Last Friday morning I had just emerged from a meeting with Minister Paulo Ivo Garrido, who I have posted a blog about previously. Minister Garrido was confirmed as the Minister for Health of Mozambique for a second term following the inauguration …
In March this year, it will be two years since DFID took on the focal partner role for health in Mozambique, and it will be time for the UK to hand over the baton to the Netherlands. The handover process …
Each year the performance of the health sector in Mozambique is measured through a process known as the annual joint evaluation. I have provided some detail on this process in a previous blog, as well as giving a snap shot …
In my blog on Esther Bouma, who was the queen of health sector coordination here in Mozambique, I gave some background information on what coordinating donor and development partner inputs to health in Mozambique involves. I also lamented the fact …
The streets of Maputo were very quiet last Thursday, but there was a notable presence of police on strategic street corners, and the distant sound of celebrations could be heard. A national holiday had been declared to celebrate the inauguration …
The DFID office in Mozambique is quiet now, with many people already on leave. However, we still have a couple of important meetings before the end of the year, discussing financial management and planning for the annual review of the …
Maputo was hit by edge of a tropical storm last night, with high winds, thunder, lightening and rain, and I thought it might put a damper on the events organised to mark World AIDS Day today. I was very cautious …
DFID Mozambique has been thinking about how to address the key challenges set out in DFID’s White Paper ‘Building our Common Future’, which was published in July this year. Rita Zacarias, pictured here holding the cover of the soon to …
I am writing this at the end of four intensive days of discussion on building regional and national ‘Observatories’ to track the status and progress on strengthening the health workforce in Africa. The meeting of the African Regional Health Workforce …
In my last blog post, on coordination of work in the health sector in Mozambique, I mentioned evidence emerging from a recent survey (the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey) that shows some of the significant improvements that Mozambique has achieved over …
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