The Government of Finland will provide 5.4 million euros (equivalent to 368 million meticais) to finance human rights protection projects in the country.
The amount will be channeled to some civil society organizations that deal with human rights in Mozambique. This is the case of the Institute for Multiparty Democracy (IMD), the Civil Society Learning and Capacity Building Center (CESC), the Civil Society Support Mechanism (MASC) and the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD).
The executive director of IMD said that “the initiative will contribute to the improvement of assistance and support to the needy people in the country”.
Hermenegildo Mulhovo was speaking on Tuesday in Maputo at the launch of the Pro-Civic and Human Rights project, to be implemented over the next four years. “In the framework of Pro-Civic and Human Rights, the civil society will strengthen its capacity of intervention and mediation of conflicts in the next elections,” he explained, quoted by Radio Mozambique.
In turn, the Finnish ambassador in Mozambique, Anna-Kaisa Heikkinen, assured that the “initiative will boost the participation of citizens in the democratic space, especially in the North of the country”.