The Conceptual Model of the National Planning System was developed, that identifies the
current situation and how this should be in future;
Capacity building activities for technicians at central, provincial and district on matters related to
planning, management and budget execution were strengthened, with an emphasis on
operationalization of programmatic classifiers.
158. Although challenges prevail in supervision of government actions by the parliament, the
following steps were taken by the Government of Mozambique to ensure that Members of
Parliament individually and in their constituencies are informed of the policies and activities of
the Government:
Conditions created in order to carry out permanent work at constituency level to consult on
policies and activities of the Government;
Initiatives launched to connect Parliamentarians and Civil Society, such as the interparliamentary dialogue (e.g. collaboration between the Budget Monitoring Forum and the
Commission of Planning and Budget of the Assembly of the Republic, facilitated by civil
society), and
Designed a strengthened link between Parliament and Civil Society in the perspective of the
post-Busan aid effectiveness agenda.
159. In the management of public finances and tax reform, there were the following advances:
The Vision for Public Finance 2011-2025 was approved, a document that assesses the
reform efforts undertaken since 2002, its impact on the management of public
finances, and identifies processes, actions undertaken and indicators to be achieved
by 2025 based on four interim periods 2011-2014, 2015-2019, 2019-2024 and 2025.
160. In respect of activities for expansion of e-Sistafe, system users were trained:
45 training sessions were conducted for staff at national, territorial and provincial
levels (in 2010) and 33 (in 2011) in the following areas: i) Customs techniques ii)
Taxation techniques; iii) Administration and Management, and iv) Information
Technologies and Communication;
Design and development of the Management of State Assets module was initiated. In
2011 the functionality for preparing the inventory was developed, and by the end of
2012 the list of suppliers is expected to be completed, while it is expected that the
completion of all the features of this module will occur by the end of 2014;
The law establishing the legal framework for Public Enterprises, the Law on Public
Private Partnerships (Law No. 15/2011, of 10 August and Regulations by Decree No.
16/2012, of 4 June) was approved by the Assembly of the Republic;
The Public Debt Management strategy was completed and approved, and in 2011,
the Committees on Public Debt Management and Coordination and Project Selection
were created, to operationalize the Medium-Term Debt Strategy;
The attribution of Unique Tax Identification Numbers (NUIT) to individual and legal
persons was strengthened, with progressive over-achievement of annual targets.
According to information from the Tax Authority, the goals for taxpayer registration
were surpassed almost all years: Year 2007, 126.7%, Year 2008, 95.6%, Year 2009,
87.1%, Year 2010, 131,3%, and Year 2011, 108.7%. By the end of 2011, 1,632,859
Nuits had been allocated and by the end of 2012 the number was 2,005,575
taxpayers, exceeding the projected target of 2,000,000 for the year 2012;
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