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Coastal livelihood interventions can help communities by providing additional incomes, while protecting and maintaining resources and the environment. The identification and promotion of resilient and diversified livelihood opportunities are crucial to enhance communities’ adaptive capacity to respond to the multiple stresses and shocks in a changing coastal environment. Coastal livelihood opportunities are especially important in their support for biodiversity conservation in and around...

Main plan objectives include legislation re women, peace, security; integrating gender perspectives in all actions re: conflict prevention/management; guarantee participation of women in decision making, structures in peace and security processes; promoting mechanisms to secure increased recruitment, retention, promotion of women in defense, security, justice sectors; reinforce fights against all forms of violence against women/girls in armed and non-armed conflict; expanding efforts for...

Contract farming is a sales arrangement between a farmer and a firm, agreed before production begins, which provides the farmer with resources or services. Many governments and donors promote contract farming as part of agricultural development policies. However, there is serious concern whether smaller farmers can benefit from these arrangements. This paper presents the results of a systematic review that analysed the evidence in the literature on income effects for smallholders. The review...

In northern Mozambique, villagers were promised jobs to replace land taken for forestry. Five years later, they’re still waiting, discovers Nils Adler.

This article aims to understand the inversion of roles between the state and citizens, by exploring its historical roots and current implications for processes of social accountability in Mozambique, particularly in the health sector. This is a practice-based reflection grounded in the evidence collected through the implementation of Community Scorecards in the health sector in 13 districts of Mozambique. The evidence has revealed a transfer of responsibilities from local governance...

Final JICA report on Nacala Corridor Development Project, whose objectives include: to clarify organizations for promoting and coordinating the implementation of development strategies for the Nacala Corridor Region in accordance with PEDEC-Nacala and to prepare for the implementation of high priority projects in accordance with PEDEC-Nacala. The study project commenced in April 2012 and the final study report was produced in April 2015.

This essay seeks to explain, in a historical perspective, recent violent attacks on local institutions and representatives of the Mozambican state. Case studies are taken from three Mozambican Provinces, to which historical cases are added showing similar patterns and targets of armed attacks. Based on desk research , interviews and the review of anthropological and political economy literature, the main causes of local conflicts – all of which with their specific contexts and narratives –...

Free Trade Area (FTA) between ASEAN and Japan, which is called ASEAN-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership (AJCEP), has been established since 2002 as goods and services flow gateway. AJCEP plays an important role to bring the development, economic security, and economic power. It can also boost the economic growth among member of ASEAN-Japan. The objectives of this research were to analyze the factors that can influence the ASEAN-Japan countries import with non-member, to analyze the...

In Cabo Delgado - Mozambique, we are giving support to the Provincial Health Directorate (DPS-CD) in developing an essential tool for the promotion of health in the Province: The Action Plan for Health Promotion.

Research Findings - It is unlikely that the extractives sector can any time soon be used to finance visionary transformation strategies aimed at achieving economic diversification. Due to the country’s fiscal situation and delays in developing the offshore natural gas sector, it seems that extractives will not provide additional revenues for at least another decade, if not longer. If the fiscal crisis results in the further deterioration of the provision of public goods and services, the...

O Inquérito de Indicadores de Imunização, Malária e HIV/SIDA (IMASIDA 2015) em Moçambique foi realizado no âmbito de The DHS Program e vem no seguimento de quatro inquéritos anteriores, com o objectivo de determinar indicadores de saúde da mulher e da criança no país, tais como a fecundidade; gravidez e maternidade na adolescência; preferências de fecundidade; planeamento familiar; consultas pré-natais; assistência ao parto; vacinação de crianças; infecções respiratórias agudas; diarreia e...

This case study is one of a series commissioned to support the Stabilisation Unit’s (SU) development of an evidence base relating to elite bargains and political deals. The project explores how national and international interventions have and have not been effective in fostering and sustaining political deals and elite bargains; and whether or not these political deals and elite bargains have helped reduce violence, increased local, regional and national stability and contributed to the...

Mozambique has experienced strong and sustained economic growth in the last two decades. Growth of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded at an annual average rate of 7.2 percent between 2000 and 2016, making it one of the fastest-growing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The economic expansion has boosted incomes and living standards. GDP per capita, for instance, grew annually on average by 4 percent over the same period, climbing from 561 US dollars to 1,128 US dollars (2011 PPP)....

Mozambique has experienced strong and sustained economic growth in the last two decades. Growth of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded at an annual average rate of 7.2 percent between 2000 and 2016, making it one of the fastest-growing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The economic expansion has boosted incomes and living standards. GDP per capita, for instance, grew annually on average by 4 percent over the same period, climbing from 561 US dollars to 1,128 US dollars (2011 PPP)....

Over the last decade, Mozambique has been one of the fastest-growing African economies, enjoying average economic growth of about 8% between 2004 and 2015. It received strong support from the international community during the period (for example, in 2014 it received US$2 billion in official development assistance). In parallel, the country has embarked on major reforms — especially fiscal reforms and tax administration — and has opened up to foreign investment, particularly for the exploitation of its natural resources.

O artigo argumenta que o tipo de emprego que é gerado nas agro-indústrias florestais em Niassa reflecte o modo de organização produtivo prevalecente, no qual a base de rentabilidade das empresas está assente no pagamento de salários baixos e em condições sociais de trabalho precárias, sendo os trabalhadores responsáveis pela sua própria reprodução social. A reprodução social da força de trabalho, dadas as estruturas produtivas e de acumulação prevalecentes, é garantida pela interdependência...

This report examines Haiyu’s conduct including what the company did or failed to do in acquiring the right to land for use of mining activity in Nagonha, what it did or failed to do in its operations in Nagonha, and what it did or failed to do in response to the villagers’ demand for compensation and resettlement following the flood. The report looks specifically at the breach of the right to adequate housing and decent living standards ensuing from Haiyu’s destruction of the wetland, and...

The MUVA Urban Youth Survey was conducted as part of the research activities for MUVA, a five-year DFID-funded female economic empowerment programme in urban Mozambique. MUVA works toward testing and finding solutions to help women and girls access opportunities to decent work by addressing the constraints they face. The objective of the survey is to obtain a statistical profile of the youth living in the MUVA target areas in Maputo and Beira to help inform policies about female economic...

Mozambique has four main social protection responses in place, including a cash transfer programme (the Basic Social Subsidy Programme—PSSB), a food voucher and in-kind transfer programme (Direct Social Action Programme—PASD), a public works programme (Productive Social Action Programme—PASP), and a set of institutional care services for vulnerable adults, elderly people and children without a home (Social Assistance Services—PAUS). We open this brief with an analysis of relevant social...

This report presents the findings of the second round of the Service Delivery Indicators Survey (SDI) in Mozambique. The SDI analyses the performance of the education sector by assessing the quality of service delivery at the school level. SDI has been implemented in nine countries in Africa, including Mozambique in 2014.5 The study includes a set of indicators that measures teachers and principals’ ability and effort, as well as the availability of key inputs and resources that contribute...