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To understand how land-use frontiers emerge, we studied the actors driving investments in Niassa province, Mozambique. Our ethnographic research over 2017-2018 among commercial agriculture and forestry investors shows that successive waves of actors with different backgrounds, motives and business practices, arrived in Niassa to establish farms or plantations yet repeatedly failed. Waves come and go but leave sediments – legacies – that add up to gradually build the conditions for a frontier...

This article examines the rise of cash transfer programs and their embrace, since the 1990s, as a central element in global public policy on economic and social development and poverty reduction. Focusing on the example of Mozambique, an early adopter of such programs, it analyses the relationship between international organizations, development aid agencies, national government and local agents in the field, in the design and delivery of social protection policy. While external actors have...

A review of key developments in 2020 with a look toward trends to watch in the coming year.

Neste artigo, usamos 'diários de governação' para analisar as interações entre pessoas pobres e autoridades em contextos de Fragilidade, Conflitos e Violência (FCVAS) em Moçambique. Questionamos os significados de empoderamento e responsabilização, sob ponto de vista de pessoas pobres e marginalizadas, e procuramos perceber como essas pessoas vêem as instituições que as governam, incluindo as que as providenciam bens e serviços básicos, entre os quais os de saúde e segurança. As conclusões...

In this paper, we explore the use of a governance diaries methodology to investigate poor households’ interactions with authority in fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings in Mozambique. The research questioned the meanings of empowerment and accountability from the point of view of poor and marginalised people, with the aim of understanding what both mean for them, and how that changes over time, based on their experiences with governance. The study also sought to record how poor...

The global pandemic has taken a heavy toll on Mozambique’s economy. In 2020, the country experienced its first economic contraction in nearly three decades. COVID-19 (coronavirus) hit the economy as it was attempting to recover from the slowdown triggered by the hidden debt crisis and the tropical cyclones in 2019. Real gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 1.3 percent in 2020, compared to a pre-Covid estimate of 4.3 percent, as external demand declined, domestic lockdown measures...

The global pandemic has taken a heavy toll on Mozambique’s economy. In 2020, the country experienced its first economic contraction in nearly three decades. COVID-19 (coronavirus) hit the economy as it was attempting to recover from the slowdown triggered by the hidden debt crisis and the tropical cyclones in 2019. Real gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 1.3 percent in 2020, compared to a pre-Covid estimate of 4.3 percent, as external demand declined, domestic lockdown measures...

Based on the concept of limited and open access orders (LAO/OAO), this paper explains what appears to be a paradox: how was it possible that a former civil war country, Mozambique, which had been extremely successful in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) and which the International Monetary Fund praised as a great Sub-Sahara African success story in 2007, only a few years later found itself on the brink of a new civil war? We argue that the destabilization of the country was the...

In Mozambique, development programmes have traditionally drawn on music as a means to promote social transformation by educating citizens on key social development issues. Shifting the focus from music as a teaching medium to music as a rich source of information can provide vital insights into public opinion and political ideas, and significantly impact the development of citizen engagement projects. Maximum gains for development and civil society agencies can be achieved by mainstreaming...

Total is going ahead with its Mozambique LNG project despite a major armed insurgency in Cabo Delgado. This article discusses plans to secure its Afungi facility, including security forces involved. Facility employment is projected to triple by 2022, from 5,000 in 2020 to 15,000 by 2022.

This paper aimed at estimating the resources required to implement a community Score Card by a typical rural district health team in Uganda, as a mechanism for fostering accountability, utilization and quality of maternal and child healthcare service.

A mapping of CSOs and an analysis of key dynamics influencing CSOs actions and development Este documento é o relatório final do estudo de mapeamento das organizações da sociedade civil (OSCs) realizado em 2021, no contexto do processo de estruturação do Roteiro de Apoio à Sociedade Civil da União Europeia em Moçambique. Os objetivos do estudo são o de actualizar a informação do contexto de actuação da sociedade civil e as indicações estratégicas do mapeamento das OSCs realizado em 2015,...

The Bank Group’s Country Strategy Paper (CSP) 2018-2022 for Mozambique was approved by the Boards of Executive Directors in June 2018. The CSP was prepared in a context of economic downturn triggered by the deterioration of the country's financial situation and scaleddown dialogue between the Government of Mozambique (GoM) and Donor Partners (DPs). The CSP was anchored on two pillars: (i) "Development of infrastructure to enable transformative, inclusive growth and job creation", and (ii)...

No âmbito do processo de Revisão da Política Nacional de Terras e para responder aos consensus alcançados na IX Sessão do Forum de Consulta sobre as Terras (FCT) que incluiam a viabilização da transmissibilidade dos títulos de uso e aproveitamento da terra (DUAT) tornando este processo mais flexível, foi encomendado o presente estudo que tem como objectivo aferir, dentro do actual quadro legal, a viabilidade, sob o ponto de vista de oferta e da procura, da possibilidade de se implementar um...

Moma, one of the world’s biggest titanium mineral deposits, is located 160km from the city of Nampula in Mozambique, Africa. It is owned and operated by Kenmare Resources. The mine contains the titanium minerals ilmenite, rutile and zircon, which are used as feedstock to produce titanium dioxide pigment. It started production of heavy mineral concentrate (HMC) containing these three minerals in April 2007. It produced 1,201,100t of HMC and shipped approximately 853,100t of finished products...

A actual Proposta do Orçamento do Estado (POE) 2021 é a segunda para o quinquénio 2020-2024 e foi elaborada num contexto de transformações económicas e sociais impostas por um novo “normal” provocado pela pandemia da COVID-19, que resultou na maior recessão mundial estimada em cerca de -4.9% para 2020. Essa recessão foi causada pelas medidas de contenção que resultaram na paralisação da actividade económica em grande parte das economias. Em linha com as actuais tendências da economia...

Background: Tobacco growing has been considered a mainstay of Mozambique’s economy, but there is a dearth of analysis of the tobacco policy landscape in the country. Methods: Review of government and non-government documents and academic papers addressing Mozambique’s tobacco-growing history, the changes in the political economy of tobacco, and health policies addressing tobacco use and prevention of noncommunicable diseases. Results: Despite its tobacco growing and exporting...

Este relatório de pesquisa buscou especificamente identificar no contexto mundial, regional e nacional as estratégias e as políticas públicas relativamente à situação das raparigas e mulheres, analisar as narrativas e discursos das organizações da sociedade civil e instituições de pesquisa, tanto as que têm como foco os direitos humanos, como as que definem como objecto a promoção da igualdade de género, e analisar o conteúdo dos media nacionais sobre a Covid-19, com destaque para as...

This report builds on the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research project Navigating Civic Space, which seeks to analyze the extent to which COVID-19 is contributing to the opening or closing of space for civic action in three countries, namely Mozambique, Nigeria and Pakistan. Focusing on Mozambique, the report uses theoretical and methodological tools produced by the work stream and is essentially structured around the three main research questions: What is known about...

The 2021 edition of the African Economic Outlook focuses on debt resolution, governance, and growth in Africa. Chapter 1 examines Africa’s growth performance and outlook amid the COVID–19 pandemic. The chapter emphasizes policy options to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the short, medium, and long terms. Chapter 2 explores the causes and consequences of Africa’s debt dynamics by showing how the changing structure and composition of debt create...