Governação dos recursos naturais em Moçambique: estudo da implementação da iniciativa de transparência na indústria extractiva (2009 – 2020)

Abstract

The Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a governance tool that seeks to address the institutional problems that many countries rich in natural resources suffer from, thereby avoiding or reducing the risks of the “resource curse”. With the discovery of large quantities of natural resources in recent decades, Mozambique joined the EITI in 2009. However, the impact of the implementation of the initiative on improving natural resource governance remains little explored in the literature. This study seeks to understand the contribution of the EITI to transparency and accountability in natural resource governance in Mozambique, through a longitudinal perspective covering the time horizon from 2009 to 2020. The data that inform the analysis were collected through triangulation of different techniques, including bibliographic research, documentary research and semi-structured interviews. The study showed that the implementation of the EITI has enabled the integration of a traditionally excluded actor in the debate on the extractive industry – civil society, through the multi-stakeholder group, although this has not yet managed to become a space for effective participation and discussion of the most pressing issues in the extractive sector. It was concluded that, although the EITI has contributed to transparency through the dissemination of relevant information on the extractive industry and has inspired certain administrative reforms, its potential for improving the governance of natural resources remains underexploited(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)