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Background: In the past decade, the negative impact of disrespectful maternity care on women’s utilisation and experiences of facility-based delivery has been well documented. Less is known about midwives’ perspectives on these labour ward dynamics. Yet efforts to provide care that satisfies women’s psycho-socio-cultural needs rest on midwives’ capacity and willingness to provide it. We performed a systematic review of the emerging literature documenting midwives’ perspectives to explore the...

Na sua última visita a Moçambique, em 2010, enquanto Presidente do Brasil, Lula da Silva destacava os laços fraternais entre o Brasil e Moçambique e o carácter contra-hegemónico do Sul para uma ordem internacional mais equânime, ao mesmo tempo que notava os avanços do investimento privado e os contributos do empresariado brasileiro. Agendas geopolíticas e mercantis fundiam-se em torno de narrativas de libertação, equidade e progresso social, desde o Brasil até à África. Este texto oferece um...

WHAT IS SOCIAL COHESION? Social cohesion is a concept with various interpretations.2 Some definitions emphasize social harmony and inclusion, human solidarity in diversity, and the inclusive wellbeing of a community or society. Others focus on the social fabric: the abundance of connections and associations in a society, and the presence of linkages and counterbalances that shape the relationship between citizen and the state. CRS views social cohesion as the strength, quality and diversity...

CONTEXT: Research on institutional child delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa typically focuses on availability and accessibility of health facilities. Cultural factors, including religion, that may facilitate or hinder the use of such services have not been well examined and remain poorly understood. METHODS: The relationship between religious affiliation and delivery in a health facility was explored using data from a household survey of 1,297 women aged 18-50 and a census of 825 religious...

PARTE I – POLÍTICA O dever de pesquisar na periferia do mundo / Michel Cahen Multipartidarismo, geografia do voto e descentralização em Moçambique / Luís de Brito Desafios da descentralização fiscal em Moçambique: o caso dos municípios / Celeste Banze “Grão a grão enche a galinha o papo?” Evidências sobre o Imposto Pessoal Autárquico em 13 cidades moçambicanas / Eduardo Nguenha Identidades étnicas e governação municipal: algumas notas para a reflexão a partir do caso da Beira / Lúcio...

Outcome Harvesting is a M&E methodology used to identify, describe, verify and analyses the changes brought about by a campaign, support or advocacy initiative (see Better Evaluation or Winter School 2019 presentation by Outcome Mapping Learning Community). In Outcome Harvesting, one collects evidence of change (‘outcomes’ – e.g. changed policy, amended or stopped legislation processes, a new coalition formed, shifted voting behaviour) and then works backwards to assess contribution to that...

On October 5, 2017, a group of armed men attacked three police stations in Moçimboa da Praia, starting nearly two years of violence and insecurity that still show no sign of ending. Between the first October incident and August 27, 2019, extremists conducted 173 attacks—79 percent of which were committed against civilians—resulting in over 350 deaths, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Database (ACLED).1 There is no consensus on the name or construct of the group committing...

This is the ninth report reconciling payments made by companies operating in the extractive industry and receipts from the State. 97% of tax revenues from the extractive industry were reconciled. The differences between the payments by the companies and the receipts from the State correspond to 0,17% of the amounts confirmed by the State in 2019

Evidence suggests that many women experience mistreatment during childbirth in health facilities across the world, but the magnitude of the problem is unknown. The occurrence of disrespect and abuse (D&A) in maternity care services affects the overall quality of care and may undermine women’s trust in the health system. Studies about the occurrence of disrespect and abuse in Mozambican health facilities are scarce. The aim of this study was to explore the experience of women giving birth in...

We investigate the gender employment gap in the expanding non-subsistence sector of the economy in Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has widened over time and we identify two structural factors strongly associated with it. One factor is the still relatively lower level of female human capital, with less attained education, as well as literacy and Portuguese proficiency rates. The lower conditional...

À semelhança das edições anteriores, o Anuário Estatístico 2018 contém informações que permitem traçar um perfil sintético da realidade sócio-económica de Moçambique em seus múltiplos domínios.

O Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) apresenta nesta publicação os resultados definitivos do IV Recenseamento Geral da População e Habitação de 2017 (Censo 2017) referentes a Moçambique. Esta publicação encontra-se estruturada em duas partes: • A primeira inclui principais conceitos e definições necessári os para a interpretação dos resultados; • A segunda é composta por quadros que foram definidos como prioritários para as publicações em suporte de papel.

"As regras do jogo: uma introdução às normas internacionais do trabalho" apresenta de maneira sucinta a política normativa da OIT, com objetivo de facilitar a sua compreensão e apropriação pelos constituintes tradicionais da OIT e os do sistema das Nações Unidas, bem como os não especialistas e o público em geral.

The Rules of the Game: An introduction to the standards-related work of the ILO provides a brief presentation of the ILO’s standards policy with a view to facilitating understanding and ownership by the ILO’s traditional constituents, as well as the United Nations system, non-specialists and the broader public. In its first section, the publication recalls the underlying reasons for and utility of the ILO’s standards-related action at both the national level and in the current context of...

Background: Countries must be able to describe and monitor their populations health and well-being needs in an attempt to understand and address them. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have re-emphasized the need to invest in comprehensive health information systems to monitor progress towards health equity; however, knowledge on the capacity of health information systems to be able do this, particularly in low-income countries, remains very limited. As a case study, we aimed to...

Background The Maternal Mortality Ratio in Mozambique has stagnated at 405 deaths per 100,000 live births with virtually no progress over the last 15 years. Low Institutional Birth Rates (IBRs) levelling around 50% in many rural areas constitute one of the contributing reasons. Demand-side financing has successfully increased usage of maternal health services in other countries, but little information exists on in-kind incentives in rural Africa. The objective was to test the impact on...

Key Messages: - Health is a human right and is constitutionally protected in Mozambique; - The health sector is considered a priority sector by the Government of Mozambique; - The health sector is amongst the least funded by the State Budget in the past four years, (with less than 8% on average), against the 15% assumed in Abuja; - For the year 2014, of the 762.8 million USD allocated to the health sector, 44% came from external sources (REO MOH, 2014). The combined PROSAUDE resources,...

Background: Despite substantial investment in women’s health over the past two decades, and enthusiastic government support for MDG 5 and SDG 3, health indicators for women in Mozambique remain among the lowest in the world. Maternal mortality stayed constant from 2003 to 2011, with an MMR of 408; the estimated HIV prevalence for women of 15–24 years is over twice that for men; and only 12.1% of women are estimated to be using modern contraception. This study explores the perspectives of...

A economia de Moçambique encontra-se num ponto de viragem, e os esforços para abordar as vulnerabilidades em matéria de governação e corrupção podem ter um impacto positivo duradouro. Já tomámos medidas para abordar as vulnerabilidades em matéria de governação e corrupção. Contudo, reconhecemos que subsistem falhas em diversas áreas relevantes da economia. A fim de abordar algumas das debilidades restantes, temos reformas de governação em curso e em perspectiva em várias áreas, muitas...

As uniões prematuras constituem um dos principais problemas sociais na África Austral que, pelas suas consequências negativas em cadeia: gravidez precoce,desnutrição crónica,fístula obstétrica,abandono escolar,se tornam um problema igualmente económico, uma barreira ao desenvolvimento socioeconómico. No caso de Moçambique, o problema afecta cerca de metade das raparigas com menos de 18 anos, o que faz do país um dos cinco mais afectados a nível da Comunidade dos Países da África Austral...