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Mozambican Civil Society Organizations
Global Philanthropists Circle
Southern African Visit, March 11-March 20, 2002
Eduardo Mondlane University Faculty of Engineering Telecenter Project "Bridging the Gap"
The Bridging the Gap Project mission is to improve the opportunities in life of rural children of Mozambique using the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to improve the quality of primary education as a fundamental enable of basic innovative, productive and human developmental capabilities. Thus the main objectives of the Project are
- Contribute to the national capacity of generating internet standards-based contents mainly for education purposes
- Contribute to widening the access to internet and ICT utilities
- Contribute to widening the population with basic knowledge of ICT's
The Bridging the Gap Project aims at creating a closed network of educational services and products dedicated to the Upper Primary Education in public schools nationwide. The network will serve both teachers and students of the 6th and 7th grades of the National Education System.
With the Bridging the Gap Project support and funding there will be created discipline-specific web resources to provide teachers with standards-based internet contents for the classroom and provide teachers with online training materials for professional development.
Contact: Gabriel Luis Amos, Dean
Av. De Moçambique KM 1,5
P.O. Box 257
Maputo, Mozambique
Tel: +258 1 475315
Mobile: 082 304338
Email: gabriel_l_amos@hotmail.com
and gabriel@amos.uem.mz
Please contact Foundation for Community Development if you are interested in this project (See Below).
Foundation for Community Development
The Foundation for Community Development (FDC) started in 1990 as the Association for the Development of the Community (ADC). Its members shared the conviction that the efforts for the development of the community should be sustained from within Mozambican society. On the basis of discussions with communities from all over the country, the association was transformed in June 1994 into the Foundation for the Development of the Community (FDC). It was the first institution of its kind in Mozambique, with assets aimed at generating resources to finance community development initiatives. With Graça Machel as its Chairperson, and many key leaders such as Minister Luísa Diogo on their board of directors, the FDC is a non-profit, private institution seeking to establish partnerships in order to strengthen the capacity of disadvantaged communities, with the objective of overcoming poverty and promoting social justice in Mozambique. The beneficiaries of their work are the grassroots communities that are poor and vulnerable. Women, children and the youth are a particular target group in view of their role, plight and degree of social vulnerability. All the other groups that are significantly affected by the phenomenon of social exclusion such as the old, the handicapped and the unemployed are also targeted. Their partners are Mozambican Non-governmental Organizations, Community-based Organizations, groups and individuals, co-operatives, local economic units, research institutions, researchers and donors with whom we share the same vision, interests and aspirations in favor of the most deprived communities. FDC is a partner organization of the Synergos Institute.
Contact: Carlos Fumo
1160-70 Eduardo Mondlane
Maputo, Mozambique
Tel: +258 (1) 430-430
Fax: +258 (1) 422-595
Email: cafumo57@hotmail.com
Web: www.synergos.org/partners/fdc.htm
National Art Museum of Mozambique
National Art Museum of Mozambique in Maputo was opened in 1989. It is located in the lively and densely populated district of Bairro Central. In this area various cultural institutions coexist with a large number of commercial establishments and apartment buildings in which families of mixed educational backgrounds and economic status are housed.
The Museum collection is comprised of sculptures, paintings, drawings, prints and mixed media. It houses an impressive collection of Mozambican painting and sculpture as well as relevant Shetani and Ujamaa styles from Makonde art works. The original works of Bertina Lopes, Celestino Tomás, Chichorro, Chissano, Estevão Mucavele, Macamo, Malangatana, Naguib, Samate, Victor Sousa and many others are on permanent display as well as a variety of individual exhibitions that change periodically. The building also contains a workshop where you can see artists at work.
www.natmus.cul.na/samp/mozambique/moz3.htm
National Song & Dance Company of Mozambique
National Song & Dance Company of Mozambique, renowned for its luminous costumes, technical polish and seemingly inexhaustible energy, performs a diverse repertoire with "warmth, humor and stylishness" (New York Times). Under the direction of dancer/choreographer David Abilio since its founding in 1979, the 25-member company presents more than 300 performances each year, featuring works based on traditional Mozambican folk styles as well as original allegorical choreography. "The program was exhilarating in the caliber of performing and the exquisite costumes and stage designs," enthused the New York Times in a recent review. "But the greatest fascination lay in the ways age-old traditional dance and music were filtered through a modern sensibility to produce an extraordinarily vital and subtle new art."
MBEU Women's Association
MBEU is an association for advancing women's economic and socio-cultural
development. The organization works to help women in their communities to improve their living conditions, provides informal education, income generating training and implements small projects for this purpose.
Contact: Foundation for Community Development (See above)
Reencontro
The Mozambican Association for Support of Orphaned Children whose parents died of HIV/AIDS, REENCONTRO, is a non-profit organization started in 1999 by a group of women who had once aspired to join the Franciscan Sisters under the order of "Missionaries of Mary" as well as other women of goodwill. In the face of the tragedy of AIDS that has left many children orphaned, some of the care of one parent only, others with an uncle or grandparent, others left to their own fate, these women decided to join efforts to support these children. The association has already approved its Statutes, elected a Board and established a head office.
The main objective of REENCONTRO is to alleviate the plight of the orphans and to promote their social as well as economic development. They now have 32 volunteer members, one full-time nuse (volunteer), one part-time nurse (volunteer) and four trained activists. They have 178 children to look after.
Contact: Foundation for Community Development (See above)
The Transfrontier Conservation Areas Project
The concept of Transfrontier Conservation Areas has received widespread attention over the past decade, with about 140 TFCAs now recognized world-wide. Originally, TFCAs were intended to safeguard ecosystems and key biodiversity patters bisected by national borders. TFCA concepts have been expanded in Mozambique to relate to areas shared by two or more countries under an ecosystem-wide management regime, incorporating both sustainable use zones and core areas of globally or regionally significant diversity.
The Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCA) Project is an ecosystems-based, multiple land use project, implemented through the Directorate of Forestry and Wildlife (DNFFB) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Mozambique, with assistance from the Global Environment facility (GEF), through the World Bank. The present five-year project phase (1997-2002) is the first of several planned periods of project intervention.
The TFCA Project has been designed to assist the Government of Mozambique in the rehabilitation, development and sustainable utilization of its forest and wildlife resourses, integrating biodiversity conservation with economic development. It is working towards these objectives through:
- Trans-national linkages-collaborating and cooperating with neighboring countries South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland in the identification of TFCA areas
- Habitat and wildlife management-developing national and transnational guidelines for rehabilitation and management of national resources within protected areas, and encouraging operational, economic and other partnerships among the private sector, local communities, NGOs and the Government
- Local communities-developing frameworks and strategies whereby local communities may participate in, and benefit from, the management and sustainable use of natural resources within TFCAs
- Capacity building-primarily of DNFFB, including its provincial offices, staff and planning capabilities, and the funding of a Geographical Information System (GIS) unit.
Contact: Fernando Sumbana Júnior, Minister of Tourism
Av. 25 de Setembro, 1018
Maputo
Mozambique
Tel: +258 1 310-755 and +258 1 420-979
Fax: +258 1 306-212
Email: fsumbana@turismo.imoz.com
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