorate during the next 18 months if the ASWJ insurgency continues to recruit new fighters and maintains a high frequency of attacks,...

The inclusion of persons with disabilities is an essential element of a strong democracy and a just society. Persons with disabilities (PWDs) being included means that they have a full and equal opportunity to participate in society and in political decision-making processes, to develop their capacities, and to contribute to national progress Like everywhere, persons with disabilities in Mozambique face physical, social, economic and/or environmental barriers to participation. For example,...

Research has highlighted disparities in family planning outcomes by wealth and by region separately. This analysis examines regional disparities within specific poverty groups. Twelve USAID family planning priority countries with recent DHS or AIS surveys were selected for the analysis, including 11 DHS surveys (Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Malawi, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda Uganda, and Zambia) and one AIS survey (Mozambique). The measure of absolute...

An external evaluation of the project was conducted in April - May 2019. It looked into the strategy, performance and attainment of the general development goals. The results of the evaluation will be taken into account in the planning of a possible second phase of the project. According to the evaluation, the project is highly relevant both for the strategic partnership between Finland and Mozambique, as well as for the sustainability and inclusiveness of the economic growth arising from...

Since the start of the reform in the late 1990s, Indonesia has implemented an ambitious decentralization policy. One of its aims is to foster regional development from below by giving subnational governments a greater discretion in determining programmes that are more aspirational to the interests of the community and to local and regional development objectives. The decentralized government system has been implemented for almost two decades, yet limited studies have been conducted to...

Gender equality is enshrined in Mozambique’s Constitution and promoted through its participation in international conventions and treaties as well as its 2004 Family Code, which requires equality in property and family law, including sharing of assets within marriage (International Federation for Human Rights, 2007; UN Women, 2012). During the launch of a National Plan of Action on Women, Peace, and Security in June 2018, the Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Welfare reiterated the...