[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1134, 207], "category": "Text", "text": "of biometric voter registration, but it did not translate this investment into the streamlining of the voter register (deduplication of multiple registrations)."}, {"bbox": [96, 217, 1134, 322], "category": "Text", "text": "At the time of formulation, the CNE/STAE website remains offline. If this is not solved, the implementation of the EU EOM recommendation to **publish disaggregated results** by polling station remains complicated. The UNDP project will assist EMBs in improving the external communications media, including the institutional website."}, {"bbox": [96, 336, 1134, 576], "category": "Text", "text": "The CNE/STAE has been involved in civic and voter education for a long time, but not all population has been appropriately targeted, e.g. youth, women, persons with disabilities. EMBs are interested in new communication approaches and channels. While Mozambique has held elections against the backdrop of the peace process, it has never faced the challenge of **registering and polling nearly one million IDPs** displaced as a result of the armed violence in the North. The security situation could limit access to parts of the territory, especially in Cabo Delgado. The CNE intends to register part of the IDPs by mobile registration. With mobile registration, without accompanying measures, stakeholders might face lack of administrative and legal certainty of when and where exactly they can register. The modified approach would also affect non-displaced citizens in IDP host areas, making voter information critical for inclusion."}, {"bbox": [96, 587, 1134, 668], "category": "Text", "text": "The electoral processes in Mozambique are also susceptible to various **natural hazards** including the reoccurring strong cyclones and floods, which are affecting the country with an increased regularity. These could affect elections operations in certain areas, making access to some polling station difficult or impossible."}, {"bbox": [96, 679, 1134, 863], "category": "Text", "text": "The 2019 elections attracted a high number of international election observation missions, including the African Union, SADC, CPLP, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the EU. National observation has played an important role during previous electoral processes in Mozambique. However, since the dismantling of the Observatório Eleitoral, the biggest umbrella organisation for election observation, there was a fragmentation and the disappearance of national observer groups in the period between elections. In the following ones different NGO coalitions were created and competed for funding. As the Election Follow-up Mission in 2022 pointed out, the consolidation of the national observation efforts is needed."}, {"bbox": [96, 876, 1134, 1088], "category": "Text", "text": "In the framework of the EU Support to the Consolidation of Democracy a nascent consortium of NGOs for national observation, \"Integridade\", is emerging. It gathers seven NGO platforms and religious organisations focused on different issues such as integrity/transparency, gender, persons with disabilities, media, etc. Integridade plans to conduct selected Parallel Vote Tabulations (PVT) in the most competitive municipalities in 2023, but so far not for 2024. Mozambique allows PVTs and even publication of their results findings, but according to stakeholders, irregularities tend to occur before results protocols are posted—which limits the value of PVTs. In 2019, several EU-funded election observation CSOs were denied accreditation by provincial CNE branches or accredited last minute."}, {"bbox": [96, 1102, 1134, 1157], "category": "Text", "text": "The 2024 general elections will result in an important number of the newly elected MPs that may have no previous experience in that role and will not be familiar with the rules and procedures and good parliamentary practices."}, {"bbox": [96, 1168, 1134, 1354], "category": "Text", "text": "The Assembly of the Republic, as well as a number of Ministries, have **limited resources to address technical legislation**. Moreover, limited consultation is held on specific legislation issues. Over the past 20 years, the Mozambican Parliament has conducted four committees of inquiry. During its 2022 Fall session, the three party benches (*bancadas*) asked government 16 written questions, and six of those came from the Frelimo *bancada*.³ Committees and *bancadas* only have one permanent adviser each with a general or/and law background. Technically complex legislation, has lead committees and *bancadas* to request assistance to better understand and address the implications of technical issues."}, {"bbox": [96, 1365, 1134, 1523], "category": "Text", "text": "While the Parliament maintains ceremonial partnerships with a number of international and regional parliaments,⁴ and some of its commissions have benefitted from south-south and triangular cooperation (e.g. the Budget Committee in the framework of PALOP-TL cooperation), it lacks research partnerships with peer national parliamentary research centers for the exchange of comparative knowledge and research. The Assembly of the Republic also does not engage in meaningful research partnerships with national research institutions or universities."}, {"bbox": [85, 1596, 466, 1622], "category": "Footnote", "text": "³ https://www.parlamento.mz/?page_id=4712"}, {"bbox": [85, 1621, 466, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ https://www.parlamento.mz/?page_id=984#"}, {"bbox": [1037, 1680, 1144, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 25"}]