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Mozambican Civil Society Within: Evaluation, Challenges, Opportunities and Action
3.2.6.2 Dialogue
Most respondents feel that dialogue is moderate. However, dialogue is not always an opportunity
for empowering civil society. According to some studies CSO capacity and action in some key
areas for stability and the mobilization of resources by the state, have aroused the government’s
interest because this gives it legitimacy in the eyes of its donors. However, the resources do
not always revert to the direct benefit of society (Negrão, 2003; Hodges and Tibana, 2005;
Francisco & Matter, 2007).
Francisco and Matter (2007) discuss specifically the issue of forms of participation, of dialogue
reduced to consultations that do not always produce results. Sometimes they function as
manipulation, on other occasions as psychological therapy and on others as a mere process of
consultation and information, without concrete results.
3.2.6.3 Cooperation and Support
This indicator analyses the level of support in the form of state resources for CSOs, as funds
and other services or programs that benefit them. The proposed score is 0.0 reflecting limited
support in terms of both the amount and the resources budgeted annually by the government
for CSOs, and also the coverage and diversity of organizations that really benefit.
3.2.7 Relations between Civil Society and the Private Sector
This sub-dimension describes the kind of relations that exist between civil society and the
private sector. It received a score of 0.8 meaning that relations are on the whole indifferent.
Table 3.2.9 summarizes the scores of the respective indicators.
TABLE 3.2.9: Indicators for Evaluating Relations with the Private Sector
Ref. # Indicators Score
2.7.1 Private Sector Attitude 1
2.7.2 Corporate Social Responsibility 0.5
2.7.3 Corporate Philanthropy 0
Civil Society Index, Mozambique 2007
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