The Diplomat
The Spanish Cooperation and the Spanish judiciary participate in the financing and management of a European project to advise the Mozambican authorities in the fight against corruption.
The project, which was presented this past week in a virtual event attended by more than twenty Mozambican public and private institutions related to the justice sector and the fight against corruption, is jointly funded by the EU and the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation (AECID) and managed by the Agency itself together with the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Public Administration and Policies (FIIAPP), a public entity of the Spanish Cooperation.
During the event, in addition to presenting the planning of activities for this year, a team of Portuguese and Spanish specialists from the Superior Council of the Portuguese Judicial Magistracy, the Spanish Ministry of Justice and the General Council of the Judiciary was formed.
On the other hand, the participants made progress in the development of coordination, management and information exchange mechanisms with the creation of the steering committee, with a political and strategic profile, and the coordination committee, with a technical profile. The Spanish magistrate Óscar Rey was also introduced as head of component one, Strengthening Judicial Institutions, from which he will work closely with the Mozambican judicial institutions in Maputo.
The event was attended by Mozambican institutions such as the Supreme Court, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, the Cabinet for Combating Corruption, the Ministry of Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs, the National Criminal Investigation Service and the Mozambican Association of Judges. Representatives of the Delegation of the European Union in Mozambique, the Cabinet of the National Councilor for the cooperation between Mozambique and the European Union, the Councils of the Magistracy of Spain and Portugal and the Ministries of Justice of Spain and Portugal also attended.
