Republic of Mozambique Agriculture Public Expenditure Review

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and Trade (MIC); and local governments in country for excellent collaboration, including organization of the various missions and meetings, and provision of the information and inputs requested. Finally, the team would like to thank all the contacts in the various public ministries, departments, agencies, non-governmental agencies, and donor organizations who have contributed to and otherwise supported the development of this review. Special appreciation is conveyed to the counterpart Technical Team of this study, namely: from MASA, the former director of DPCI, Ilidio Massinga, for his leadership during the conceptual stage; DPCI's current director, Delfim Vilissa, as well as Acubar Batista (Minister's advisor) and Fatima Bibi. From MITADER, the Director of Rural Development/MITADER Olegário Banze and his team members, and the FNDS Administrator, Júlio Costa and his team, for their useful comments and contributions, and for their support during consultations and completion. Appreciation is extended to Júlio Filimone from MEF, Virgilio António from MOPHRH, Alberto Macia from MITADER, Tomé Sualei from MIC, Fernando Momade and Castilho Bande from MIMAIP and other staff members of the above listed ministries who provided information/inputs for the elaboration of this study. Appreciation is also expressed to officials from other key stakeholder groups who collaborated in providing useful information, feedback and insights on the results of this study. These stakeholder groups included the other related Government Ministries (especially the Ministry of Land, Environmental, and Rural Development/MITADER; the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF); the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIC); the Ministry the Sea, Interior Water and Fisheries (MMAIP); and the Ministry of Public Works, Housing, and Water Resources); the Authorities and other stakeholders from three Provinces (Gaza, Manica and Nampula) who were consulted; the Technical officers from the development partner agricultural working group (Agriculture and Rural Economic Development-AGRED); and representatives from the private sector, civil society, and academia. iii Appreciation is expressed to: (i) the Department of International Development of the United Kingdom (DFID), for providing funding support and technical advice throughout the study (together with the complementary study, "Strategy for Expanding the Role of the Private Sector in Transforming the Agrarian Sector"), under the leadership of Shahnila Azher (Team Leader) Catriona Cluna, and Sérgio Dista; (ii) FAO for making available valuable human resources and technical backstopping, in particular Alberta Mascaretti (Chief, Africa Region) and Olman Serrano (Country Representative); and (iii) AGRA, through it's country representative, Paolo Mole, for its continued collaboration and for providing useful insights.