The Embassy of Switzerland in Mozambique, as part of its bilateral cooperation in the area of governance, has launched a public tender to select one or more partners to develop and implement the project ‘Local Governance of Land & Natural Resources (LAGO)’ in Mozambique.

The project aims to implement the new Land Policy (2022) to strengthen the efforts of local communities to register their land and integrate it into district land registry systems. The first phase of this project is scheduled to begin in June 2025 and will run for four years, until May 2029.

This initiative will establish an accessible and functional district spatial data infrastructure for the production, sharing, publication, and use of geospatial data. At the same time, the project will collaborate with local authorities, communities, and justice actors to assert land rights and effectively utilize the benefits of natural resource exploitation. Mozambican law requires the state to redistribute a specific percentage of tax revenues from resource exploitation to local communities (20% for forest and wildlife resources and 2.75% for mineral resources).

Interested organizations are invited to express their interest by emailing the Embassy of Switzerland in Mozambique at maputo.tender@eda.admin.ch to request the relevant ‘Tender Document’.

Technical and financial proposals must be submitted in English by email no later than 17 January 2025.