The Agenda 2025 is a nationwide multi-sectoral document aiming at reflecting on the future of Mozambique and establishing new ways for driving its development with the following objectives (i) to create a long-term National Vision through a participatory process; (ii) to prepare a National Development Strategy, defining the necessary policies and programs for responding to the objectives identified in the national development strategy. The achievement of these objectives will make possible (i) to increase capacity in government, institutions, and civil society for defining and implementing national economic policies, programs, and projects; (ii) to ensure consistency among short-, medium- and long-term economic and social policies; (iii) to increase the government’s capacity to play a key role in the coordination and management of development co-operation. The Vision at the basis of the Agenda is that within 2025, Mozambican men and women will use their capacity, energy, and knowledge for building together with an enterprising and continuously successful country. The Strategic Options outline the main actions conducting to the materialization of the Vision in the following domains (i) Human Capital; (ii) Health; (iii) Education; (iv) Social Capital; (v) Economy and Development; (vi) Good Governance. To help eliminate hunger and malnutrition, the Agenda 2025 aims to (i) reduce child and mother mortality and malnutrition; (ii) face the causes of famine, poverty, to reduce vulnerability, to produce improved seeds, family production, and act on the management of water; (iii) ensure food security by continued production and adequate storage. More productive and sustainable agriculture can be reached through (i) promotion and expansion of rural finance to ensure complementary financial resources to stimulate agricultural production; (ii) agricultural mechanization associated with technological innovation; (iii) investment in a strong system of agricultural technology and seeds, with well-qualified staff, emphasizing research, participatory extension, and entrepreneurial management. Rural poverty shall be tackled with the following tools (i) the development of scientific education and technology as a potential input for economic growth and the eradication of poverty; (ii) supporting populations in rural areas to increase production and productivity, to develop the social and cultural basis, and to expand essential infrastructure; (iii) discouraging migration from rural to urban areas, supporting the creation of better living standards in the countryside; (iv) stimulating a broad rural development program in which all actors are involved and mobilized (Government, entrepreneurial sector, associations, rural communities, universities, NGOs, religious and solidarity organizations, cooperation partners); (v) promoting policies and practices for territorial planning and urbanization; (vi) supporting entrepreneurial initiatives that generate employment directly in the rural sector using labor-intensive technologies; (vii) promoting the processing of agricultural and livestock products from the household sector. To enhance more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the Strategy suggests the following (i) modernization of the productive sector, currently characterized by the export of unprocessed raw materials, introducing modern technologies able of competing with their foreign counterparts; (ii) stimulating access to essential goods, facilitating trade and marketing of surpluses; (iii) increasing productivity and revenue in the countryside and ensuring that the goods it produces reach markets in a regular manner and at competitive process, and promoting agro-industrial processing; (iv) promoting feasible investment programs particularly in the agricultural sector, in agroindustry, industry, mining, tourism, energy resources, etc.; (v) producing for the internal and international markets exploiting the local knowledge and practice; (vi) promoting the produce market giving particular attention to quality control, supporting the initiatives aimed at reaching the levels required by consumers; (vii) develop rural finance and stimulate micro-finance; (viii) promote rural markets including the development of better spatial linkages with transport and communication infrastructure, ensuring worthiness of access roads to production markets. As for Governance, to achieve the expected level of Good Governance it is necessary to look, inter alia, into the following elements (i) political system should be laid upon multi-party democracy; (ii) Government system should be supported by the Rule of Law and the extensive participation of citizens; (iii) defense and security; (iv) separation of powers in the State and their interdependence; (v) independence of the judicial power and proper functioning of the Justice apparatus; (vi) institutional relation of the State bodies; (vii) electoral system; (viii) gender equity; (ix) protection and better use of natural resources.
Mozambique · 2003-11-01