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Mozambican Civil Society Within: Evaluation, Challenges, Opportunities and Action
4.2 RECOMMENDATIONS
The CSO study’s general recommendations arising from group discussions during the national
workshop can be summarized in five main points:
4.2.1 General Recommendations
The general recommendations of the CSI study arising from group discussions during the
national workshop can be summarized in five main points:
1. The representatives of Mozambican civil society present in the workshop recognized
the need to establish a code of conduct for civil society that enables it to promote
democracy and transparency in its actions;
2. They recommended consolidation of the existing spaces and mechanisms for
coordinating and financing the interventions of CSOs at all levels of society;
3. They recommended building CSO technical and knowledge capacity to improve their
use of policies and laws and the spaces already provided by the state, the private sector
and the international community and to improve their actions with communities;
4. They recommended improving CSO knowledge, promoting continuous research that
could influence and better inform their actions, based on evidence;
5. They recommended that a periodic Civil Society Index study be carried out.
4.2.2 Specific Recommendations for Each Dimension
Given the limited time available the workshop participants agreed that concrete
recommendations should be prepared later by the technical group and other interested parties.
Consequently, the CSI Coordination Team and the workshop facilitators met to draft relevant
and more opportune recommendations.
The recommendations were organized by study dimension in order to visualize how to improve
the index of each one. The set of recommendations makes it possible to contribute to improving
the participation and involvement of civil society in the country’s social and economic change
processes.
Civil Society Index, Mozambique 2007
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