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O Programa Cidadania e Participação (Citizen Engagement Programme - CEP) em Moçambique é um programa de empoderamento e responsabilização que visa melhorar a qualidade dos serviços de saúde e educação através do apoio aos cidadãos para os monitorarem. O programa ajuda os cidadãos a envolverem-se com os provedores de serviços para tratarem problemas identificados; visa também gerar evidência para a melhoria das políticas e programas aos níveis local e nacional. Para o CEP é fundamental...

The Citizen Engagement Program (CEP) in Mozambique is an empowerment and accountability program aiming to improve the quality of health and education services through supporting citizens to monitor them. The program supports citizens to engage with service providers to address identified problems; it also aims to generate evidence for policy and program improvement at the local and national levels. This case study is structured in three main sections. The first section provides a background...

O insucesso escolar constitui um dos grandes problemas do sistema educativo formal, em Moçambique. Existe por várias razões, tais como o abandono da escola antes da conclusão do ciclo, as reprovações anteriores que dão lugar a grandes desníveis entre a idade cronológica do aluno e o nível escolar em que se encontra, a falta de materiais pedagógicos, os métodos usados pelos professores. Os níveis de fracasso escolar podem ser totais (em todas as disciplinas) ou parciais (numa ou duas...

Abstract Recent evidence indicates that disrespectful/abusive/coercive service delivery by skilled providers in facilities, which results in actual or perceived poor quality of care, is directly and indirectly associated with adverse maternal and newborn outcomes. The present article reviews the evidence for disrespectful/abusive care during childbirth in facilities (DACF), describes examples of DACF, discusses organizations active in a rights-based respectful maternity care movement, and...

Este estudo procura reflectir as causalidades e os efeitos socioeconómicos dos movimentos migratórios no processo de desenvolvimento na região norte de Moçambique, especificamente na província de Nampula, onde a entrada de estrangeiros de forma regular ou irregular é cada vez mais acentuada. Procuramos igualmente captar as motivações subjacentes, os pontos de entrada, as formas de integração, bem como o papel das instituições do Estado na reprodução dos fluxos migratórios. Neste trabalho...

As eleições municipais de 2003 marcaram o início do exercício do poder local pela Renamo no município de Angoche. Quais são os factores explicativos desta situação eleitoral local? A partir de uma perspectiva sócio-histórica, este artigo procura compreender como é que a evolução política e administrativa destes territórios influenciou a lógica do poder local. São as relações estabelecidas entre as populações e o Estado e a forma como a municipalização foi desenhada e implementada desde 1994...

The Mapping Study of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Mozambique was carried out during the first half of 2015, within the context of preparation for the Roadmap of the European Union (EU), Member States and other partners for engagement with civil society. Data collection included document analysis, and interviews with CSOs, international partners and Mozambican government institutions at national, provincial, district and local level. In the first phase of the field work, nine...

The aim of this article is to extend the state of analysis on the impacts of gas development in Mozambique by evaluating the relationship between the gas sector, the Mozambican economy, and social change. As the resource curse framework is only limited to economic growth, this work utilizes two alternative frameworks—the Staples approach and the Linkages approach—that are melded into an institutional analysis, looking simultaneously at “benefits, costs, and uncertainties” or “blessings,...

This report looks at the companies already setting up agribusiness operations in the Nacala Corridor, an area that the government has prioritised for agribusiness development. These companies, typically structured through offshore tax havens and often connected to Mozambican political elites, have been grabbing lands and extracting wealth in ways reminiscent of the country's colonial days.

The Reality Checks are implemented 2011-2016 and each year field work is carried out in the Municipality of Cuamba, the District of Lago and the District of Majune in the Niassa Province. Each Reality Check focusses on a specific theme. This is the 4th Sub-Report from the District of Lago, focusing on the private sector/entrepreneurship. An Annual Report is produced each year to summarise the findings and conclusions from the three sub-reports.

In February 2008 and September 2010, the cities of Maputo and Matola were the scene of violent protests against the rise in the cost of living, undertaken by groups of ordinary citizens. Immediately afterwards, these protests were replicated in some other Mozambican cities, but on a much smaller scale, and they were quickly brought under control by the police. In November 2012, a new protest was set in motion, but immediate repressive action by the police (which in recent years has been...

Nos anos 1980, vários países da África subsaariana iniciaram um conjunto de reformas ligadas ao sector público visando, entre outros objectivos, fazer face à crise do Estado, que se manifestava essencialmente em duas dimensões, nomeadamente regulação política e provisão de serviços públicos. Desde então, assistiu-se a três gerações de reformas do sector público (Kiragu, 2002; Crook, 2010). A primeira geração vai dos meados dos anos 1980 aos meados dos anos 1990, com enfoque nos Planos de...

Despite Mozambique's great natural resource wealth and strong economic growth, rural poverty remains high countrywide. The challenge is thus finding ways to turn this wealth into development opportunities. For many rural people in central Mozambique, artisanal gold mining is the most direct source of income and this is most likely to remain so. Drawing on our personal experiences, we reflect on the future of artisanal gold mining in Mozambique. The government's strategy consists of promoting...

Following the food and energy price crises of the mid 2000s, sub-Saharan Africa has become one of the largest recipients for large-scale farmland investments. While much has been written on the phenomenon, scant reliable empirical evidence is available as to the precise geographic and sectoral patterns and underlying drivers. Employing strict data quality requirements, this paper addresses these knowledge gaps by analyzing 563 farmland projects that have been established between 2005 and...

This chapter outlines the socio-economic and health baseline of areas (both onshore and offshore) potentially affected by the Project. The chapter is structured into a number of sections, as follows: • Sections 9.2 and 9.3 provide a summary of the baseline and sources of information used to compile the baseline, respectively. • Section 9.4 defines the Project Area of Influence, providing both an overview of the geographic characteristics as well as the respective administrative divisions and...

O presente guião é um instrumento que tem em vista dotar as OSC e cidadãos de modo geral, de conhecimentos sobre o funcionamento dos Conselhos Consultivos Locais (CCLs) de maneira a facilitar a sua participação e a alargar as suas intervenções na área de monitoria e advocacia da governação a nível distrital. Estão apresentados neste guião, os elementos que permitem perceber a organização, a estrutura, funções, e responsabilidades dos Conselhos Consultivos Locais, como eles funcionam, as...

This working paper examines the limitations of international and national law to address displacement and dispossession from land grabs within the case study of Mozambique. The main question that I seek to answer is: What limits international and national law in addressing displacement and dispossession due to land grabs in Mozambique? I will argue that the limits of law to address displacement and dispossession are not due to a lack of institutionalising international good governance norms...

Em 2009, o Centro Terra Viva (CTV) publicou o Guião de Consultas Comunitárias, como parte do seu esforço em melhorar a aplicação da legislação sobre terras e outros recursos naturais. O guião resultou de várias pesquisas de campo realizadas pelo CTV e outras organizações que trabalham na área de Terras. No entanto, a aprovação do Decreto n° 43/2012 de 10 de Outubro, seguida do Diploma Ministerial n° 158/2011 de 15 de Junho, uma parte significativa do Guião ficou ultrapassada. Por outro...

This report provides a brief examination of how and where gender analysis is incorporated into Political Economy Analysis (PEA). An initial review of the literature indicates that gender is not systematically included in PEA. This was also conveyed by a number of experts consulted for this report, who stated that few if any PEAs to their knowledge had included a gender analysis, with the issue usually treated only in passing. The report nevertheless highlights the existing examples of...

This paper aims at giving a general overview on the geology of Mozambique, and its mineral and geological resources associated to the different geological units. The geology of Mozambique covers almost all periods of the Earth’s history. Tectonically speaking, Precambrian is found in three Gondwana blocks – E, W and S -, each one of them with its geostructural characteristics, and separated from each other by great structural features. For Phanerozoic, reference is made to the Karoo...