MozTrabalha (Phase 2)

Project Summary MozTrabalha Phase 2 project is contributing towards the creation of productive employment and decent working conditions for Mozambican women and men, particularly youth and those living in poverty. MozTrabalha is promoting employment and decent work for Mozambican women and men living in poverty, using a systems approach with a focus on structural transformation and just transitions. Expanding on the successes achieved and support provided to national constituents in the course of MozTrabalha Phase 1 (2016 – 2022), the International Labour Organization (ILO), with funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), is implementing a project with even greater scale and sustainability of its impacts, that improves on the design of the previous project and learns lessons from its implementation. Using an adaptive project setup, which is informed by a dedicated and detailed inception phase, the project is also promoting employment and decent work through work across three main outcome areas, which are held together by the systems approach as listed below; Outcome 1 (national): The project is supporting the Government and social partners to design and implement better and more supportive economic and sectoral policies, as well as labour market institutions, with the aim to advance employment through structural transformation in key sectors of the economy. Outcome 2 (sectoral): In two selected sectors, and with a geographic focus in Northern Mozambique, the project is supporting employment outcomes for young women and men living in poverty, by promoting access to sustainable employment opportunities in enterprises and economic units that transition to higher productivity and carbon-neutral production. Outcome 3 (cross-cutting): To enable sustainable and lasting results at both the national and sectoral levels, the project is capacitating ILO’s tripartite constituents as well as relevant stakeholders at national, provincial, and local levels to allow them to better address key constraints and bottlenecks for decent and pro-poor employment creation through systemic and sustainable enterprise development and policy interventions. The project is being implemented over 5 years (60 months), from 2022 – 2027, broken down into two phases: 1. The Inception phase: In the first nine months, the project is undertaking a wide set of preliminary, analytical and consultative tasks in order to ensure that the project team is fully established and trained, and that the concrete sectors and provinces of intervention, as well as the final Theory of Change and intervention logic are determined in detail. This is involving Market Systems Analyses that is assessing systemic employment and decent work challenges and bottlenecks as well as opportunities; build relationships with, and define the respective roles of, key stakeholders and potential partners; and design the range of interventions for the implementation phase. This phase is also completing a full, targeted design and theory of change of the project implementation phase in close consultation with national and provincial constituents and stakeholders – clearly setting out how the ILO can best achieve optimal results in line with the project strategy and objectives. 2. The Implementation phase: In the following 52 months, the project will build on the inception phase to implement the range of interventions to create sustainable and systemic change towards the promotion of employment and decent work for Mozambican women and men living in poverty, particularly. This phase will have targeted, systemic interventions at the national level, as well as in the country’s Northern Provinces and the Beira corridor that are addressing key policy and regulatory constraints, support more effective engagement from the ILO’s tripartite constituents and other stakeholders, as well as ensuring clear employment outcomes on the ground. The project office is based in M

Project symbol

MOZ/22/01/SWE

Admin unit

CO-Lusaka

Start date

01/08/2022

End date

31/07/2027

Total allocation

10452432

Total expenditure

Status

Active

7664083

Development Partners

Sweden, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Country/Countries

Mozambique

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work
Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions