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Countries at the Crossroads is an annual survey of government performance in 30 key countries worldwide that are at a critical crossroads in determining their political future. Crossroads provides a unique comparative tool for assessing government performance in the areas of accountability and public voice, civil liberties, rule of law, and anticorruption and transparency. The countries evaluated in Crossroads represent a range of governments: traditional or constitutional monarchies,...

Mozambique has considerable quantity of natural resources, of which the major part is yet to be explored. The Government of Mozambique is determined to extract and export its natural resource potential as soon as possible, supposing that this will positively contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction. However, any resources rich countries are among the poorest nations in the world, in spite of decennia-long exploration of their natural wealth. This so colled 'paradox of plenty' or...

The aim of this field study was to analyze, by taking into consideration the small farmers’ perspective, the possibilities and obstacles for an implementation of a Green Revolution in southern Niassa, Northern Mozambique. The authors also ask: in what sense are the findings in Asia, presented by Djurfeldt, relevant for thesituation in southern Niassa?

There are a number of compelling reasons to focus on the ways in which the processes and relations of adverse incorporation and social exclusion (AISE) underpin chronic poverty. In particular, AISE research draws attention to the causal processes that lead poverty to persist, and to the politics and political economy of these processes and associated relationships over time. Specific dimensions of AISE are explored in relation to chronic poverty – namely political, economic, socio-cultural...

Evaluation report of IFAD's Niassa Agricultural Development Project (NADP).

Issues of sex and food are often inscribed in male/female relationships. Frequently in a western context sex is perceived as a site of male power and female subordination, while food and cooking are seen as female domains, but still sites of subordination, as elements of women's household chores. In this article, looking at issues of sex and food in a rural matrilineal setting, power aspects of male/female relationships as mediated through sex and food emerge somewhat differently. Sexual...

This chapter aims to shed light on the nature of men’s and women’s enterprises in Africa, to assess the extent to which the constraints and obstacles faced by women and men entrepreneurs may differ, and to address whether the constraints and obstacles entrepreneurs face affect the productivity and performance of men’s and women’s businesses differently.We begin with a brief overview of gender in the economy, followed by a more detailed analysis of available Enterprise Survey data where key...

This is an update of the previous Gender Profi le for Mozambique which was produced in 2000. Sida produces gender profi les for several countries with the purpose of providing a short and concise summary of the gender equality situation in partner countries. The profi e is a desk study reviewing and compiling available statistical material that may be of interest to anyone interested in women’s social, economic and legal position and understanding gender relations in Mozambique. The human...

This thesis is based on the archival and fieldwork research, and sheds light on the area which has been little studied or reflected in scholarly literature: Islam in Northern Mozambique. Its particular focus is on African Muslim leadership in Northern Mozambique, which has historically incorporated Islamic authority and chiefship. The link between Islam and the chiefly clans existed since the eight century when Islam made inroads into the northern Mozambican coast and became associated with...

State Recognition and Democractization in Sub-Saharan Africaآ explores the link between liberal-style democratization and state recognition of traditional authority in Sub-Saharan Africa. Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade. It scrutinizes how, in...

Existem actualmente taxas de utente cobradas em grande parte dos serviços de saúde públicos, em Moçambique. No entanto, historicamente, o partido no poder, a FRELIMO, tem sido bastante favorável a uma situação de serviços básicos de saúde gratuitos, e considera que a eliminação de barreiras de acesso à educação e saúde básicas constituem elementos fundamentais da estratégia de redução de Pobreza e de êxito nas Metas de Desenvolvimento do Milénio. O Governo de Moçambique considera ainda que a...

This report examines the legal, administrative, and regulatory barriers that are preventing women in Kenya from contributing fully to the Kenyan economy. Building on the 2004 Foreign Investment and Advisory Service (FIAS) report, “Improving the Commercial Legal Framework and Removing Administrative and Regulatory Barriers to Investment,” this study looks at the bureaucratic barriers facing women in Kenya through a gender lens. The report makes specific recommendations to address...

This section presents the main results of the CIVICUS Civil Society Index (CSI) research project in Mozambique conducted between March and December 2007. The project was implemented by the Community Development Foundation (FDC) in close collaboration with CIVICUS (World Alliance for citizen participation) and with financial support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Aga Kahn Foundation and the European Union. The CSI project is an integrated research effort involving...

Indonesia was deeply affected by the 1997–1998 crisis, more so than its East Asian neighbors. Its economic contraction was deeper and more prolonged. It was the only one to experience a (temporary) loss of macroeconomic control. It also suffered “twin crises,” in the sense that its serious economic and financial problems were accompanied by regime collapse. Consequently, recovery was a slow and complex process, as new institutions had to be created, and old ones reformed under successive...

O presente Regulamento estabelece as formas de organização e funcionamento dos Conselhos Consultivos Locais, com vista a cumprir eficazmente com a sua função de articipação das comunidades locais na concepção e implementação e programas e planos económicos, sociais e culturais, em prol do desenvolvimento local.

This report presents findings from the Social Sector Performance Qualitative Study (SSPQS). The SSPQS was designed as a follow-up to the Social Sector Performance Surveys (SSPS), which were public expenditure tracking surveys undertaken in the primary and secondary education and government health and family planning systems between 2004 and 2006. In many respects, the SSPS findings were positive, documenting that systems of health and education service provision were functioning. While there...

This is the second in a series of six participatory and qualitative studies of poverty in Mozambique, done with the objective of supporting the government in monitoring and evaluating the ongoing Action Plan for the Reduction of Absolute Poverty, PARPA II (GdM 2005). The first report looked into social relations of rural poverty in northern Mozambique, with special reference to the District of Murrupula in the Nampula province (Tvedten, Paulo and Rosário 2006). This report will analyse...