Executive summary

• The first regards the start up of the projects. It has not been evaluated.

• The second objective regards the assistance in the putting in place of a new police structure. This objective has been reached to a great extend. A new structure has been designed and amended and has been approved by the Mozambique government. It now has to be presented to Parliament.
• The third objective refers to the retraining of the current police force and the training of new recruits. This objective has been partially achieved: the retraining is on schedule, the training of new recruits has been designed but awaits implementation.
• The fourth objective regards a program for the internal operation of the Training Centre. The objective has been achieved.
• The fifth objective was to supply indispensable equipment for the Training Centre and for students. This objective has been achieved too.
• The sixth objective regards a proposal for the indispensable equipment of the PRM. The proposal has been provided.
• The last objective concerns the provision for the territorial infrastructure necessary for PRM operations, once project funding levels are deemed to be sufficient. This objective has been modestly achieved due to limited project funds.

The central recommendation is to continue the project and to design a follow up project. The evaluation formulated a number of conditions for success of a follow up program. They regard the ongoing explicit political support for the program, a substantial improvement of the judicial system and the further enhancement of the capacity for change in the Mozambican police force. They also regard the capacity to sustain the changes realised within the police and the development and implementation of a project to further increase the integrity of the police.

More detailed recommendations were made both for short-term adaptations in the running program and for the design and development of a follow up program.

3.1. Short term adaptation regard:

• intensify support for the station commanders and his staff of the retrained units;
• use Guardia Civil senior officers to inform superior officers regarding the contents of the training;
• continue the facilitating role of the Guardia Civil;
• develop a general model for the active support of retrained units for the follow up program;

• formulate clearer goals for training;
• increase the effectiveness of the parts of the program regarding violence against women and children and human rights violations;
• develop a plan to further strengthen the integrity of the PRM infrastructure;
• be aware of problems regarding the use of material in new or rehabilitated infrastructure.

• Increase the capacity for project management and design;
• Continue the retraining program and implement the field training support programme;
• Use the chance for community participation and develop and implement a Mozambican model to that extend;
• Support NGOs in learning from past experiences in working with the police in matters of human rights and violence against women and children;
• Begin the training of new recruits;
• Increase the capacity for senior management development;
• Implement the new structure and the plan to strengthen integrity;
• Carry out a feasibility study for the enforcement of environmental laws.

• Professor in Social Science;
• Commissary of police/Chief of Department, Organisation and Doctrine Police, Ministry of Justice and Security Buenos Aires Province, Argentine;
• Counsellor UNDP/UNOPS.

• Lecturer/Researcher in International Relations;
• Higher Institute of International Relations/Centre for Strategic and International Studies;
• Head of Department International Relations and Foreign Policy;
• Counsellor Ministry of Interior, Mozambique.