Fostering understanding of Bank operations and delivering on its commitments under the revised Disclosure Policy are the main goals of the Mozambique Disclosure Pilot Activity. The World Bank supports Mozambique's program for broad-based, poverty-reducing growth by maintaining a comprehensive policy dialogue with the government, diversified lending portfolio, and aid coordination activities. There are currently 14 active IDA projects in Mozambique, representing a total commitment of almost $750 million. But the reality in the field brings challenges to the implementation of an effective dissemination strategy – these projects are scattered around the country and the World Bank's office in Maputo is at the very Southern point of a long country, limiting its outreach capability.

In this vast country with limited infrastructure, dissemination can be best achieved through existing public institutions (school and public libraries), mass media, the Internet and interpersonal forms of communication. The pilot proposes the formulation and adoption of an effective outreach strategy, including training of local staff, communications audit and audience survey, and enhanced support of the Country Assistance Strategy consultation process.

A Maputo-based public information officer will be recruited within the scope of the pilot and trained in Bank Operations, regional communications strategic approaches, and the new disclosure policy. The public information officer will then lead the communications audit, carried out to determine what information-sharing channels exist in the country, audiences to be targeted, and Bank literature available for dissemination to local audiences. As part of the communications audit, an audience survey will gather information on knowledge about the World Bank and the projects the institution supports, allowing the measurement of information demands within different groups - general public (mass media), universities, government, nongovernmental organizations - and to develop an appropriate strategy for meeting such demand. The public information officer will also play an important role in identifying the government's position on disclosure and forge partnerships where and when necessary with officials in government, civil society and the country-based donor community for the implementation of the revised disclosure policy procedures.

For the consultation process related to the Country Assistance Strategy, the pilot will support a program of information packaging and delivery, involving the translation of critical documents. The need to build local capacity for translating Bank documents may have to be accomplished as part of this task.