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Mozambican Civil Society Within: Evaluation, Challenges, Opportunities and Action 3.3.5.2 Gender Equity Practices within Civil Society According to the replies to INOSC07, over 65% of the organizations have no written policy on equality of opportunity and/or equity in salary or work between men and women. Consequently, only a third of the organizations seem to have an internal gender equity policy on work opportunities. As the following figure shows, there have also been no denunciations of sexist practices in civil society. Figure 3.3.10: Frequency of Denunciation of Sexist Practices in Civil Society, Mozambique 2007 50 40 44.6% Percent 30 20 18.6% 20.5% 15.7% 10 0 0.6% Never Rarely Usually Always Other 3.3.5.3 CS Actions to Promote Gender Equity About 26% of respondents could not recall any example of public campaigns, actions or programs by civil society to promote gender equity during the previous year. Over 50% of the CSOs evaluate positively the current role of civil society in promoting gender equity in society as a whole. 3.3.6 Eradicating Poverty This sub-dimension describes the engagement of Mozambican actors and CSOs in promoting poverty reduction, and received a score of 2.0, a moderate level. Table 3.3.6 presents the score of the only indicator. 78 Civil Society Index, Mozambique 2007
Mozambican Civil Society Within: Evaluation, Challenges, Opportunities and Action Tabela 3.3.6: Indicadores de avaliação da redução da pobreza Ref. # Indicators Score 3.6.1 CS actions to eradicate poverty 2.0 3.3.6.1 CS Actions to Promote the Eradication of Poverty Interest in reducing poverty - in the broad sense of better living conditions, advocacy and improving well being - is one of the main factors in actions by Mozambican CSOs. Almost 60% of IOSC07 respondents could recall one, two or various examples of civil society public campaigns, actions or programmes dedicated to eradicating poverty during the previous year. However, it should be noted that 18% of respondents felt that civil society had “significant” action in reducing poverty, while a slightly higher percentage (22%) felt there was no example of visible action. This relative dissatisfaction can perhaps be explained by the widespread destitution in Mozambican society. The ordinary citizen has a clear idea of the hierarchy of his/her main problems. The main problems are economic, such as employment, poverty, hunger, wages and access to water (see figure 3.3.11). Figure 3.3.11 Hierarchy of the Country’s Main Problems by area Rural Urban Unemployment Poverty Hunger Salaries Access to water Access to hospitals Drought Economic Management Education Crime Transport Corruption AIDS Roads Illness 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Source: de Brito et al., 2005: 7 So even if CSOs tried or would like to do more to address people’s daily needs the fact that they think that not enough is being done, comes as no surprise. Given this assessment of the indicator under analysis, a score of 1.0 can be chosen, not so Civil Society Index, Mozambique 2007 79
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