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Figure 3.1.9: Absolute Inequality in the Distribution of CSO
Revenues and Human Resources
Figure 3.1.9a (Lorenz Curve for Revenue)
Gini Coefficient = 0.940)
Figure 3.1.9b (Lorenz Curve for Human
Resources)
Gini Coefficient = 0.739)
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Source: INE, 2006: 56, 57.
The INC07 does not have sufficient information to estimate the GINI Index for 2007, but the
situation is unlikely to have changed much over the last three years.
The issue of the relationship between human resources and volunteering was noted above
from another perspective. In this case, the relevant aspect to be considered, also related to
volunteering, is the heavy concentration of human resources. If they are assumed to be
predominantly paid resources then the vast majority of CSOs resort to precarious forms of
work and collaboration involving under-employment or volunteers. This is not intended to suggest
that volunteering in itself is precarious. What it means is that more stable, and probably more
efficient, resources are the best remunerated and are distributed very unequally.
3.1.6.3 Technological and Infrastructural Resources
The INOSC07 shows that a large percentage of respondents feel that organizational equipment
and infrastructure is “more or less adequate” (60%) or “adequate” (38%). This is surprising
especially when compared with knowledge about the basic resources available to them, including
energy, access to modern means (Internet and computer) and other resources (TV, transport
etc.).
There are few references to technological resources in the secondary literature. One exception
is, for example, the work by Fumo (s.d) who says that there are very few well established
organizations in Mozambique in the sense that they have reached a good level of operation,
with clearly defined objectives, with a structure, system and clearly allocated resources and
visible objectives.
Civil Society Index, Mozambique 2007
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