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O texto descreve os obstáculos históricos ao desenvolvimento de organizações da sociedade civil (OSC) em Moçambique, que conheceram um cenário mais acolhedor na Constituição de 1990. Mecanismos de apoio à sociedade civil capacitaram líderes locais, tornando-os melhor conhecedores de dispositivos legais, capazes de reunir evidências e de exercer impacto junto das populações. Contudo, as organizações enfrentaram problemas internos, relacionados com a ausência de recursos financeiros, com a...

The text describes the historical obstacles to the development of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Mozambique, which experienced a more welcoming scenario in the 1990 Constitution. Mechanisms to support civil society empowered local leaders, making them better knowledgeable of legal provisions, capable of gathering evidence and making an impact on the population. However, the organizations faced internal problems, related to the lack of financial resources, the training of their members...

How and under what conditions does citizen-led social and political action contribute to empowerment and accountability? What are the strategies used, and with what outcomes, especially in settings which are democratically weak, politically fragile and affected by legacies of violence and conflict? The A4EA programme has explored these questions in Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria and Pakistan over five years between 2016-2021. This paper presents the key findings and policy and practice...

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...

This study examines Mozambican popular music to investigate three questions: Are notions of empowerment and accountability present in popular music in Mozambique? If so, what can these existing notions of empowerment and accountability reveal about relations between citizens and state institutions in general and about citizen-led social and political action in particular? In what ways is popular music used to support citizen mobilisation in Mozambique? The discussion is based on an analysis...

Desde os primeiros anos de independência nacional, em 1975, o objectivo central da política educativa de Moçambique tem sido o de assegurar que todas as crianças em idade escolar tenham acesso à escola e nela permaneçam até concluírem a educação básica. Na prossecução deste objectivo, a expansão do acesso ao ensino primário foi realizada com relativo sucesso, uma vez que já se alcançou uma taxa líquida de cobertura escolar de quase 100%. Contudo, o impressionante aumento das taxas de...

Abstract: From the early days of national independence in 1975, the central aim of the educational policy in Mozambique has been to ensure that all school-age children have access to school and can remain there until they have completed their basic education. In the pursuit of this aim, the extension of access to primary education was achieved relatively successfully, given that it reached a net rate of school coverage of almost 100 per cent. However, the impressive increase in school...

An external evaluation of the project was conducted in April - May 2019. It looked into the strategy, performance and attainment of the general development goals. The results of the evaluation will be taken into account in the planning of a possible second phase of the project. According to the evaluation, the project is highly relevant both for the strategic partnership between Finland and Mozambique, as well as for the sustainability and inclusiveness of the economic growth arising from...

Corruption through opaque public contracts costs Africa billions of dollars in revenue loss annually. Globally, initiatives to address this have centred on information disclosure (ID) but under what conditions does it work to promote accountability in the extractive sector that for a long time has seen its revenue management as being a major cause of conflict in Africa? Our study on this issue in Mozambique reveals intriguing findings, which suggest that protagonists of ID would need to...

Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy chal‑ lenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‑demo‑ cratic settings alike. At the centre of these challenges is the question of accountability: who can be held accountable, on what basis, how and by whom for tackling or failing to tackle which inequalities. In the field of global health, inequality has long been a key issue. A significant body of work —...

Nos últimos 10 anos, os estudos sobre a participação política por intermédio das redes sociais marcam o debate na área dos estudos dos média. Em Moçambique, de forma particular, e no mundo, de forma geral, a juventude representa o centro galvanizador que encontra no uso das redes socias uma ferramenta quase ideal de expressão sobre as suas frustrações decorrentes da sua situação de gritante miséria social – desemprego e incerteza de vida constante a que os jovens se encontram expostos. Com o...

This study was conducted as part of the Citizen Engagement Programme (Programa Cidadania e Participação (CEP)) in Mozambique – an empowerment and social accountability initiative to improve the quality of education and health services by increasing citizens’ influence on the management of schools and health units, the formulation of education and health policies, and the provision of education and health services. In education, CEP enabled citizen monitoring of services through the...

There is a large volume of literature on youth participation in development, including on the benefits of involving young people in local, national, regional and global governance initiatives. Although not as voluminous, there is also a significant body of work on youth participation in civic life, though much of this focuses on issues of education and employment (Oxfam 2016) as well as health (particularly initiatives related to HIV/ AIDS). It was not possible to identify a large body of...

Este documento sumariza as aprendizagens feitas ao longo da implementação do Cartão de Pontuação Comunitária (CPC) no quadro do Programa Cidadania e Participação (CEP), o qual terminou em Dezembro de 2017. O CEP foi um programa de responsabilização social que tinha como objectivo final aumentar a influência dos cidadãos na melhoria da qualidade dos serviços de saúde e educação em Moçambique.

O Ministério da Saúde reconhece os Comités de Qualidade e Humanização dos Cuidados de Saúde nas Unidades Sanitárias como a principal forma de diálogo e ligação entre os serviços de saúde e as comunidades. Os Termos de Referência revistos, afirmam que o Comité de Qualidade e Humanização das Unidades Sanitárias constitui uma equipa de assessoria e coordenação ao processo de implementação da actividades de qualidade e humanização no âmbito da Unidade Sanitária. Destina-se a empreender uma...

Primeira sessão do dia aberto ao cidadão, uma iniciativa do conselho municipal da ilha de Moçambique para escutar as questões que atinjem os cerca de 50mil habitantes da primeira capital de Moçambique. As reuniões são realizadas nas comunidades para que de forma franca e aberta os munícipes possam apresentar os seus problemas

The objective of the baseline survey is to analyze and document the situation around accountability, transparency and governance of the O&G sector in the country prior to the implementation of the Oxfam project. It focuses on a selected group of indicators chosen for the country program logical framework, identified and approved in the Baseline Inception Phase. A total of 33 people were interviewed in the context of this baseline. This was accompanied by a thorough national and international...

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...

The Citizen Engagement Program (CEP) in Mozambique is an empowerment and accountability program aiming to improve the quality of health and education services through supporting citizens to monitor them. The program supports citizens to engage with service providers to address identified problems; it also aims to generate evidence for policy and program improvement at the local and national levels. This case study is structured in three main sections. The first section provides a background...

O presente guião é um instrumento que tem em vista dotar as OSC e cidadãos de modo geral, de conhecimentos sobre o funcionamento dos Conselhos Consultivos Locais (CCLs) de maneira a facilitar a sua participação e a alargar as suas intervenções na área de monitoria e advocacia da governação a nível distrital. Estão apresentados neste guião, os elementos que permitem perceber a organização, a estrutura, funções, e responsabilidades dos Conselhos Consultivos Locais, como eles funcionam, as...