Municipal Democracy and Local Development in Mozambique

The Forum for Africa Studies is engaged in the collaborative research programme Strengthening Municipal Democracy and Local Development: Social Sciences Research on Governance, Decentralization and Development. It aims to strengthen research anthropological and sociological research capacity at University of Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Mozambique. The programme is part of the Sweden-Mozambique bilateral research and research training Collaboration funded by Sida.

Three sandwich PhD students will be trained at Uppsala University, and three will be local PhDs will be trained at UEM. In addition, work will involve strengthening research environment, including the Virutal Seminar, regular study visits, workshops and the organisation of an international conference in 2022.

So far, two PhD students have been recruited: Book Sambo and Paulo Mahumane. The third is being recruited in Spring.

In May 2019, the dead of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the UEM led a delegation visiting Uppsala University in order to learn how PhD programmes are run at the Faculty of Arts at UU.