The CPAP was signed by Her Excellency the Minister of Cooperation and Foreign Affairs, Ms. Alcinda Abreu, and the UNDP Resident Representative/UN Resident Coordinator, Mr. Ndolamb Ngokwey.

In the development of the CPAP, UNDP Mozambique used the Government’s Five Year Plan and PARPA II as the key-base documents together with the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) and other UNDP internal strategic planning tools.

The core of the strategy focuses on capacity development for pro-poor growth and accountability in order to target underlying capacity constraints in the country. The CPAP will also support the operationalization of the Government’s decentralization strategy, which is the dominant policy initiative for the period under consideration.

UNDP seeks to do this by focusing its support in the functioning of selected district, municipal and provincial governments by stimulating local communities and civil society to demand better services and to contribute to the delivery of those services, and by stimulating sustainable local economic development.

The CPAP is a legal agreement between the Government of Mozambique and UNDP to execute the three-year Country Programme as part of the implementation of the objectives of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) signed by the United Nations and the Government on 27 July 2006.

For more information, please contact:

Nelson Xavier, Communication Officer

Mobile phone: + 258 82 3140600

Office + 258 21 481438

E-mail: nelson.xavier@undp.org

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