The Role of Civil Society in Improving Transparency and Acccountability in Mozambique

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The Role of Civil Society in Improving
Transparency and Acccountability in Mozambique

• Centre For Public Integrity work

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outline

• Governance context
• Center for Public Integrity working areas
• What we have achieved
• Some challenges related to EITI
• Our working strategies

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 Governance Context

• Bad governance and corruption still problematics
  in Mozambique
• Mozambique is not performing well on most surveys
  (TI indicators, Global Integrity, Bertelsmann
  Transformation Index, World Bank Indicators)
• Negative perception also in the country
  (Governance and corruption survey 2006) customs,
  police, education are the worse sectors
• An Anti-Corruption Strategy was established in
  2006
• Mozambique has a substantial budget support and
  governance is one of the problematic areas

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Governance Context

• The lack of political will to combat corruption
  at the leadership level
• The weak judicial power (Anti Corruption
  Commission)
• Incomplete rules and regulations and public
  monitoring (Legal frameworks vis a vis
  international conventions)
• Strong overlap between the ruling party and the
  state
• Weak parliamentary role
• Good perfomance in economics growth

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Areas in which we are involved

• CIP was established in 2005 by a group of citzens
• Anti Corruption Legislagion
• Codes of conduct
• Extractive Industries Transparency Iniciative
• Anti-Corruption monitoring activities
• Local Governance monitoring program
• Public Awareness in Education sector
• Budget monitoring and analisys
• Elections Monitoring

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What we have achieved

• A strong government commitment to improve
  legislation in 2008 we did an assessment on the
  legal framework to hilight the weaknesses
• A new wave of prossecutions against corruption
  since 2005, CIP is warning the goverment on the
  urgency of dealing seriously with corruption in
  2008, judicial authorities started a new waive of
  prossecutions
• The adoption of a code of conduct by Teachers
  Union 2006, we help the union to design and
  adopt a code of conduct

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What we have achieved

• A revision of the Anti-Corruption Strategy in
  2006 we started to say tha the strategy were poor
  and a revision should be done
• A strong commitement by the government towards
  EITI in 2006, we started to push the government
  to join the Initiative the Gov joined in May
  2009
• More and more CSOs are involved in governance
  issues
• We were instrumental to ensure transparency and
  integrity in the last local elections

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Some challenges related to EITI

• Almost all of the extractive products are being
  exported (how to use them in the country)
• Secrecy of the contracts (contracts are not
  disclosed)
• Relevant legal elements to benefit the
  communities are not being implemented (social
  funds community participation in the projects
  linkages with other projects in the economy
• All of the companies are operating in free trade
  zones (with special fiscal treatment)

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Our working strategies

• We have a cooperative approach in working with
  different partners from the state and the civil
  society
• We are concentrated on activities that enhance
  principles of accountability and transparency as
  a preventive
• We avoid tracing or investigating individual
  cases of corruption
• We work on issues of good governance,
  accountability, transparency and combating
  corruption as a long-term continuous process
• We follow a professional, independent and
  non-partisan approach

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