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Publication - Project Report
Formalising artisanal and small-scale mining in Mozambique: Concerns, priorities, and challenges
This paper reflects critically on efforts to formalise artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) – low-tech, labour-intensive mineral extraction and processing – in Mozambique. Drawing on findings from interviews with policymakers, representatives from ASM associations and consultations with 200 individual miners, the paper captures the details of the country’s ASM...
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Publication - Project Report
Práticas de gestão em escolas secundárias em Moçambique
Este estudo tem como objectivo caracterizar as práticas de gestão escolar existentes em escolas secundárias em Moçambique. Durante os últimos dez anos, o World Management Survey (WMS), iniciativa da London School of Economics (LSE), tem realizado pesquisas, com uma metodologia específica, sobre práticas de gestão em mais de vinte países e em diferentes sectores,...
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Blog post
The gendered impacts of COVID-19 in Mozambique: Challenges and way forward
Despite reducing gender inequalities over the past two decades, COVID-19 threatens to erode Mozambique’s gains as the pandemic’s social and economic consequences disproportionately impact women and girls. To prevent backsliding and continue progress towards gender equality, Mozambique needs greater investments in access to basic services, enhanced social protection...
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Countering Islamic radicalisation in northern Mozambique: Radio campaigning and adolescent sensitisation in religious schools
In recent years, major global violent conflicts have happened in Muslim-majority countries. Of these conflicts, a substantial and increasing share has been related to Islamist insurgents. However, the process of radicalisation and the effectiveness of measures to counteract it are widely understudied. Northern Mozambique is where a substantial discovery of natural gas took...
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Salience and accessibility of disaster risk information in Mozambique
Mozambique's coast is vulnerable to natural disasters and climate change. Quelimane, a city located by the mouth of the Rio dos Bons Sinais, is particularly exposed. Rapid population growth, due to a continuous influx of rural migrants, has resulted in an increase of informal settlements in flood-prone parts of the city. This introduced further vulnerability with poor...
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Poverty eradication in Mozambique: Progress and challenges amid COVID-19
Poverty has improved over the past 20 years; however, the COVID-19 pandemic jeopardises the gains achieved, pushing people into extreme poverty. Mozambique achieved independence in 1975, but it was only after the end of the civil war in 1992 that it began to experience some economic progress. The number of people living in poverty in 1996-97 was about 12 million,...
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Beliefs and behaviours towards COVID-19 in Mozambique
There is considerable uncertainty around the current state and future developments of the COVID-19 crisis in Mozambique, both for health outcomes as well as economic and social outcomes. As in many sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, measures such as imposed lockdowns are likely to be particularly challenging and even counterproductive in the face of fragile...
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A window into life during COVID-19 in developing countries
Our country economists in Ghana, Mozambique, Myanmar, and South Africa share insights on how lives have changed during the pandemic. With over 360,000 global deaths from COVID-19 as of writing, the pandemic has affected and upended daily life in almost every single country in the world, including all of the countries that IGC works in. While our in-country teams are...
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Managing access to healthcare in Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors’ note: This work is being co-developed with Janeth Dula, Sergio Chicumbe and Eduardo Samo Gudo from the National Institute of Health at the Ministry of Health in Mozambique. Low-cost solutions, like scheduled appointments, can improve healthcare delivery and medication adherence, while reducing vulnerability to infection. The district hospital of Nicoadala in...
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Mozambique’s response to COVID-19: Challenges and questions
The pandemic presents global challenges. How will countries with existing challenges and limited healthcare and revenue capacity respond to the crisis? Within a couple of days of the first case of COVID-19 being reported in Mozambique, the government put into place a stringent set of rules to control mobility. All sports and cultural activities were suspended, several...