Supporting the Policy Enabling Environment for Development
USAID SPEED

Supporting the Policy Enabling Environment for Development (USAID SPEED)

USAID SPEED is helping Mozambique create a better business environment to attract investment, expand markets, and reduce costs for businesses and citizens of Mozambique, thus contributing to broad-based and inclusive economic growth.  USAID SPEED is a follow-on to the SPEED+ project that started work in 2016, and over five years will partner with the Mozambican private sector, civil society organizations (CSO) and government to make it easier to do business in agriculture, trade/business environment, power, biodiversity, health and economic governance.  USAID SPEED is supported by the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

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News

17 April 2023

A NATUREZA DOS HOMENS E DOS ANIMAIS" film premiered to public

With funding from USAID Mozambique through the SPEED Project, Licínio de Azevedo, Gabriel Mondlane and Jorge Ferrão premiered yesterday (13) a new mini series entitled "A NATUREZA DOS HOMENS E DOS ANIMAIS". The fictional series of six episodes of twenty minutes each, exalts the importance of preserving conservation in Mozambique.

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16 February 2023

Law of laws: a transparent framework to produce laws in Mozambique

To date, Mozambique has not had an established or standardized legal framework for stakeholder consultation while creating laws or regulation. Typically, government ministries draft legislation themselves, asking for inputs from only a few key stakeholders. 

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30 January 2023

Saiba como a USAID ajudou a aliviar as dificuldades financeiras dos Fiscais em tempos

A eclosão da Pandemia da COVID 19 ameaçou a vida humana, teve impacto na economia e colocou em risco o emprego de muitos funcionários, incluindo os fiscais de conservação em Moçambique.

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Videos

12 July 2022

Launching ceremony of the Mozambique Biodiversity Information System

On May 23, 2022, the Government of Mozambique launched its first official national biodiversity information portal. Developed with support from USAID through the SPEED project, in collaboration with the wildlife Conservation Society, the Connect portal aggregates biodiversity information and data from various conventions related to biodiversity; it also provides information and data sets on our national Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) as well as the species and ecosystems present in Mozambique, including those that sit on the Red List of Threatened Species.

12 July 2022

Strenghening the Mozambican judiciary capacity to counter wildlife and marine crimes

With the objective of reducing poaching and wildlife crime in Mozambique, in 2019 USAID SPEED and others biodiversity partners in collaboration with the Supreme Court initiated the work to adapt the RRM for use in the court system, creating a bench book, a suite of associated training modules, and delivering training for Supreme Court and provincial judges. As result, In 2021, the Training and Support Manual for the Judges in matters of wildlife crime was launched.