“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...
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This article investigates how women emerged as political subjects through protests in two post-colonial contexts: the Hazara women’s...
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...
Background Mozambique is a context of great economic and political unpredictability, weak state institutions, closing civil society...
Background Studies of CSO governance in Mozambique have frequently identified issues with downward accountability, including...
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.
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.
Under what conditions does women’s social and political action contribute to the strengthening of women’s empowerment and lead to...
This research theme, under the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) Research Programme, is concerned with the meanings of empowerment and accountability from the point of view of the people’s experiences and perceptions, and this in turn means for collective action.
The Unequal Voices project - Vozes Desiguais in Portuguese - examines the politics of accountability in health systems in Brazil and Mozambique, exploring how accountability can be used to deliver better health services for citizens everywhere.
This international conference reflected on the Citizen Engagement Programme (CEP)’s contribution to field of social accountability and citizen participation in Mozambique and beyond whilst promoting a debate on future agendas that could capitalise and build on the programme’s legacy.