CMI Briefs

As melhorias que tiveram lugar em Maputo entre 2007 e 2010 nas áreas de redução da pobreza, educação, saúde, água, electricidade, saneamento, etc. parecem – ironicamente – ter trazido mais desafios aos...

Recent elections in Uganda produced the outcome “everyone expected”: President Museveni and the NRM-party won. After 25 years of Museveni in power, the opposition has failed to pose any significant...

In 2004 Angola’s Ministry of Finance and China’s Ministry of Trade signedthe first of several financing packages for public investment projects inAngola. These packages provided for oil-backed concessional loans fromChinese...

On 14 February 2005, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 members of his staff and security detail were killed by a massive bomb in downtown Beirut. The murder gave...

Gender equality and women’s empowerment are high on the government and donor agendas in Sub-Saharan Africa, but have largely failed to have an impact. Rather than ‘mainstreaming’ gender, more attention...

A igualdade de género e o empoderamento das mulheres estão no centro das agendas do governo e dos doadores na África Sub-Sahariana, mas no geral não conseguiram ter impacto. Mais...

This brief presents the main conclusions from the fourth in a series of six studies monitoring and evaluating Mozambique’s poverty reduction strategy PARPA II by using a combination of quantitative...

Este resumo apresenta as conclusões principais do quarto estudo duma serie de seis de monitoria e avaliação da estratégia de redução da pobreza em Moçambique PARPA II, usando uma combinação...

”Free and fair” elections depend not only on factors like adequate election management bodies, election transparency and the absence of coercion. For election to be truly free and fair citizens...

Once a vibrant and dynamic society, Zimbabwe has since the turn of the millennium gone through a complex multilayered and pervasive series of catastrophes. Political instability, lawlessness, misgovernment and a...

Since the early 1990s, legislative and presidential multiparty elections have taken place in 42 out of Sub Saharan Africa’s 48 states. For a majority, fourth and fifth elections have now...

The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given post-confl ict situation. This brief challenges this position...

Many communities in Mozambique find themselves in the rural-urban interface, either by being small towns or rural areas in the vicinity of cities. There is growing evidence that the households...

Muitas comunidades em Moçambique encontram-se na interface rural-urbana, por serem pequenas cidades ou conjuntos rurais nas proximidades das cidades. Há uma crescent evidência de que agregados familiares e indivíduos que...

The first three in a series of six studies on poverty and well-being in Nampula , the city of Maputo and Sofala have revealed that there are positive developments in terms of...

Os primeiros três de uma série de seis estudos sobre a pobreza e bem estar em Nampula, cidade de Maputo e Sofala revelaram que há desenvolvimentos positivos em termos de...

After the civil war ended 6 years ago, and for the first time since 1992, Angola will go to the polls. On 5th September 2008, there will be parliamentary elections,...

As questões relacionadas com a pobreza urbana têm recebido pouca atenção em Moçambique, embora a taxa de pobreza urbana seja elevada e a desigualdade urbana esteja a subir. Nos bairros...

Issues of urban poverty have received little attention in Mozambique, even though the urban poverty rate is high and urban inequality is on the rise. In the bairros of Maputo,...

From the vantage point of a rural district in northern Mozambique, the development efforts by government and donors are visible through the enhanced capacity of the local administration and investments...