Counterpart CDD Finnida SOMO Going Publ. The Project will be implemented under the leadership and overall responsibility of Oxfam in Mozambique, through CDD. The project will be implemented over a period of 15 months (October 2021 – December 2022). Oxfam will designate a Project Lead to overseethe overall project execution. Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) will be signed between Oxfam and CDD and will establish the roles and responsibilities of each entity for the implementation of relevant activities. A Project Steering Committee will be established that will be responsible for (i) providing overall policy guidance and decision-making on all issues relating to the Project; (ii) facilitating coordination among the relevant agencies and stakeholders; (iii) reviewing and approving annual work and expenditure plans, and (iv) assessing risks of strategic impact and identifying solutions. The Steering Committee will meet four time a year (quarterly) and hold extraordinary meetings when necessary. The inception plan will be developed and discussed amongst stakeholders before project effectiveness and integrated into the project implementation manual. The inception plan will be designed to engage all project stakeholders in a dialogue and provide them with a platform for interaction, planning, and decision-making.

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) is a Democracy, Governance and Human Rights Mozambican civil society organization. As a chapter of the Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN), CDD has led the efforts for the establishment and strengthening of Mozambique Network of Human Rights Defenders since November 2019. Since 2020, the organization has jointly coordinated the APIE – the National PlatformExtractive Industries and Natural Resources. CDD also holds the chairmanship of the Mozambique Budget Group (FMO), the national platform on budget monitoring, public finance transparency and accountability. CDD is also catalyzing the Platform for Dialogue on Business, Security and Human Rights for Cabo Delgado, the natural gas rich province facing violent extremism. CDD was selected for its convening power and CSO’s empowerment, particularly youth centring organizations, CBOs and social movements to utilize the thinking and working politically (TWP) model, social relations, strategic links to leverage access to duty bearers without comprising democratic and accountability principles. Expecting Add values engaging with civil society using a networking-led approach to catalyse citizen demands for greater tax justice and increased domestic resource mobilization from extractive industries as a key contributor for reducing poverty and inequality.

A Project Team (PT) will be established in Oxfam in Mozambique Office and comprise: (i) a Full-time Project Lead (ii) Project Officers experts in Tax and Fiscal issues; financial management, accounting, and IT / procurement on a part-time basis. The implementation of the project will also benefit from the presence and local connections of partners Unit based in Provinces. The Unit will provide complementary local information and facilitate the field missions and associated meetings with provincial and local authorities and stakeholders.

The experience accumulated by Oxfam in Mozambique through its previous interventions in thegovernance on extractive industries argues in favour of such intervention. Highlight for interventions through “Accountability through Active Citizenship: Improving Petroleum Governance in Mozambique program (from early 2014 through early 2018) and AGIR(2010-2020).

Project Beneficiaries. The Project’s direct institutional beneficiaries are implementing partners (CDD and CIP). In addition, Civil Society Organizations members of “National CSO platform for Natural Resources and Extractive industry”, technical staff,service providers and communities (at the local and central level) will directly benefit from technical assistance and training support.