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O relatório que se segue retrata a avaliação conduzida ao Sistema de Gestão de Finanças Públicas da Província de Cabo Delgado considerando o ciclo orçamental do ano de 2008, considerando a informação de contabilidade, reporte e auditoria relacionada com este ano mas produzida em 2007 e em 2009. A avaliação teve como base a Metodologia PEFA – Despesa Pública e Responsabilidade Financeira – devidamente adaptada ao nível subnacional (província) de acordo com as orientações metodológicas...

A 17a Sessão Ordinária do Conselho de Ministros realizada em 2007 tomou a corajosa decisão de descentralizar os fundos dos sectores de estradas, águas, agricultura, e infra-estruturas de educação e saúde para garantir a implementação efectiva da Lei 8/2003 sobre os Órgãos Locais do Estado e materializar os objectivos estratégicos definidos no PARPA II e no Plano Quinquenal do Governo. Tal decisão, em parte, reconhece que a pobreza absoluta que flagela muitos cidadãos está estreitamente...

Despite the fact that the liberation war occurred in northern Mozambique, where a considerable number of Muslims lived, their contribution to the independence struggle has been little studied. This paper focusses on their participation in two nationalist liberation movements, Mozambican African National Union (MANU) and Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO), and demonstrates that the prevailing idea in scholarship about Muslims’ aloofness from the liberation struggle is unjustified....

Este estudo enquadra‐se no âmbito dos Mecanismos e Instrumentos de Monitoria e Avaliação do Plano de Acção para a Redução da Pobreza Absoluta 2006‐2009 (PARPA II), que preconizam a preparação de um Relatório de Avaliação de Impacto (RAI). O RAI tem como objectivo sintetizar informação sobre a pobreza e a evolução de indicadores socioeconómicos e analisar esta informação com uma visão particular para atribuir causa e efeito. Como parte das prioridades do ...

The report is divided into seven chapters. This introductory chapter is followed by Chapter Two, which provides an overview of Mozambique as a backdrop to the report. Chapters Three to Six evaluate developments and challenges in the four APRM focus areas (Democracy and Political Governance; Economic Governance and Management; Corporate Governance; and Socio-Economic Development) respectively. Each of these chapters has two sections: the first analyses the codes and standards of the APRM,...

This report is based on information collected within the context of the study concerning Community Land Rights in Niassa Province in Mozambique, with special attention paid to the programme implemented by the Malonda Foundation. This programme is supported and financed by the Swedish Government and aims to promote private investment in the province while seeking, during the course of the process, to ensure equitable and beneficial social impact as an explicit objective, in particular for the local population.

The major cross-cutting issues which featured prominently in all the thematic areas are highlighted below. A comprehensive approach is needed to address these issues as they have wider ramification for the various dimensions of governance in Mozambique. The following are the major thirteen crosscutting issues emerging from this report: Poverty and Inequality; Party/government/business dichotomy; HIV/AIDs; Land Ownership; High levels of illiteracy; High aid dependency; Information flow and...

A periodização que se segue tem como objectivo dar uma visão geral da evolução da economia moçambicana e situar a indústria no contexto desse desenvolvimento histórico. Uma das conclusões que se pode tirar desta visão panorâmica é que, mais de um século depois da partilha de África na Conferência de Berlim e de 35 anos de independência, a economia moçambicana apresenta ainda um padrão de tipo colonial, tendo como traço dominante a exportação de matérias-primas e recursos naturais.

The objective of this study is to examine how the extensive institutional change of reforms to policy and legislation in Mozambique over the past decade has affected evolutions at the local level in the governance of natural resources. The particular focus of the research is an analysis of a community based natural resource management (CBNRM) initiative in North Sanga District of Niassa Province and a longitudinal study of its development between 1999 and 2007 based on my involvement as both...

This report forms part of a portfolio of work on youth focussed on two interconnected thematic areas: youth, jobs and growth and on youth exclusion, fragile states and conflict and complements work being conducted to develop a Youth Participation Guide for DFID staff. It is intended to inform a DFID Policy Briefing and a practical Guidance Note on addressing youth exclusion and unemployment. The objectives of the study are: (i) To scope out existing evidence and analysis on the links between...

Even before the impact of a global economic crisis kicks in, there is renewed thinking in Mozambique about a wider role for the state in social protection. Proponents are still struggling to convince others of the economic and social value of a broader investment in social protection. This is against the backdrop of institutional resistance borne of Mozambique’s political and economic history. The government attitude to social protection has been influenced by colonial experience of an...

Sociologists and anthropologists have had a long interest in studying the ways in which cultures shaped different patterns of health, disease, and mortality. Social scientists have documented low rates of chronic disease and disability in non-Western societies and have suggested that social stability, cultural homogeneity and social cohesion may play a part in explaining these low rates. On the other hand, in studies of Western societies, social scientists have found that disease and...

Since 2007 the World Bank's gender approach has moved away from the Wolfensohn-era emphasis on gender as central to social development concerns, towards a business case model that involves a far greater role for the private sector in efforts to reduce poverty and achieve gender equity. Using a case study of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and its project, 'Doing Business', to promote the ease of doing business across the world, I ask what this new direction entails for the Bank's...

O presente artigo é uma reflexão sobre dinâmicas associativas de jovens no Moçambique pós colonial. O objectivo desta reflexão foi identificar e analisar as motivações de engajamento dos jovens nesses agrupamentos. Baseando-se em aproximações empíricas feitas a duas associações de jovens - Associação Aro Juvenil e Associação Positiva Juvenil - a análise demonstra que dinamica associativa de jovens mete em evidência relações complexas entre identidade, contexto, o privado, o público e o...

The question of how to proceed with democratic decentralisation has been of political concern in Mozambique over the past decade. In accordance with post-war constitutional commitments to démocratisation after the country’s post-independence flirtation with socialism and a high degree of centralism, the process of decentralisation has taken two forms. First, a system of locally elected governments in the form of municipalities (municipios) for the urban and semi-urban areas was approved in...

See english abstract below. Pesquisa centrada nas políticas públicas do governo moçambicano para o setor da saúde, com foco voltado para programas de assistência à saúde materno-infantil. Tem o propósito de apresentar contextos básicos para a reflexão sobre a filosofia da implantação e implementação dos programas e a inserção da Enfermagem, mostrando seus marcos evolutivos. Constatou-se que, na década 70, o Sistema Nacional de Saúde adotou o Programa de Proteção Materno-Infantil, que na...

The main objective of this report is to capture the local configurations of gender relations in Nampula, by focussing on one rural and one urban area in the province. The former is the coastal and rural district of Mossuril, which is considered one of the most deprived districts in the province, both in terms of material poverty and human development (MAE 2005). The urban areas are Muatala and Namutequeliua, which are two of the most populous bairros in the city of Nampula and largely...

The purpose of this synopsis is to facilitate discussions between the government, civil society organisations, donors and other stakeholders in Mozambique’s efforts to reduce poverty and, more specifically, to contribute to the Impact Assessment Report (Relatótio de Avaliação de Impacto, RAI) which is to be carried out in 2009. We will focus on our main findings and preliminary conclusions, and will to the extent possible avoid repeating data found in the original reports to ease...

This study on power and participation in post-conflict settings analyzes a rural development project in Mandimba District of Northern Mozambique. The purpose is to gain understanding of the dynamics and possibilities of participatory approaches for increasing the influence of previously excluded actors in decision-making processes. The methodology for this study reflects two broad yet intertwined approaches. For the first component, the Mozambique in-depth case study research, I draw on my...

Mesmo antes de se fazer sentir o impacto duma crise económica global, há um pensamento renovado em Moçambique sobre um papel mais amplo do Estado na protecção social. Os proponentes lutam de modo a convencer os outros do valor económico e social dum investimento mais alargado na protecção social. Isto vai contra o pano de fundo da resistência institucional, que a história política e económica de Moçambique acarreta. Moçambique já era unido como uma nação sob o regime colonial português,...