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Grievance Redress Mechanisms in the Health Sector

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In recent years, many governments in the Global South have integrated Grievance Redress Mechanisms (GRMs) into their governance...

“If We Stayed at Home, Nothing Would Change”: Gendered Acts of Citizenship From Mozambique and Pakistan

This article investigates how women emerged as political subjects through protests in two post-colonial contexts: the Hazara women’s...

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programming for Women’s Economic Empowerment

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

MUVA is a social incubator dedicated to developing innovative approaches to the economic empowerment of women in Mozambique. This paper...

Shaping Social Change with Music in Maputo, Mozambique

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In Mozambique, development programmes have traditionally drawn on music as a means to promote social transformation by educating citizens on key social development issues. Shifting the focus from music as a teaching medium to music as a rich source of information can provide vital insights into public opinion and political ideas, and significantly impact the development of citizen engagement projects.

Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This study examines Mozambican popular music to investigate three questions on empowerment and accountability. Our focus is on the protest song, conceived as those musical products that are concerned with public affairs, particularly public policy and how it affects citizens’ social, political and economic life, and the relationship between citizens and the state.

Energy Protests in Fragile Settings: The Unruly Politics of Provisions in Egypt, Myanmar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Zimbabwe, 2007–2017

Published by: IDS

How do popular protests about the basics of everyday life, specifically about energy, come about in settings where political authority is fragmented and conflict and repression common? How do state and political actors respond to protests which disrupt social and economic life, and undermine public authority? To what extent do such mass protests, often justified as inherently moral struggles over the basics of everyday life, empower the powerless or hold the powerful to account in such political settings? And how do external actors shape these events?

Representation and Inclusion in School Councils in Mozambique

Published by: IDS

This study was conducted as part of the Citizen Engagement Programme (Programa Cidadania e Participação (CEP)) in Mozambique – an empowerment and social accountability initiative to improve the quality of education and health services by increasing citizens’ influence on the management of schools and health units, the formulation of education and health policies, and the provision of education and health services.