As part of the process of advocacy and policy dialogue in the country, the project proposes the formation of a forum to promote and encourage regular national dialogue and debate on each of the human development reports within the civil society. It will also encourage the building of partnerships in addressing human development concerns and contribute to the achievement of the MDGs.

Donor Project Number: 00049915 – MOZ/03/003

Donor: UNDP

Duration: 13.02.2004 - 31.12.2007

Project Status: Ongoing

Funding Type: UNDP Trac 1

Total Project Funding: US $ 601,250

Total Committed (UN Core Funding): US $ 601,250

Total Disbursed: US $ 333,626

Undisbursed: US $ 267,624

UNDP Contact: Domingos Mazivila

Telephone: +258 21 481 453

Email: domingos.mazivila@undp.org

DAC Codes and Sector: 15110 Economic and development policy/planning

Counterpart: Southern Africa Research and Documentation Center (SARDC) in Collaboration with National Statistics Bureau (INE) and the ,Center for International Strategic Studies (CEEI/ISRI)

Location: National

MDG's:

• Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
  Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
• Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
  Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
• Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
  Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015
• Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
  Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
• Goal 5: Improve maternal health
  Target 6: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
• Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
  Target 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
  Target 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
• Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
  Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
  Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
  Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
• Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
  Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system (Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction – both nationally and internationally)
  Target 13: Address the Special Needs of the Least Developed Countries (Includes: tariff and quota free access for LDC exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction)
  Target 14: Address the Special Needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the 22nd special session of the General Assembly)
  Target 15: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
  Target 16: In co-operation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
  Target 17: In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries
  Target 18: In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications