Mid-Term Review of the AGIR Programme. Final report.

This mid-term review report of the ‘Action Programme for Inclusive and Responsible Governance’ (AGIR) in Mozambique was carried out from August 2012 to its completion at the end of October 2012 by a three-member review team fielded by Indevelop. A presentation of the preliminary findings was made on October 24th, 2012 to AGIR intermediaries and AGIR CSO partners. Subsequent to this presentation, the review team was provided with the just-completed 2012 semi-annual report, which was written and submitted jointly by AGIR intermediary organisations. AGIR has duration of five years beginning in 2010 and ending in 2014. Sweden is the only core donor, with Denmark and the Netherlands also providing support to participating INGOs (International Non-Governmental Organisations). The programme works with both national partners and with organisations in the provinces. In an effort to strengthen civil society and civil society organisations within Mozambique, the Swedish Embassy initiated the AGIR programme in 2010. The objective of AGIR is to: Support Mozambican civil society organisations, strengthening their capacity for and impact on improving transparency, accountability, citizen’s participation, access to information, respect for human rights, and gender equality. In line with the Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action, AGIR is structured to provide “good donor-ship” through support given for CSO ‘core funding’ that is aligned with the “strategic direction of the organisation” and to support and facilitate linkages and knowledge sharing between Mozambican CSOs.2 The main support modality for this capacity strengthening of CSOs is to “work through a limited number of qualified intermediary organisations within the following four clusters of support: i) Participation, social and legal accountability, including monitoring of respect for human rights; ii) Social accountability in management of natural resources and community land rights; iii) Transparency, financial and political accountability; and, iv) Promotion of access to information.”