Mozambique has achieved impressive economic expansion since the end of the civil war. Over the past five years, the economy registered average annual growth rates beyond 6.5 per cent. This performance has been driven by recovery in a range of sectors previously devastated by war and poor economic policy choices, including agriculture, transport, manufacturing, tourism, banking and other services.
The large-scale inflow of foreign aid has also played a key role, as has investment in a number of industrial mega-projects. Along with this performance, significant achievements in social sectors were noticeable; namely, improvements in child and maternal health; school enrolment rates; improvements in access to water; etc. Despite all these achievements, still 54 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line according to 2005 figures.
There are some concerns that the economy is growing at two speeds. Growth has taken place in new, dynamic, capital-intensive sectors with the help of large inflows of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in capital-intensive mega-projects that have little direct impact on employment. It has been noted in the last MDG progress report that Mozambique will not be able to respect some of the MDGs as for instance on Gender and HIV AIDS.
UNDP's support in the area of HIV/AIDS and poverty reduction focuses on providing policy advice and strengthening Government's capacity in key participatory planning monitoring and evaluation mechanisms and HIV-AIDS and Gender mainstreaming. In order to ensure increased effectiveness of the participatory monitoring efforts of Government, additional support is being provided to Civil Society Organizations in order to strengthen their capacity in evidence based advocacy and a Civil Society Index/Mapping is being developed.
UNDP also continues to forge partnerships at the local level with civil society organizations and the private sector to implement targeted demonstration programs for poverty reduction and employment generation. These include efforts related to micro-finance and the development of pro-poor sustainable businesses.
Most of the projects in this area are managed by Poverty and HIV-AIDS Unit, contacts of which are available on the right side of this page.
UNDP Contact:
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4630201 |
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00055052 |
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00055103 |
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46376 |
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00046182 |
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00046315 |