This United Nations Development Assistance Framework for Mozambique (UNDAF) 2012 – 2015 is the expression of the UN’s plan to support the Government of Mozambique in its final stretch towards the MDG timeframe of 2015. It is also the first UNDAF developed under the Delivering as One (DaO) pilot in Mozambique.
 
This new framework combines the efforts of the 21 UN agencies active in the country to provide focused, effective and efficient support to the Government’s Five Year Plan (2010-2014), complementing the considerable support of bilateral and other multilateral partners. Mozambique is also among the countries where the Paris Declaration Agenda is most advanced, and this UNDAF represents the UN’s plans to fulfil the critical role required of it within the new aid architecture.
 
The UNDAF was developed in conjunction with the national Action Plan for Poverty Reduction 2011-2014 (PARP) whose central objective is to reduce poverty from 54.7% in 2009 to 42% in 2014. From being one of the poorest and most capacity constrained countries in the world in 1992, there have been significant improvements, first as part of the “peace dividend” and then thanks in part to impressive economic growth and sustained substantial development assistance in support of successive poverty reduction strategies.
 
The UNDAF results are organized around three focus areas:

• The Economic area aims at tackling the economic disparities through a concentration on the rural poor, especially women and youth, improving their productive capacities, income and livelihoods, and reducing vulnerability to natural disasters;
• The Social area aims at reducing inequality of access to services for vulnerable groups, especially women and children. Adopting the human rights based approach, the UN’s activities focus on improving the capacity of duty bearers to provide services, and on empowering rights holders, especially vulnerable people, to access and use social services for improved health, education, water and sanitation and social protection;
• Within the Governance area, the UN will concentrate, first, on deepening democracy and increasing public accountability through both strengthening the democratic and justice institutions of government and strengthening the capacity of vulnerable populations through civil society organizations and the private sector to participate effectively in policy formulation and protect their rights. Second, the UN will focus on improving governance at the local level, both strengthening government local institutions and ensuring better engagement and participation by local populations in their own development.