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The papers and discussions included in this collection are the product of a workshop, “Discovering Normality in Health and the Reproductive Body,” held in March, 2001 at Northwestern University's Program of African Studies. The idea for the workshop stemmed from a history of collaborations among Caroline Bledsoe, Jane Guyer, and Kuate Defo Barthélemy on topics of fertility, health, and research methodology. The workshop itself grew out of a commitment to continue that conversation and to...

The health sector in Mozambique has made significant progress in terms of increasing coverage of services. However, health remains a major concern in the area of poverty reduction. The study describes the health status of the population, especially of the poor, and how the sector responds to the needs. Huge inequalities continue to exist with regards to resource allocation, deployment of staff and availability of services among various geographic areas, between the urban and rural...

This article reconstructs key aspects of the evolving relationship between state institutions and former regulos (Portuguese‐appointed chiefs), in Nampula Province, Mozambique during the first 12 years of independence. In doing so, it simultaneously draws on and critiques two opposing interpretations of revolution and counterrevolution which have dominated scholarly production on post‐independence Mozambique and have polarized Mozambican studies in recent years. Against both sets of...

This article presents results from a study on the use and appropriation of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Mozambique with a focus on the health sector. The three provinces of Gaza, Inhambane and Niassa were surveyed and two questionnaires addressing 1) computer users and their ability to manage ICT, and 2) health workers and their handling of health information, were used. Based on this study appropriate strategies for developing an ICT-infrastructure with the needs of...

In mid-1998, a World Bank study grimly noted that "Indonesia is in deep economic crisis. A country that achieved decades of rapid growth, stability, and poverty reduction is now near economic collapse . . . no country in recent history, let alone one the size of Indonesia, has ever suffered such a dramatic reversal of fortune." There is bitter irony in Indonesia's fall from grace. Long hailed as a model of successful economic development, it was widely predicted to escape the fate of...

Despite significant problems with urban criminal gangs and highway robbers, Mozambique is a country at peace since 4 October, 1992. Under the auspices of the Italian religious congregation of Santo Egidio,4 Joaquim Alberto Chissano, president of the Republic and of the Frente de libertagao de Mozambique (FRELIMO), once the 'Marxist-Leninist' single-party of the country, and Afonso Dhlakama, president of the Resistencia national de Mogambique (RENAMO), the former guerrilla group and longtime...

A ajuda internacional ao desenvolvimento ou da solidariedade social global desempenha funções contraditórias no sistema mundial: por um lado, cria alternativas de desenvolvimento, ilumuna as contradições e dificuldades de acesso igual aos recursos. Por outro, reproduz o actual sistema mundial com as desigualdades e relações diferentes entre os diversos estados e povos. Todavia existe um vasto terreno para melhorar as práticas actuais, encontrar e sugerir panoramas alternativos de...

Even among a successful group of small business owners, women generate lower sales volumes and derive less income than their male counterparts. Alternative explanations of women's relative disadvantage are evaluated systematically. The characteristics of the owner and the small business that differ between genders explain the discrepancy in financial success, with the smaller size of women's businesses emerging as the major explanatory factor. Women's lack of experience and their...

The liberation of women is a fundamental necessity for the revolution, a guarantee of its continuity and a condition for its success (Machel, 1973). In his opening address to the first conference of the Mozambique Women's Organisation (OMM) in 1973, Samora Machel, President of Frelimo, affirmed that women's emancipation was an integral aspect of revolutionary struggle. In 1973 Frelimo was still a liberation front engaged in armed struggle against colonial rule. The northern part of...

In 1985 Mozambique commemorated its tenth year of independence against a background of a continuing need to defend the country, not only against the actions of the externally-backed Mozambique National Resistance (MNR), but also against drought, acute food shortages and a world economic recession. These external factors have significant implications for the implementation of Mozambique's health policy. The MNR has chosen as deliberate targets for attack: health posts, health centres, rural...

Conclusion Of course, the political disgrace of Joana Simiao does not by itself solve the problem of Makua-Lomwe separatism, any more than the collapse of the Movement for a Free Mozambique has solved the larger problems of national reconstruction in Mozambique. But by now it should be clear to all that the only political movement qualified to achieve that goal is FRELIMO, who demonstrably are working for the interests of all Mozambicans and who enjoy the support of Mozambicans of all...

English Situation Report on Mozambique about Camp Coordination and Camp Management, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 19 Apr 2021 by IOM

The mining sector in Mozambique is in the midst of transformation, as it realigns with the clean energy transition.

Provides an overview of the COVID-19 situation in Mozambique, details response strategy, coordination, capacity, and constraints. Then goes on to review sectoral impacts, including in internally displaced peoples, education, food security & livelihood, health, nutrition, protection, WASH, and shelter.

This paper analyses inclusive land governance in Mozambique. It focuses on the country’s legal framework and the DUAT, the right to use and benefit from the land.

MSF is working in Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique, where a little-known conflict and very few organisations working on the ground results in poor access to healthcare for people.

The Area 1 Mozambique LNG project comprises the offshore Golfinho-Atum gas field development and a 12.88Mtpa onshore LNG facility in Mozambique.

English Situation Report on Mozambique about Camp Coordination and Camp Management, Health, Epidemic, Flood and more; published on 12 Feb 2021 by IOM

Processos orçamentais transparentes são fundamentais nas sociedades democráticas e os cidadãos têm o direito de saber onde e como os seus recursos estão a ser investidos. Em Moçambique, onde cerca de metade do orçamento é financiado pela ajuda externa, a transparência da ajuda torna-se um factor preponderante no apoio a este processo democrático. Este breve estudo analisa alguns dos constrangimentos enfrentados pelo governo (na preparação e execução do orçamento), pelo Parlamento...