Our Work

Agriculture in Mozambique employs nearly 80 percent of the active labor force (mostly women) and contributes to a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product. SPEED is enhancing the competitiveness of Mozambique’s agriculture sector through policy, legal and regulatory reforms and by building institutional capacity

Mozambique has a unique geography with rich biodiversity with the potential for profitable nature-based tourism and conservation enterprises. SPEED is expanding Mozambique’s institutional capacity to combat wildlife crimes, improving its management of biodiversity areas, and improving the enabling environment for conservation and climate finance. 

Mozambique stands to receive a windfall of natural resources revenue in the coming years, which can either catapult the country’s economic and social status to a more stable platform, or can steadily lead to deepened corruption.SPEED is improving Mozambique’s public financial management (PFM) through increased transparency and accountability with a dual approach.

Mozambique’s strained health system faces stagnant domestic resource mobilization, insufficient infrastructure, and a critical shortage of human resources. SPEED is promoting private sector participation in Mozambique’s health system by advancing the establishment of a Health Sector Public Private Dialogue (PPD) Platform to guide health sector policy reform.

he lack of access to reliable power is a binding constraint to broad-based economic growth in Mozambique. The country has set an ambitious target with its “Energy for All” initiative to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of connecting 100 percent of the population to electricity by 2030. 

Mozambique has been engaged in economic policy reform since its first democratic elections in 1994. With a pressing need to reform the country’s business policies and strengthen private sector participation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) initiated the Support Program for Economic and Enterprise Development (SPEED), implemented by DAI from 2010 to 2015.