[{"bbox": [97, 154, 1134, 235], "category": "Text", "text": "Strong Institutions, and also addresses SDG 5 – Gender Equality, SDG 10 – Reduced Inequalities, SDG 11 – Sustainable cities and communities, SDG 13 – Climate action, SDG 15 – Life on land, SDG 17 – Partnerships for the Goals."}, {"bbox": [97, 256, 1134, 426], "category": "Text", "text": "Cidadania Activa will be implemented through grants awarded to civil society organisations to implement activities mostly at decentralised level aimed at improving the capacities and internal governance of local organisations and reinforcing collaboration with local public authorities on participatory processes and mechanisms (such as the Conselhos Consultivos and the Observatórios de Desenvolvimento). Capacity building activities will be complemented by financial and technical support for public policy and service delivery evidence-based monitoring."}, {"bbox": [97, 445, 1134, 557], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action will contribute to the realisation of the EU Gender Action Plan 2021-2025 GAP III, in particular to its thematic area of engagement “Promoting economic and social rights and empowering girls and women”, “Promoting equal participant and leadership” and “Addressing the challenges and harnessing the opportunities offered by the green transition and the digital transformation, Digitalisation, Climate change and the environment”."}, {"bbox": [85, 605, 322, 635], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 2 RATIONALE"}, {"bbox": [85, 671, 232, 696], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.1 Context"}, {"bbox": [97, 717, 1134, 915], "category": "Text", "text": "The Republic of Mozambique remains among the least developed countries in the world in terms of human development, witnessing also increasing inequality, including significant gender and geographical disparities. Notwithstanding the significant economic growth over the past two decades, progress has not been inclusive and has not translated into broad poverty reduction. Furthermore, the country has been dealing with a series of multidimensional shocks, including the 2016 ‘hidden debts crisis’, extreme climate events, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2017, Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is confronted with armed violence that has resulted in over confirmed 4 000 fatalities as well as around 1 000 000 internally displaced people (IDPs)."}, {"bbox": [97, 934, 1134, 1360], "category": "Text", "text": "Mozambique has launched structural reforms to ensure constitutional rights, promote justice, good governance, public integrity, sustainable development, and decentralisation. The latter required the revision of the national Constitution, Law n.1/2018, of 12 June, which had its foundations in the consensus on peace, stability and democracy in Mozambique, to include different stages towards the improvement of provincial decentralised governance. This process, critical to Mozambique’s development, foresees the participation of citizens and civil society in local governance processes. However, there have been challenges to ensure effective engagement of civil society and citizens and their collaboration with local public authorities. This is due to a number of factors, namely budgetary constraints, insufficient understanding of respective roles and mandates, and limited capacities to perform their functions. Constraints are also found at central level, where the space for dialogue and collaboration is shrinking: new draft legislation (on media, broadcasting, non-profit organisations), recently submitted to the Parliament –though subsequently withdrawn for further revision- could lead to limitations of the civic space at central and local level. Moreover, support provided to civil society by development partners is scattered, not adequately coordinated and not assisted by a mapping of interventions (as it was somehow facilitated in the past through the ODAMOZ platform), missing structured dialogue and collaboration with CSOs to cover the entire cycle of programming and retro-informing it."}, {"bbox": [97, 1379, 1134, 1548], "category": "Text", "text": "The country saw a swift emergence of civil society organizations in the 90s following the end of civil war and the need to provide widespread aid to those in need. In the following decades these organizations started focusing also on actions related to good governance (transparency, accountability, public services, participation in governance processes, etc.), human rights, and fundamental freedoms. The consolidation and expertise of these civil society organizations has been directly linked to their capacity to access funding from international development partners to implement their agendas."}, {"bbox": [97, 1568, 1134, 1622], "category": "Text", "text": "The EU has supported civil society in Mozambique through different cooperation assistance mechanisms and instruments. In the framework of the European Development Fund, since 2006 the EU has supported several"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1142, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 21"}]