UNDP Mozambique United Nations Development Programme AnnualAnnual RReporeportt 20092009 UNDP Mozambique Av. Kenneth Kaunda, 931 P. O. Box 4595 Maputo Tel: +258 21 481 400 Fax: +258 21 491 691 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] www.undp.org.mz United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the UN's global development network, advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners. Published by UNDP Mozambique Cover photo: Eeva Parviainen, UNDP Mozambique Designed and printed by Leima, Impressões Originais, Lda. © UNDP 2009 S S UNDP Mozambique Annual Report 2009 Foreword 2 ONTENT ONTENT 1 Together with the Government 5 C C 2 Highlights of the Year 8 3 Aid Effectiveness and Delivering as One 11 UN agencies helping Millennium Village communities to help themselves 13 4 Eradicating Poverty and tackling HIV and AIDS 15 Poverty reduction monitored by Civil Society Organizations 17 5 Fostering Democratic Governance 19 Strengthening legal institutions 21 Capacity developed for democratic elections 22 Parliamentary oversight fortified 24 A decade of decentralization 25 6 Preventing Crisis and Adaptation to Climate Change 27 Expanding mine action 28 Adaptation to climate change in Chicualacuala 31 7 Analyzing Policy and Economics 33 Differences in Human Development Indices analyzed 34 8 Behind the Scenes: Operations and Agency Services 35 9 Expenditure and Resources 37 Acronyms 39 Photo Captions 40 ANNUAL REPORT 2009 1 Foreword UNDP has been a partner of the Mozambican people and also meant strengthened media coverage of the their Government since Independence. The first Country elections, as did the website that the electoral authorities Programme was approved in 1977 and the subsequent maintained with UNDP's support. almost quarter century of fruitful collaboration has seen UNDP's programme of support evolve as the govern- Our support for the Africa Peer Review Mechanism ment's own priorities have evolved in the pursuit of (APRM) is another area in which I am proud to say UNDP sustainable development and to strengthen human supported the deepening of Mozambique fledgling capacities. In the last fifteen years or so since the Peace democracy. The Country Report was finalized this year, Accords in 1992, UNDP has consistently supported the with UNDP support, and provided importance guidance government in its efforts in developing policies for to the government. The action plan for the following poverty alleviation, in deepening good governance, years will provide a critical basis for a way forward, especially decentralization, in its good stewardship of its guided by the principles of transparency, accountability, environment and, more recently, in addressing the technical competence, credibility, which puts into challenges of climate change. practice universal as well as African values. Since 2007 UNDP's support for Mozambique has come Particularly important, in Mozambique as in all countries within the context of UN reform, specifically the struggling to combat poverty is the role of women. The Delivering as One (DaO) initiative of which Mozambique law against domestic violence, which was passed into is a pilot. The achievements that I will mention out of the law in 2009, benefited from UNDP's support to the many that are described in this report were all done in National Assembly. At the same time, the Ministry for close coordination with other UN agencies. Like every Women and Social Action received support in its efforts agency in the UN family, UNDP retains its particular area to mainstream gender into development policies, and of comparative advantage and competence, but ever over 100 women received training in the development of closer coordination and integration of programming informal businesses. arrangements has meant that the institution can gain from the unique expertise and experience of its sister HIV and AIDS remain the most important threat to agencies. UNDP has played a central role in the DaO Joint development in Mozambique. UNDP is of course part of Programmes, as participating agency in eight and the UNAIDS which, through the United Nations Team on convener in four. UNDP fulfils its mandate for aid AIDS (UNTAM), focuses on activities that promote and coordination through its support to my role as Resident improve universal access to prevention, treatment Coordinator. In addition, like all other agencies, it has support and care. UNDP's role has been to support the played a key role in the aid architecture in Mozambique. mainstreaming of approaches to combating HIV and AIDS, through support to national institutions, civil This year UNDP continued its strong support for the society and within the decentralization agenda, for Development Observatories, for example, which example. provides the opportunity for civil society to engage with the government in its efforts to reduce poverty. Not only I am especially proud of UNDP's contribution to do the Development Observatories help improve the decentralization in Mozambique. For over ten years, quality of government policies and programming, but UNDP in collaboration with UNCDF have worked with they represent an important contribution to a deeper the government to develop and pilot a model for local and more accountable democracy. UNDP's support to development based on decentralized planning and the electoral authorities ever since before the first finance. This model has been progressively adopted by national elections in 1994 has also paid off. Observers all the government and donors and in 2009 the agreed that the municipal elections in 2008, and the Government established a National Decentralized presidential, national assembly and provincial assembly Planning and Finance Program, developed with elections were all conducted technically very well, technical support from UNDP. Covering all 128 districts of despite the considerable logistical challenges. With the country, the programme will mainstream technical UNDP support, the electoral authorities this year were assistance for the consolidation of decentralized and able to train 15,000 registration officers, 66,000 polling participative planning and will have a budget of officers and 1,500 civic education agents. Moreover, the approximately $50 million over five years. media centres in Maputo and in the provincial capitals 2 ANNUAL REPORT 2009 UNDP's support for crisis prevention and environmental and where donor partners choose to earmark their funds management has grown substantially in recent years to particular activities and where their rules do not allow and particularly in 2009. A new and strengthened unit them to contribute to a common fund. within the UNDP country office is managing a number of new projects aimed at supporting the government to 2009 has been an important year for UNDP and the UN understand better threats from climate change and system in Mozambique, in which important results have environmental degradation, to learn from and share been achieved, not least within the DaO Joint regional experience, and to develop better policies that Programmes. Looking forward, 2010 will be even more are sensitive to risks from the natural environment. important, marking the year in which the UN will develop Particularly noteworthy to me is that, with the support of its new UNDAF in support of the government's new five UNDP's demining project, Mozambique is within sight of year development plan and its operational plan. I would ridding the country of the scourge of landmines for like to thank our partners for their support, and look good. The National Demining Authority, with UNDP forward to an exciting year ahead in which, our colla- support, has engaged and managed demining operators boration will become even closer. over the last several years. The North of the country is now mine free, and there is strong reason to hope that the same will be said of the centre and south of the country by 2014. This is a singular achievement, almost without parallel in post Cold War history. In addition to UNDP's achievements through its progra- mmatic support, last year saw also UNDP improving its operational performance and playing an important role with other agencies is realizing greater efficiencies by harmonizing and, wherever possible, joining, UN agencies' operational processes. For example, UNDP has been a leader in implementing the UN's Harmonized Approach to Cash Transfer, which greatly streamlines the way in which UN agencies provide financial inputs to the government's programmes. Also in 2009, UNDP took a major role in the creation of a One UN ICT platform, creating a virtual One Office. These are just two of the operational aspects of the UN's Delivering as One reform on the operational side of which UNDP is, of course, a central player. These will be described at greater length in the Delivering as One Annual Report. Within its own offices, demand on its operational services has increased exponentially, as the increase in procurement volume described in these pages suggests. Ndolamb Ngokwey UNDP's overall delivery of funding also increased in 2009 to over $18 million from $17 million in 2008, with the help Resident Representative of continuing strong partnerships with bilateral donors. The distribution