Our Vision 

As members of the One UN family, we want to be a key policy advisor and development partner to the Government and People of Mozambique for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and Capacity Development.

Capacity Development 

The overriding theme of our current programme is capacity development, both for government and non-governmental counterparts. UNDP Mozambique supports capacity development of provincial, district and municipal administrations in the areas of coordination, planning, monitoring and evaluation. In the line with the public sector reform process, UNDP supports the government’s decentralization strategies.

UNDP has a strong focus on enhancing the role of civil society. Civil society organizations are encouraged to become fully-pledged development agents and capable to promote human development.

Since 1976

UNDP has worked in Mozambique since 1976, when the agreement of cooperation between UNDP and the Government of Mozambique was made. The Standard Basic Framework Agreement attached below was signed just after Independence in 1976, and establishes UNDP’s presence in the country. 

The legal authority for UNDP’s programme, within the framework of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF), is based on its Country Programme Document, which is approved by the UNDP Board, its Country Programme Action Plan and its Annual Work Plans. 

The development objectives of the current CPAP , which ran from 2007 to 2009 and was extended to 2011 , are focused on seven areas:

1. Development Planning, Coordination and Monitoring
2. Decentralization and Local Development
3. Democratic Processes
4. Justice, Security and the Rule of Law
5. Trade and Private Sector Development
6. HIV and AIDS and Gender
7. Support to Capacity Development

A new UNDAF is currently under development for a new programme of support, this time as part of the Delivering as One United Nations model, to being in 2012.

Standard Basic Framework Agreement  (SBBA) between UNDP and the Government of Mozambique

Decision-makers

UNDP in Mozambique is led by the Resident Representative, who is also the Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Mozambique. 

To allow the Resident Representative to perform his Resident Coordinator function, the day to day running of UNDP is delegated to a Country Director. Reporting to the Country Director are two Deputy Resident Representatives for Programmes and Operations respectively. 

UNDP’s counterpart in Mozambique is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.