All listenership, readership, viewership rates for specific media outlets in these articles represents the habits of regular media users and not the overall population.
The survey referenced in these articles was designed to capture information based on the population distribution of recent media consumers: “what are the demographics of those who have watched TV, listened to the radio, read a newspaper in the past week” as opposed to what percentage of the adult population has watched TV or listened to the radio.
KEY COMMUNICATION AND DEVELOPMENT WEBSITES AND PROJECTS
World Bank Country Profile and Projects_Mozambique
World Bank Knowledge Economy Index
WHO Health Statistics- Mozambique
UNESCO Edcuation Statistics
UNDP Human Development Indicators- Mozambique
Amnesty International- Mozambique
Global Voices- Mozambique
Mobileactive.org- Mozambique Statistics
Freedom House Map of Press Freedom 2009
World Bank Governance Matters Indicators
Mozambique Northern Provinces
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In Northern Mozambique: Low Economic Development and Refugee Influx
Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula
Fifty-two percent of Mozambique’s poor live in the northern provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Nampula and Zambezia. The rate of economic development and urbanization in these provinces is also much lower than in the southern and central provinces along the coast. Interestingly, the levels of HIV prevalence (9 percent in 2007) are lower than that the rest of the country (16 percent in 2007) but rates of other diseases such as malaria and syphilis tend to be higher.
Radio Mozambique is the most listened to station in all of these provinces. This could be partly due to the absence of non-state radio stations -- both private and nonprofit -- to compete with Radio Mozambique in these regions.
Niassa, despite being one of the biggest provinces in the country, remains the least populated with just 1.03 million people. In Niassa, Radio Mozambique’s leadership seems undisputed as a source for news and information as well as general listenership. For local programming, 53 percent respondents relied on Radio Mozambique, but a few sources other than Radio Mozambique also have their vote -- 24 percent said that community station R. Communitaria was a good source for local programming and 14 percent rely on community station Radio Esperanca (their weekly listenership levels are shown in chart above).
Cabo Delgado is the northernmost province of Mozambique bordering the neighboring country of Tanzania and has a population of 1.65 million. The region is an ethnic stronghold of the Makonde tribe. Macua and Mwani ethnic groups are also present. There has never been much trading activity or industry in the capital city, Pemba.
For local programming, respondents from Cabo Delgado said they rely on community stations RTV-C and Radio Girimba: 42 percent favor RTV-C, 20 percent favor Radio Mozambique and 19 percent favor Radio Girimba.
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Nampula, unlike other provinces in the north, is one of the most populated with a total population of 3.77 million. Nampula is also facing some specific challenges as a result of increased influx of refugees.The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has expressed concern about the number of refugees, the majority of whom are from the Democratic Republic of Congo, followed by Burundi, Rwanda, and other countries in Africa. In early 2009, the estimated number of refugees was 7,600 (3,150 refugees and 4,450 asylum-seekers), and more than 60 percent are residents of Marratane refugee camp in Nampula. The high population density results in higher pressure on natural resources in these areas.
In Nampula, the sources of information on radio seem scarce. The listenership is divided between Radio Mozambique and the sports channel, Radio Desperto Inerprovincial-Nampula. When respondents were asked what their preferred channels were for various kinds of content, they favored Radio Parap and Radio Encontro for its local programming, but both these channels had negligible low rankings when actual weekly listenership was measured.
A Note about Methodology: In order to collect weekly listenership data for the radio channels that were being listened to across the 11 provinces, this report used the following methodology: Respondents in the Synovate/Steadman Media Diary Survey 2009 were asked to name (first spontaneous and then prompted) radio stations they had heard of or listened to. Once this list was ascertained, the respondent was then asked when they had listened to these radio stations last (yesterday, last week, last 4 weeks, and longer than that/never). From this we tabulated weekly radio listenership for all possible radio stations and then cross-tabbed this with a variable listing the province from which the respondent belonged. Radio stations that registered higher than 15 percent listenership in any province are featured in this report.
Information and Some Key Data for this report was sourced from
INE, 2006 (Mozambique National Statistics)
Mozambique: Drought and floods bring food shortages IRIN News
Mozambique: After the Floods. IRIN News
Mozambique: Floods could aggravate seasonal cholera IRIN News
Mozambique: Cholera Situation "Stationary" All Africa.com
Mozambique: Cholera Outbreaks in Five Provinces All Africa.com
Millenium Challenge Corporation Mozambique Fact Sheet
Mozambique Aids Profile/Summary from University of California, San Francisco
United Nations High Commission on Refugees- Mozambique Profile
Mozambique: Sharp Population Growth in Maputo Province All Africa.com
Mozambique-New African Frontiers