The aim of the programme is to help the Assembleia da Republica become more effective in conducting its executive oversight function. This includes strengthening parliament’s capacity to oversee the budget cycle enabling the parliament to play its review, approval and oversight roles more effectively in major national development programmes, and finally to strengthen the parliament’s ability to inform and communicate with the public and civil society.
A number of activities were completed in 2008 towards achieving these objectives. They include: support to field visits by Parliamentarians to provinces mostly affected by the January-February floods of last year; support to the Fight against HIV/AIDS office ; support to the Parliamentarian Woman’s Office; installation of an internet space to introduce Parliamentarians to the new information technologies; the provision of equipment to the Press Room to create audio-visual archives of Assembly’s proceedings; training for specialized staff of the Secretariat General in legislative processes.

This year, the final year of the programme, the Danish government is also contributing, and total funding is 1.2 million US dollars
Signing the agreement were the first deputy chairperson of the Assembly, Veronica Macamo, and the UNDP resident representative in Mozambique, Ndolamb Ngokwey.
"We hope that this partnership will strengthen the ability of the Assembly of the Republic to carry out better its task of monitoring the budget presented by the government", Ngokwey told reporters. "Parliament should have a critical capacity to assess the budget, and give guidelines to the government, as well as strengthening its communication with civil society and with the media".
Macamo said that it was under this partnership that the Assembly had benefited from financial resources used in drawing up the law on defending the rights of HIV-positive citizens that was passed last year.