Project Fact Sheet for 51140108

Project / Programme Title

MozTrabalha 2016-2021 (copy)

Brief Project Description

Several of Mozambique's development challenges to tackle the persisting and wide-spread poverty - especially in rural areas - are related to the current employment situation. During the last decade, the country has experienced a pattern of "exclusive" rather than "inclusive growth" where capital intensive, rather than labour intensive investments, have been the main driving force behind the high growth numbers which have created few productive employment opportunities or been translated into any form of structural transformation (Arndt et al, 2012). Around 80% of the labour force is in the agricultural sector with a large share of subsistence farmers, while other potentially labour intensive sectors, like manufacturing, has stagnated at a share of 3.4%. Productivity is low, especially in the agricultural sector. An estimated 5.4 million people work in the MSME sector with 4.5 million MSME owners and about 850,000 employees (SME survey 2012). Most of them are active in the huge informal sector. The number of enterprises does not reflect a culture of entrepreneurship but rather a situation where many choose it as a strategy for survival. MSME productivity is generally low. 22.6% of the labour force is unemployed with higher numbers for women (25%) and youth (40.7%). Women are over represented in the informal sector (IOF Trimester 2 Nov-2014-Jan 2015). An unknown but large number of people in employment are underemployed or "working poor". The country's demographic structure puts a pressure on the labour market to create productive jobs that absorb the 300,000-500,000 people annually entering the labour market. Additional challenges include gender specific constraints to employment, a large informal sector, low levels of job security, high income uncertainties, low level of occupational safety and health, child labour, work related discrimination, and limitation in the freedom of association. The program has a budget of 80 MSEK over five years, including an inception period of nine months where some analytical work will be done in order to inform the remaining program design and the more detailed work plan and budgets for the implementation phase. Sida is initially the only funder and only one agreement for the entire implementation period is proposed. The expected impact of the program is “An increased number of Mozambican women and men, in particular youth and those living in rural areas, have access to decent employment opportunities as a result of both institutional and market development support provided”. It is estimated that the program will be able to improve employment related policies and regulations in Mozambique, improve the coordination and implementation of employment related initiatives, improve the social dialogue, and it is estimated to reach 15,000 beneficiaries living on less than 2 dollars/day in rural Mozambique, out of whom at least 50% will be female and 60% will be young people. The program has two components where Component 1 is focusing on strengthening the capacity and coordination at the national/institutional/macro level, and Component 2 on creating and improving employment on the local/meso/micro level. The program will be implemented by ILO who will set up a Project Management Unit (PMU) in Maputo initially consisting of eight staff with backstopping support from ILO regionally (Lusaka, Pretoria, and Abidjan) and from the HQ in Geneva. The main external implementing partner will be the Ministry of Labour (MITESS, including LMO and INEFP). It will also include six other ministries, some provincial and district governments, and more than ten labour market partners including private sector actors. A Project Steering Committee will be established to monitor the progress of the program and it is likely to become a sub-commission of the already existing consultative commission for employment CCT (Commisao Consultiva do Trabalho).

Donor

SWEDEN

Donor Agency / UN Agency

Suécia

Government Counterparts

Map

Project Information

Project Status

Ongoing

Mozambican Project Number

Fonte de Recurso

Actual Start - End

2016-11-21 / 2022-09-30

Planned Start - End

2016-12-01 / 2021-12-31

Date of Signature of MoU/Contract

n/a

National / Regional

National 

Type of Implementation

Multilateral 

Project Contact Person

Love Theodossiadis | 21 480 300 | love.theodossiadis@gov.se 

Project Internet Link

 

Comments

 

Funding Information

Aid Modality

Sector Program

Currency

SEK

Type of Funding

Grant

On/Off Budget

Off Budget

On/Off Treasury

Off Treasury

Funding Totals

Disbursements

3,000,000 EUR

Commitments

9,600,000 EUR

Undisbursed

6,600,000 EUR

Historic Funding

Disbursements

0 EUR

Commitments

0 EUR

Funding 2016

Disbursements

3,000,000 EUR

Commitments

9,600,000 EUR

Disbursements 1st Quarter

0 EUR

Disbursements 2nd Quarter

0 EUR

Disbursements 3rd Quarter

0 EUR

Disbursements 4th Quarter

3,000,000 EUR

Funding Forecast 2018

Disbursements

0 EUR

Commitments

1,800,000 EUR

Funding Forecast 2019

Disbursements

0 EUR

Commitments

2,040,000 EUR

Funding Forecast 2020

Disbursements

0 EUR

Commitments

2,040,000 EUR

Funding Forecast 2021

Disbursements

0 EUR

Commitments

720,000 EUR

Classification

Channel of Delivery

Sectors

100.0%

43000 Other Multisector

MDGs

• Poverty

Focal Regions

National