Social Accountability for Mozambique: an Experience Report from the Moamba District

Abstract

Empowering citizens in making Governments more accountable and transparent in the services they provide has gained more attention in the last few years both in the developing and in the developed world. At the basis of any such exercise, information and data collection activities play an important role. In this paper we report on a pilot we conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Education of Mozambique, the World Bank and the Maputo Living Lab to collect data about various procurement indicators of primary schools in the Moamba district of Mozambique. For this purpose we developed a data collection platform and a mobile application to conduct field work.