Waging Peace:  Mozambique

Encouraging Reconciliation and Sustainable Development

In 1998, the government of Mozambique asked that the Carter Center's Global Development Initiative (1993-2006) support a national consensus-building initiative known as the Agenda 2025 National Vision and National Development Strategy Process. The process brought together Mozambicans from across the social and political spectrum to develop a shared, long-term vision and strategy for the future development of their country. The Agenda 2025 process assisted Mozambique to identify policy options to inform the country's Poverty Reduction Strategy, a short-term action plan required for foreign loans and grant aid from the international donor community.

The Agenda 2025 vision and strategy process was completed in July 2003, and the final agenda was publicly disseminated and then unanimously approved by Parliament in December 2003.

Monitoring Elections

2003 Municipal Elections
Following assessment trips in March and October 2003 during which election authorities, political parties, and local observer groups welcomed the Center's presence, The Carter Center began a long-term electoral assistance project in Mozambique in October 2003.

The Center found Mozambique's second municipal elections in November 2003 generally well-conducted and peaceful, but reports of less than 30 percent voter turnout were of concern. Read full text >

Election Reports

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