• Governance and political participation

Governance and political participation

This study is the first in a series of three on gender policies and feminisation of poverty in Mozambique, to be carried out in the period 2008-2010. Specifically, the document looks at gender and poverty in Mozambique, and gender policies an institutional framework.

The research questions for this paper are:

• what are the current government and donor policies for gender equality and the empowerment of women in Mozambique?
• to what extent is there an ongoing process of feminisation of poverty in the country?
• to what extent does current policy relate to the real lives of poor men and women in the country?

The recommendations from the authors are based on the premise that a stronger emphasis on gender equality and the empowerment of women is necessary, not only to fulfil commitments made by the Mozambican government for gender equality per se, but also to be able to fulfil the goal of poverty reduction. The recommendations focus on:

• the need for strengthening key institutions for gender equality
• the need for moving from general policy and regulation to targeted intervention that takes the variation in gender relations into consideration
• the importance of selecting a limited number of areas/interventions of high priority with emphasis on the importance of strengthening the economic position of women.

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