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INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE CIÊNCIAS E EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA

DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS E HUMANAS

CURSO DE LICENCIATURA ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA

Challenges faced by public administrators in Mozambique

Student name: Luisa Sifónia Silvestre Zaqueu

Username: lzaqueu@gmail.com

Maxixe, May of 2022

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INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE CIÊNCIAS E EDUCAÇÃO A DISTÂNCIA

DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS SOCIAIS E HUMANAS

CURSO DE LICENCIATURA ADMINISTRAÇÃO PÚBLICA

Challenges faced by public administrators in Mozambique

Fieldwork to be submitted to the

Coordination of the Degree Course in
Public Administration of ISCED.

Student name: Luisa Sifónia Silvestre Zaqueu

Username: lzaqueu@gmail.com

Maxixe, May of 2022

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Índice
1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 3
1.1. Objectives of the fieldwork ...................................................................................................... 3
1.2. Methodology............................................................................................................................. 3
2. Challenges faced by public administrators in Mozambique ........................................................ 4
3. Conclusion ................................................................................................................................... 6
4. References ................................................................................................................................... 7
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1. Introduction

In this present fieldwork I am going to write an essay the main challenges faced by public
administrators in Mozambique. Public Administration consists of the activities undertaken by the
Government to look after its people or to manage its affairs. The concept of Public
Administration seems pertinent to understand the meaning of the terms “public” and
“administration” separately.

The word “public” stands for the people of a definite territory or state. As the will of the people
of a state is represented by the government, the word “public” also connotes a specialized
meaning, i.e., governmental. The English word “administer” is derived from the Latin words “ad”
and “Ministrare” which means “To Serve”. Thus, in simple words “administration” means the
“management of affairs” or looking after the people. Woodrow Wilson is regarded as the father
of the discipline of Public Administration.

1.1. Objectives of the fieldwork

 To reflect about the main challenges faced by public administrators in Mozambique;

 To describe the challenges faced by public administrators in Mozambique.

1.2. Methodology

In this field work we consulted many books so the methodology used in this task is bibliographic
method which according to some writers it consists on consulting books and other bibliographic
materials.
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2. Challenges faced by public administrators in Mozambique

Public Administration is the complex of Governmental activities that are undertaken in public
interest at different levels such as the central, state and local level. It essentially deals with the,
machinery and procedures of Government activities. It is a means by which the policy decisions
are made by the political decision makers.

Public Administration is decision making, planning the work to be done, formulating objectives
and goals, working with the legislature and citizens of organization to gain public support and
funds for Government programmes, establishing and revising organization, directing and
supervising employees, providing leadership, communicating and receiving communication,
determining work methods and procedures, appraising performance, exercising control and other
functions performed by government executives and supervisors. It is the action part of the
Government, the means by which the purpose and goals of the Government are realized.

Public Administration translates the policy goals set by political decision makers, provides goods
and services to people, and implements socio-economic development programmes for all round
development of society.

With the emergence of democracy and the concept of modern welfare service of state, the
governmental activities have increased by leaps and bounds. Initially, the Governmental activities
were mainly limited to maintain the law and order, collection of revenue and protecting the
citizens from external aggression. But, nowadays, the Government has to take care of its citizens
from womb to tomb. It means the Government has to provide various goods and services to
people from birth to death and even after that in the form of taking care of the family of deceased.

Poor revenue collection is one of the challenges of public administrators. A state must allocate a
certain amount of money to meet the expenditure of the administration. The administration
becomes paralysed without sufficient finance. The main source of finance the administration is
revenue of the state includes all amounts of money such as taxes, fees, custom, and duties.
Revenue collection figure in global south countries is not satisfactory due to traditional tax
collection system, law turnover, limited scope of taxation, and corruption in tax administration.
The gap between government services and revenue is a common syndrome in global south
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countries. Loose management of public agencies, corruption, unrest, and shortage of resources
persist this gap day by day. As a result, administration of these countries cannot provide services
to their citizen at satisfactory level. These countries cannot implement development projects due
to shortage of fund too. They cannot allocate a sufficient amount of money to make their
administration efficient and effective. In addition, some taxation strategies such as tax
competition, trade liberalisation, tax holiday, and tolerance of tax havens are followed in these
countries that deteriorate domestic revenue figures. For instance, tax revenues account for only
13% of government earnings in low income countries while it is 36% in rich countries (Cronin,
2008).

One of the main challenges in public administrators is to find against corruption in Mozambique.
Corruption is a barrier to reconstruct and consolidate global south (Delesques and Torabi, 2007).
It restricts investment and hold back economic growth. It also makes public management
ineffective that declines productivity of a nation (Pack, 1988). Corruption is an important
symptom of low quality government (Besley, 2006).

Developed countries and donor agencies finance global south countries to alleviate poverty and
strengthen their administrative capability. This flow of foreign money in fragile and corrupt
management of public affairs makes them more corrupt. For example, in the last decade the Anti-
Corruption Commission of Bangladesh filed a number of cases against politicians, bureaucrats,
police and businessmen due to corruption whereas most of the big deals are related with earning
of money as bribe from the donors agencies, multinational corporations, and foreign investors.

In few words, if you dream to be a successful administrator to have close your eyes and live your
own life, because every single thing done in our country, its done under corruption. Administrator
the life with fear, because if everyone try to denounce what is happening he will lose his/her job
or will transferred to work in far side.
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3. Conclusion

We concluded in this fieldwork that we have seen the challenges of effective and efficient public
management in global south and their possible solutions for individual challenge. New public
management could be the best solution to global south countries to strengthen their administrative
machineries to achieve esteem development goal through the solution of multidimensional and
multi-sectoral problems. New public management does not only ensure a set of managerial and
service delivery techniques but also incorporates a set of techniques to serve the people at
satisfactory level. The essential initiatives of new public management are: privatisation,
deregulation, marketisation, and establishing welfare state in the place of police state system.
Individual rights rather than collective rights is more considerable to the new public management.
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4. References

BESLEY, T. (2006) Principled Agents? The Political Economy of Good Government. Oxford,
Oxford University Press.

CRONIN, D. (2008) Poor Hit by Recession and Tax Havens. Inter Press Service, October 27.

DELESQUES, L. and TORABI, Y. (2007) Reconstruction National Integrity System Survey

Afghanistan 2000. Kabul: IWA.