1. Introduction
2. Measuring Poverty
2.1. Consumption-based poverty
2.2. Deprivations-based poverty
2.3. Comparison of consumption and
     deprivations-based poverty
3. Analysis by deprivation
3.1. Severe education deprivation
3.2. Severe nutrition deprivation
3.3. Severe water deprivation
3.4. Severe sanitation deprivation
3.5. Severe health deprivation
3.6. Severe shelter deprivation
3.7. Severe information deprivation
4. Conclusions
References
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1. Introduction
2. Transition to peace,democracy
      and market economy
2.1. Demographic trends
2.2. Economic growth and
     macroeconomic stability
2.3. Millennium Development Goals
2.4. Decentralisation
3. Policy and institutional analysis
3.1. Policy and planning mechanisms
3.2. Monitoring and evaluation
3.3. Legal framework
4. External development assistance
4.1. Aid coordination
4.2. Implications for children
5. Conclusions
References
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1. Introduction
2. Health and nutrition
2.1. Child survival
2.2. Child nutrition
2.3. Maternal survival, health and
     nutrition
2.4. Childhood illnesses
2.5. Malaria
2.6. Acute respiratory infection
2.7. Diarrhoeal diseases
2.8. Cholera
2.9. Vaccine-preventable diseases and
     immunisation
2.10. HIV and AIDS
2.11. Sector financing and
     budget allocations
3. Water and sanitation
3.1. Institutional framework
3.2. The National Rural Water Supply
     and Sanitation Programme
3.3. Water supply
3.4. Sanitation
3.5. Sustainability of WASH
     infrastructures
3.6. Water and sanitation in schools
3.7. Sector financing and
     budget allocations
4. Conclusions
References
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1. Introduction
2. The current situation and recent
      trends in education
2.1. The education system
      in Mozambique
2.2. Children in school
2.3. Children out of school
2.4. Delays in starting education
2.5. Primary school completion and
     transition to secondary education
2.6. Progression through grades
2.7. Equity in education
2.8. Literacy
2.9. Tertiary education
3. Barriers to participation
      in education
3.1. Direct costs in education
3.2. Opportunity costs to communities
3.3. Impact of traditions and
      culture on the right to education
3.4. Impact of violence and
      abuse in schools
3.5. Educational quality
3.6. School infrastructure
3.7. Availability of teachers
3.8. Pre-service and in-service
      teacher training
3.9. School management
3.10. Lack of focus on school health
3.11. Impact of language on
      educational outcomes
4. Further issues in the
      education sector
4.1. Life skills strategy to combat AIDS
4.2. Children’s participation
4.3. Education for children with
      special needs
4.4. Sector financing and
      budget allocations
4.5. External financing
4.6. Direct Support to
      Schools Programme
5. Conclusions
References
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1. Introduction
2. Legislative and policy reform
3. Violence, abuse andexploitation
3.1. Violence and sexual abuse
      in schools
3.2. Domestic violence
3.3. Commercial sexual exploitation
      and abuse
3.4. Child trafficking and
      migration
3.5. Child labour
3.6. Child marriage
4. Children and the justice sector
4.1. Children’s access to
      property and inheritance
4.2. Birth registration
4.3. Children with disabilities
4.4. Alternative care mechanisms
4.5. Orphaned, vulnerable and
      other marginalised children
4.6. Basic social protection
4.7. Poverty certificates
4.8. Capacity analysis
4.9. Civil society partnerships
4.10. Sector financing and
      budget allocations
5. Conclusions
References
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1. Introduction
2. Gender
2.1. Gender aspects of poverty
      in Mozambique
2.2. Gender development and
      gender empowerment
2.3. Gender disparities
2.4. Gender issues in education
2.5. Violence, abuse and
      exploitation
2.6. Lineage systems
2.7. HIV and gender
2.8. Conclusions
3. Geographical disparities
3.1. Disparities in budgetary
      allocations
3.2. Disparities in health
3.3. Disparities in access to
      education
3.4. Disparities in relation to
      child protection
3.5. Conclusions
4. HIV and AIDS
4.1. Profile of the HIV epidemic
      in Mozambique
4.2. Priority actions for children in
      relation to HIV and AIDS
4.3. P1 – Primary prevention
4.4. P2 – Prevention of mother-to-child
      transmission of HIV
4.5. P3 – Paediatric AIDS
4.6. P4 – Protecting orphans and
      vulnerable children affected by AIDS
4.7. Nutrition and HIV
4.8. Conclusions
5. Environmental issues and
      climate change
5.1. Environmental issues
      in Mozambique
5.2. Sustainable development
      in Mozambique
5.3. Impact of environmental
      degradationand emergencies on
      children in Mozambique
5.4. The institutional context
5.5. Conclusions
6. Communication for Development
6.1. Mass media development
      in Mozambique
6.2. The changing role of the media:
      communication for development and
      community mobilisation
6.3. Promising initiatives in
      Mozambican media
6.4. Child-friendly networks
      and partnerships
6.5. Information deprivation
6.6. Conclusions
References
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Acknowledgements
Foreword
Executive Summary
List of Figures
List of Tables
Bibliography
Acronyms
Map of Mozambique
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