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Mozambique Mozambique

The first Partnership Agreement between the NFP Facility and Mozambique was signed in 2003. The primary objective of the partnership was to increase multi-stakeholder participation from all levels in policy formulation and implementation related to sustainable forest and wildlife management in Mozambique.

In 2010, following an assessment and evaluation conducted using the nfp-Matrix of outputs and impacts of the first seven years of work, the NFP Facility and Mozambique renewed their commitment to working together on the national forest programme process through the signing of a new Partnership Agreement. The overall objective of this new Agreement is to review Mozambique's national forest programme to ensure that stakeholder participation, including participation from those at decentralized levels, is increasing in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of polices related to sustainable forest and wildlife management. More specifically, the Partnership will focus on the following issues: (i) forest sector governance, with an emphasis on the regulatory framework defined in the Forest Act and Regulation, the regulatory institutions, the instruments and transparency in logging license allocation and concessions, and promotion of participatory forest law enforcement; (ii) development of an incentive structure which removes perverse incentives and establishes a system of resource management and use based on mechanisms and practices which provide incentives for best practice and facilitate sound ethical investment, as opposed to short term exploitative extraction; and (iii) rights to and benefits from the forest sector which emphasize an agenda which supports those in poverty having use of the resource. Activities under the second Partnership Agreement include: (i) organization and stakeholder participation in the evaluation and update of the ongoing national forests and wildlife programme (ii) dissemination and implementation of the Forest Law and its Regulation at the local level; (iii) stakeholder participation in formulation of the instruments for Forest Law implementation and mechanisms detailed in the Forest Regulation and (iv) training and promotion of the best practices for conservation and sustainable forest management. A key component of the new Partnership Agreement is also the implementation of regular monitoring and evaluation of Mozambique's progress and accomplishments by a monitoring team.

Points of Contact

20 Jun 2012

Assessment of the nfp

In order to assess the progress and status of the nfp process, the Facility and FAO have designed a matrix to provide a clearer picture of how the country nfp processing are evolving, which elements are well developed and which elements remain weak and in need of further attention. The matrix has been tested in the countries to ensure the relevance of its indicators.

The matrix contains indicators for each phase of the nfp process: analysis, policy formulation, implementation and monitoring and evaluation. The indicators are clustered according to the primary nfp principles: country ownership, inter- and intra-sectoral linkages, partnerships and participation.

The matrix below was completed by stakeholders, in a participatory way, during a national workshop.

Each indicator was rated as follows:

the indicator has not been developed
the indicator is absent from the country nfp process
the indicator exists but is incipient
the indicator is progressing well within the country nfp process
the indicator is completed to the country’s full satisfaction - can serve as a model for others to follow

Implemented Activities