The revenues that the Mozambican state channels to communities living in areas where forest and mineral resources are exploited are “negligible”, and their delivery by the executive has been “unpredictable”, a study says.

The study, published by Lusa on Saturday, was commissioned by the Civil Society Learning and Training Centre (CESC), a Mozambican civil society organisation, and analyses the management of forestry and mining revenues channelled to communities in Niassa, Nampula and Zambézia provinces.

“The financial resources transferred to the communities are minimal, and [far] from having a significant impact on the lives of the communities,” the analysis cited by Lusa says.

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