SOURCES AND INFORMATION
1. Children and Armed Conflcit in Mozambique: Highlights
18 to 22 April 1999
The UN Special Representative visited Mozambique to assess the situation of children in the aftermath of the protracted armed conflict, which ended in 1992.
The Special Representative was impressed by Mozambique as a "success story". Several aspects of Mozambique's success should augur well for children: the process of national reconciliation; the building of a genuine multi-party democratic practice; a strong sense of national cohesion; and an impressive rate of economic growth in recent years.
The Special Representative noted several important lessons to be learned from the Mozambican experience:
1. Including the protection and welfare of children on peace agendas. Children's protection and welfare were not on the peace agenda in Mozambique and, as a result, no special framework or arrangements were made for their benefit and protection in the post-conflict phase.
2. weakened national institutions, which lacked the resources and the capacity to respond effectively to this overwhelming challenge;
3. The challenge of demining. Mozambique has embarked on a serious programme of demining, but present technology is utterly inadequate for the task. One deminer can clear only approximately 50 square metres per day. More and urgent support must be given to current efforts to develop more efficient technology;
2. Address
to UN by H.E. JOAQUIM ALBERTO CHISSANO, President of the Republic of Mozambique,
Chairperson of the African Union
given on 9/03- note polite, constructive and positive way he speaks
1. Eradication of Absolute Poverty (PARPA), the Mozambican Poverty Reduction Strategy
2. NEPAD, adopted at the Lusaka Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), in July 2001, as an African led, owned and managed initiative, is a serious commitment to addressing the challenges before the continent in order to meet the aspirations of its people.
3. Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).
4. Implementation of infrastructure high priority projects in energy, transport, water and sanitation, and information and technology (ICT) identified under the revised NEPAD Infrastructure Short-Term Action Plan (STAP), as well as progress in developing Medium to Long-Term Infrastructure Action Plan.
5. speed up the implementation of programmes in the areas of health and education.
6. NEPAD incorporates an African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) whose objective is to foster the adoption of policies, standards and practices leading to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated regional and continental integration
3. M's Report to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, May 2002
Reports the major concerns of M and what M wants to do about them
4. Disenfranchisement, Marginalization, of African Nations
1. Elimination of Racial Discimination, 1993
2. Gender, Governance and Conflicts in Africa, 2002
3. RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION
4. Overcoming Africa's Marginalization, 2001
A second index I want to review with you is our Economic Policy Stance Index. It measures the appropriateness of government fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy. Among other things we look at budget balances, taxation, monetary growth and interest rates. Again we score from one to ten, based upon the continent’s best performers. Data allow for scoring 26 countries. Mozambique has the top score, bolstered by strong performance across the board.
NEPAD’s long-term significance lies less in the listing of projects and programmes for donor funding. The value added of the Initiative is twofold: first, in the paradigm shift that it offers in putting the responsibility for Africa’s future first and foremost with African leaders and their people; and second, in envisaging a transformation of the continent’s development relations with its external partners. In other words, it provides a framework for Africa’s effective integration into the global economy and for overcoming Africa’s marginalization.
5. M is on list of Least Developed Countries
6. UNIDO
The LDC-III Programme of Action (PoA) calls the initiatives to arrest the marginalization of LDCs an “ethical imperative”. It outlines a broad range of measures to be taken by the developed nations and the LDCs themselves in the form of a framework for partnership and seven specific commitments: (1) Fostering a people centered policy framework; (2) Good governance at the national and international levels; (3) Building human and institutional capacities; (4) Building productive capacities to make globalization work for the least developed countries; (5) Enhancing the role of trade and development; (6) Reducing vulnerability and protecting the environment and (7) Mobilizing financial Resources.
UNIDO’s contribution to the follow-up of LDC-III concentrated on commitments (4) and (5).
With respect to Building productive capacities and enhancing the role of trade, UNIDO’s large-scale programme, Enabling LDCs to participate in International Trade was formally presented at LDC III at the Thematic Session on International Trade, Commodities and (FfD) Services and further elaborated at the Financing for Development Conference at Monterrey. This initiative aims to facilitate LDC trade participation and enhance export competitiveness through the upgrading of quality and accreditation infrastructure and productive capacities, primarily in sectors of high export potential, such as food products, textiles and leather. A Trust Fund open to Donors’ contributions has been established by UNIDO in order to finance the implementation of this initiative.
7. Overview of M: current news, economy, environment, health and tech.
If you'd like to have some overheads made of some of these very explicit charts, copy them and submit to me. It would be impressive if you could use one or two in your speeches.
8. Africa: Global Issues including Global Iniative for Africa