Mid-Term Review of the AGIR Programme - Sida

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1 I N T R O D U C T I O N Field Visits to CSOs: The AGIR mid-term review team used a ‘purposeful sampling’ process to select AGIR partner CSOs to visit. The final selection of these CSO partners sought to strike a balance between the thematic areas of each AGIR subprogramme and the geographical and territorial linkages (central and local) within which each operated. Additional criteria applied to the selection process involved the weighting of ‘core CSO partners to emerging CSO partners’, as well as the focus of each CSO’s work. Time and resource limitations for the mid-term review process also limited how many CSOs were visited and in what areas (geographical of Mozambique). This purposeful selection process was used to ensure that the review team obtained a broad perspective of the different experiences across the different intermediaries´ partners. Of particular interest was assessing the effectiveness of the programme in creating capacities and linkages at both central and local levels that trigger the necessary trickle down (capacities at central level being replicated at local level) and the desired trickle up effects (advocacy work informed and fed by the work and experiences at the grass-roots). The purposeful sample therefore also included locally-based organisations in the effort to assess the added value of the approach of the programme of focusing on national organisations. With this in mind, the review team decided to focus on two provinces – Nampula and Tete – and to visit AGIR CSOs in each of these areas. The selection of Nampula province was based on its history of embracing a vibrant civil society with an active participation in governance issues. This province, along with Manica, pioneered the participative planning and financing processes at the district level in the 1990s through the Community Participatory and Consultative Institutions (IPCCs). This experience, considerably documented, is considered a hallmark in decentralisation and for local participation processes in the country. While often used as a reference for subsequent dissemination at the national level, it is also the cradle of the community participatory and consultative institutions that inspired the local councils enshrined in the decentralisation law. The province’s civil society organisations are skilled in areas aligned with critical thematic groups (governance, water and sanitation, etc.) that contribute considerably to the relative strength of the Provincial Development Observatory. 14 While it is not the only province in Mozambique to demonstrate this kind of vibrant civil society, there is a solid foundation to consider Nampula; it is a province with a long history of having strong engagement with a vibrant and active civil society. 14 The province is credited with being the first to adopt the term “development observatory” instead of “poverty observatory”, as this forum was originally named. 27
1 I N T R O D U C T I O N Based on this perspective, the selected organisations in Nampula cover three subprogrammes: Electoral Observatory, Juvenile Parliament (political accountability); Rede da Criança (Children´s Rights Network); Association of the Blind and Partial Sighted of Mozambique based in Beira (vulnerable people’s rights – blind people), Diakonia; Forum of Community Radios, (access to information /IBIS); Mozambican Debt Group and Forum Mulher representatives and Akilizetho (Nampula-based organisation focusing district decentralisation), Oxfam; and a member of the Lareira Crítica (External Advisory and Partner Support Group to SCC) – Luisa Hoffman (SCC). The sample is particularly skewed to the Diakonia sub-programme due to the fact that it had more representative organisations in Nampula. In light of this, the review team took the opportunity to interview as many organisations as possible at the local level in the effort to assess the effectiveness of this reach. Apart from ACAMO (Association of the Blindand Partial Sighted of Mozambique, based in Beira), which has its headquarters in Sofala, each organisation’s senior management was interviewed at the central level. FORCOM (Forum of Community Radios) was contacted and was sent a list of questions which were responded to in writing. One government represenative was also interviewed as was a member of “Lareira Critica”, an external monitoring mechanism of the SCC sub-programme. The selection of Tete province was chosen as an example of challenges faced by the AGIR programme in central Mozambique. With a noticeably weak civil society (in the Mozambican context), Tete province is faced with acute challenges in engagement, advocacy, and human rights issues (resettlement and conflict at the local level in connection with the expanding mining industry) linked to areas of governance transparency and accountability at national and international levels. In contrast with Nampula, where various donors have been directly represented for a number of years, Danida is the only donor with a long-term engagement with Tete province dating back to the civil war. In Nampula, a number of strong innovative international development Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) (incl. SNV (International Non-Governmental Organisation, Dutch), CONCERN (International Non- Governmental Organisation, Irish), CLUSA (International Non-Governmental Organisation, American), CARE (International Non-Governmental Organisation, American)) have, since the 1990s, provided systematic and focused capacity development for local NGOs in specialised fields such as decentralisation and governance, extension services, saving groups and farmers associations, and modern cooperative movements. In Tete the INGO landscape has been focused on humanitarian response (MSF (International Non-Governmental Organisation, Doctors without Borders)), agriculture (World Vision), and only recently has been complemented by a range of HIV/AIDS oriented organisations. Overall, the thematic scope of INGOs and local NGOs in Tete is much more limited than in Nampula, with local CSOs not yet benefiting from the kind of solid, continuous, focused capacity development and specialisation offered by INGOs as in Nampula or from national/central CSOs. There are a number of reasons contributing to these differences. First is the fact that Tete was heavily impacted by the war and attracted a number of humanitarian organisations during the war and its 28
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