EU finances Mozambique’s electronic security system with EUR 400 thousand

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EU finances Mozambique’s electronic security system with EUR 400 thousand

3:12 CAT | 13 Dec 2016

Mozambique will receive EUR 400,000 from the European Union to finance a project to increase the security of electronic transactions between the public administration and citizens and companies.

The funding will be made available under a protocol within the Support Project to Quality Improvement and Proximity of Public Services in PALOP and Timor-Leste ( PASP) financed by the European Development Fund through the Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua.

The agreement was signed on Friday in Praia at a meeting of national representatives of the cooperation program of Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP) and Timor-Leste with the European Union.

Mozambique will create a State Electronic Certification System based on a public key infrastructure* “that will allow [the county] to increase the level of security in electronic transactions between the public administration, citizens and companies”, according to an explanatory note to the protocol.

The project aims to increase the quality of services provided and the level of security in order to prevent fraud and tax evasion.

The project ‘Implementation of State Electronic Certification’ is expected to take 18 months. The total amount of the funding is EUR 400,000.

PASP is a project co-financed by the European Union to the tune of EUR 4.8 million under the 10th European Development Fund and co-financed and implemented by the Camões – Institute for Cooperation and Language with EUR 1 million. The program is supervised by the Portuguese Agency for Administrative Modernisation.

National representatives of the European Development Fund for Portuguese-Speaking African Countries (PALOP) and Timor-Leste met on Friday in Cape Verde with representatives of the European Union.

The meeting aims to take stock of the EU’s cooperation program with Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe and Timor-Leste as well as identifying and flagging projects to be financed under the 11th European Fund Development (EDF) Plan, to be in force until 2020 with an allocated budget of EUR 30 million.

Stefano Manservisi, the European Union’s Director-General for Cooperation and Development, told Lusa news agency that the meeting represented a step forward in the ability of the countries concerned to organise and present projects to EDF.

“This meeting will consolidate the bases, as the countries of the PALOP-TL group will identify ways to implement the the program’s two sectors: good governance and creative industries as a way to create jobs,” he said.

Manservisi said he felt that in the past the implementation of the projects under the cooperation program for these countries “had always been a problem”, but he was convinced that “an approach closer to each of the realities” will bear fruit in the future.

“We have the budget and now we are going to work on the implementation. We have to work with the countries to identify concrete projects and forward them,” he said.

*A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a set of roles, policies, and procedures needed to create, manage, distribute, use, store, and revoke digital certificates and manage public-key encryption.

Source: Lusa