Late last year, Luisa Diogo, Mozambique’s minister of planning and finance, and government colleagues met with donors in Paris to discuss aid requirements for 2004. At the end of the meeting, the World Bank’s Consultative Group on Mozambique offered the government delegation $790m, over $100m more than the Mozambicans had been asking for.
The reaffirmation of donor support for Mozambique was, according to the World Bank, an endorsement of the government’s success in implementing its poverty reduction strategy during the past three years.
