About us

The Center for Public Integrity of Mozambique is a collective person in private law. It is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, independent organisation, endowed with legal status, and with administrative, financial and patrimonial autonomy. It is governed by its own statutes and by the other legislation in force in Mozambique.

The general objective of the CIP is to promote integrity, transparency, ethics and good governance in the public sphere, and to promote human rights in Mozambique.

The specific objectives of the CIP are:

▼To monitor and participate in public and private processes intended to promote transparency, integrity and ethics in the various spheres of Mozambican society, thus contributing to the social and economic development of our country;

▼To gather information and promote research into corruption, governance, integrity, transparency and the defence of human rights, using academic research and investigative journalism;

▼To design, implement and evaluate projects for social intervention in the above- mentioned area;

▼To promote, through debates and public campaigns, the development of more transparent practices in the management of public property at all levels of state intervention;

▼To assist and facilitate civil society participation in campaigns to promote ethics and transparency in Mozambique and abroad, through capacity building, raising awareness, direct assistance, training in investigative journalism and human rights, and monitoring the management of public property;

▼Breed opposition to corrupting practices within the public and private sectors, using to this end investigative journalism and the mass media. CIP may also set up a periodical publication for this purpose, and publish dossiers and studies in the form of books and/or hire legal representation in the event of needing defence: to provide consultancy services in the above mentioned area. ▄