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Mozambique: rebuilding an African nation
Twenty years of European Union-Mozambique cooperation

A strategy for the future

“Mozambique is a country that experienced the transition from an emergency assistance situation to a phase of post-war rehabilitation, and is now going through a whole development process.” This sentence from the EC-Mozambique 2003 annual report sums up a complex and evolving process that offers hope for the future of the country and its people.
Conclusions and lessons learned

Initiatives such as ‘Agenda 2025’ and the Poverty Observatory show that the Government has begun to recognise the importance of civil society in the development process, both in terms of policy dialogue and implementation. However, efforts are still required to allow civil society to fulfil its important role in policy and programme formulation, implementation and monitoring, so as to ensure that these correspond with the needs of the people in a realistic and sustainable manner. In the process of meeting these specific challenges, Mozambique aims to become a strong and influential member of the African community. While a lot remains to be done, the Government of Mozambique and the European Community share the conviction that the country is now on the road to greater prosperity. This conviction cannot be better summed up than in the Government of Mozambique’s own slogan: “For a better future!”