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Moçambique é uma colónia portuguesa antiga, que alcançou a independência em 1975, depois da queda do regime fascista português em Abril de 1974. O sucesso militar da Frelimo contra os portugueses, deu legitimidade a este movimento para se impor como o único representante da sociedade (Cahen, 2003). Em 1977, o Comité Central da Frelimo realizou o 3° congresso que marcou oficialmente a passagem ao partido Marxista-leninista e de «Vanguarda». A partir de 1980, o campo político Moçambicano foi...

The promotion of decentralisation and local governance has long since been an established part of bilateral and multilateral development cooperation. In the context of fragile statehood, however, this area of development cooperation is frequently faced with the general suspicion of encouraging separatism, exacerbating conflicts, and thereby promoting the disintegration of the state. At the same time, fragile contexts create demand for institutional solutions concerning the distribution of...

Recommendations: 1. On planning and budgeting, greater coordination is recommended between planning (setting priorities) and budgeting (financial apportionment). Transformation of all District Health Services, Women and Social Action (SDSMAS) into Management Beneficiary Units (MBU) is necessary. 2. Stakeholders should bet more on application of national public financial management systems (PFM). The use of parallel financial systems instead of enabling the National Health System (NHS) to be...

This case study was commissioned by N’weti Comunicação para a Saúde to explore the changes emerging from the implementation of an adapted version of the Community Scorecard (CSC) tool in 11 health facilities catchment areas in Nampula. This case study discusses how N’weti has adapted the Community Scorecard (CSC) tool to better improve the quality of the participation and prospects of accountability for citizens. The case study presents evidence that the adapted CSC tool has resulted in an...

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...

Since independence in 1975, development in Mozambique has been guided by a sequence of Five Year Plans, (Planos Quinquenais de Desenvolvimento). In 2002 the Government of Mozambique (GOM) initiated a series of reforms in all development sectors, aiming to start a process of decentralisation and bringing management closer to the lower levels of state organisation (Provinces and Districts). For the Municipalities, a devolution model was chosen that is currently in the process of being rolled...

The Citizen Engagement Program (CEP) supports citizens to monitor the quality of health and education service delivery in 4 of the 11 provinces of Mozambique, as well as to advocate for the improvement of the quality of those services at the district, provincial and national levels. The CEP aims at contributing towards the increased availability of relevant information for citizens to better access and benefit from services delivered by the public sector; improving citizens' capacity to...

Houve em 2011 três acontecimentos que revelaram as dimensões dos desafios que se colocam à gestão do Sistema Nacional de Saúde moçambicano em geral e ao Ministério de Saúde (MISAU) em particular. O primeiro foi uma auditoria externa das contas de 2009 do PROSAUDE II e do Fundo Global, realizada pela empresa de auditoria KPMG e entregue ao governo e aos seus parceiros internacionais em Junho de 2011. Esta auditoria revelou fraquezas consideráveis, nomeadamente em relação à auditoria interna e...

The powerpoint has the same objective as the article (see related section). ------- The present study was commissioned by the Department for International Development (DFID) in Mozambique. As a piece of independent research on the political economy of the health sector, it is considered to inform DFID’s health sector support programme for the period 2012-2016 and to lead to more in-depth inquiries of Mozambique’s health sector. The latter has witnessed a number of institutional, management,...

The present study was commissioned by the Department for International Development (DFID) in Mozambique. As a piece of independent research on the political economy of the health sector, it is considered to inform DFID’s health sector support programme for the period 2012-2016 and to lead to more in-depth inquiries of Mozambique’s health sector. The latter has witnessed a number of institutional, management, financial and governance challenges in the past few years, including a change in...

This study presents an analytical ‘picture’ of the rural water sub-sector in Mozambique, describing the legal framework, mechanisms for coordination, harmonisation, funding, accountability, participation and supervision. The study was commissioned for the Sustainable Services at Scale, or Triple-S, initiative, which aims to contribute to improving the sustainability of global rural water supply. According to the general population census carried out in 2007, Mozambique had a total population...

Decentralization has been underway in Indonesia for more than ten years, but recently many have challenged the how effectively decentralization – and even democratization – is being implemented. Deterioration in the quality of public services, the many corruption cases involving local governments, and low economic growth rates in some regions have prompted discourse about whether the country is making a reversal away from decentralization and democratization. We recognize that the move...

This research adds depth to our understanding of development as a political process, provides rich evidence based on country experience, and points to the questions which aid agencies must address in order to be effective – including in more fragile countries. It demonstrates that durable reforms need to be constructed, nationally and locally, in a way that fits each political context and it challenges donors to build the capacity to contribute to this effectively

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...

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...

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...

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...

SDC has been implementing projects in support to decentralisation and local governance for about 15 years. Today, arounf 2/3 of SDC's country programmes include a support to local governance and/or decentralisation. For this reason, an independent evaluation of  SDC’s achievements on “Decentralisation  and local governance” took place in 2006‐2007. One of the recommendations of this evaluation  was to  carry out  a capitalisation of SDC’s experiences in this field. SDC’s  Governance ...

In 2001, Indonesia embarked on a decentralization process that has had a dramatic impact on the local political landscape, especially in relation to taxation and administrative processes. Rules and procedures that govern licensing, registration, some taxes and user charges have largely been devolved to local governments. A significant number of new licenses and charges have been created at the local level, and most licenses are issued through a complicated system of procedures and agencies....