Mid-Term Review of the AGIR Programme - Sida

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Annex 2 – Terms of Reference
TOR – AGIR Mid-Term Review
Intervention background
The Swedish support to civil society in Mozambique is structured through a programme
called AGIR whereby four international NGOs (INGOs) with a common
overall objective, support local partner organisations. The programme was created
and started in 2010, fully operational in 2011 and has an agreement period ending in
December 2014.
The joint overall objective of AGIR is:
“Active citizens(hip) and a strong, vibrant civil society (that) participates in and influences
democratic process, contributing to more accountable governance, deepened
democracy, gender equality and human rights in Mozambique”
The four INGOs (called intermediaries in the programme) are IBIS, Oxfam Novib,
Diakonia and the Swedish Cooperative Center (SCC) and they implement four different
“sub-programmes”, as follows:
Access to Information – IBIS
Financial accountability; participation, social and legal accountability with focus
on underlying causes of discrimination – Oxfam Novib
Political Accountability; participation, social and legal accountability with focus
on the legal aspects of human rights – Diakonia
Accountability in natural resources and land management – SCC
Sweden has individual agreements with the four intermediaries, but the programme is
seen as a whole and large parts of the reporting is done jointly. The core of each of
the “sub-programmes” is the establishment of partnerships with a number of local
CSO partners active in the specific thematic area. Each partnership is regulated in an
agreement between the INGO and the partner. The nucleus of these partnerships are
core-funding, with a strong focus on capacity development.
The overall Swedish objectives are to increase the positive impact of Mozambican
civil society organisations on government transparency and accountability, citizen’s
participation and access to information and the respect for human rights, including
gender equality. This is done by supporting the intermediaries to:
a) Provide long-term core-funding and capacity development support to civil society
partner organisations, based on these organisations’ own strategic plans.
b) Support and facilitate linkages, mutual learning and knowledge and experience
sharing between civil society organisations.
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