Development and Assistance
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©ACDI/CIDA photos:
Bruce Patton |
The Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA) is the principal government agency delivering Canada's
official development assistance around the world, including
Mozambique.
Better targeting of Canada's aid dollars is essential
to strengthening the impact and effectiveness of development cooperation, as
well as ensuring value-for-money for Canadian contributions. Canada recently committed to focus our efforts and
resources in fewer sectors and countries, specifically:
- Promoting Good Governance
- Improving Health Outcomes
- Strengthening Basic Education
- Supporting Private
- Sector Development
- Advancing Environmental Sustainability
- Ensuring Gender Equality
Gender equality is a crosscutting theme throughout
Canada's development cooperation. Gender equality results will be systematically
and explicitly integrated across all programming within each of the five sectors
of focus.
Canada has been an active supporter of development in
Mozambique formore than 25 years. In 2002 Mozambique became one of CIDA's
"development partners" in Africa, based on its profound poverty challenge and
ability to use aid effectively.
Mozambique is the poorest country in the
Southern Africa region and the 10th poorest country in the world. Important
progress is being made in the fight to reduce poverty, with the percentage of
Mozambicans living in absolute poverty decreasing from 69% to 54% from 1996 to
2003.
Canada's Country Development Programming Framework for Mozambique
identified education as our principal sector of support, with additional
investments being made in the areas of health and HIV/AIDS control; agriculture
and rural development; gender equality and governance. In 2005, our bilateral
support to Mozambique amounted to $42 million (CDN).
Humanitarian support continues to be provided to
Mozambique as and when required, including for the current drought affecting the
central and southern regions of the country.
Find out more about CIDA's assistance to, and
programs in Mozambique
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