NANA - Ass. de Apoio ao Des. Comunitário A NANA (Associação de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento) is a nonprofit, Mozambican Civil Society Organization (CSO), of a social character,headquartered in the city of Mocuba, founded in 1998. In 2021 NANA approved its Strategic Plan for 2021-2025, with actionsat the provincial level, performing at the district of Quelimane, Mocuba, Lugela, Alto Molócué, Namarroi, Mocubela, Ile, Gurué, Mulumbo e Milange, in the Province of  Zambezia. In the SP have the following pillars:  (i) Citizenship and inclusive governance, (ii) Access andcontrol f agriculture and Natural Resources, (iii) Access and control of the Health and Education Services and (iv) Institutional development.
A NANA, is a valid civil society actor, that is contributing to the change of atitude and behavior that is detrimento tothe local development. For that, it believe that the center of its intervention might be the human right based approach, a communication strategy for social and behavior change , a tranformative education and finally in a gender based approach.
Since 2017, NANA is working with Oxfam in the field of education, in Mozambique is implementing the education project namely Education for Active Citizenship (EfAC), which aims to contribute so that citizens of both sexes are empoweredthrough a transformative (formal and non-formal) and quality education and that civil society is able to advocate for better financing for the education sector and the efficient and transparent use of the resources allocated to this sector.
Within thiscurrent period (2023-2024) within the framework of the Oxfam SAF CLUSTER Strategy, NANA will contribute to the SAF Cluster Strategy Gender Justice Programme Strategy (2021-2025) in its Pathway 5:The Goal; of the Gender Justice Programme Strategy is that:Diverse women, girls, and marginalised groups fully realise their rights, exercise their leadership, and live a life free from violence, discrimination, and poverty The Pathway 5 expects that Girls andother Vulnerable Children attain equitable and transformative education opportunities in terms of enrolment, participation, retention and completion at all levels.
NANA is going to contribute to: (I) We intend to continue investing in REFLECT approach to encourage parents and guardians to keep girls and other vulnerable children in school and to ensure that sustainable income generation activities are carried out to assist parents to finance access to school to girls and boys;
School Councils will also be used at community level to ensure parents to let their kids go to school and fight to keep them in school; In School Council the project will support the work that mother counsellor do to prevent child and forced marriage as well.

Apart from that, its intervention will also promote responsible and transparent policies to improve public services and increase food security - Empowering citizens and civil society to strengthen their voices and demand , better education services for those in power, as well as fair allocation and transparent use of funds from the education sector in Mozambique; (II) Transform social norms so that young women can flourish - contributing tothe access and retention of students, mainly girls in the formal and alternative education system, through the active participationof their parents and the local government; raising awareness among parents and guardians, traditional local authorities and teachers about girls' rights in the context of gender justice; piloting gender-sensitive education models and curricular practices that canbe used as evidence to influence the project's advocacy work.