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Citations

Where a figure on our website comes from outside research, it names its source. Here is each of those sources in full, by the page that cites it, with a link to the document where one is public.

Impact

  1. UNICEF (2025). Multidimensional Child Poverty in Mozambique (2014/15–2022): Final Report. Ministry of Planning and Development, UNICEF Mozambique, UNU-WIDER and the University of Copenhagen.
  2. World Food Programme (WFP) (2026). Mozambique.
  3. UNESCO (2026). Global Education Monitoring Report 2026, country case study: Mozambique.
  4. Pontuschka, R. (2025). Exploring the reasons behind primary school dropout in Mozambique: Longitudinal assessment of school dropout in Mozambique 2021. Policy brief. UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.
  5. Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) (2024). Global Survey of School Meal Programs Country Report, Mozambique. 2022 school year.
  6. Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) and ICF (2024). Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey 2022–23.
  7. UNICEF Mozambique (2025). Early Childhood Development Brief. 2 of 11 thematic briefs based on the DHS 2022.
  8. Martinez, S., Naudeau, S. and Pereira, V. (2017). Preschool and Child Development Under Extreme Poverty: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Rural Mozambique. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 8290.
  9. World Bank and UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2020 data). Lower secondary completion rate, Mozambique (indicator SE.SEC.CMPT.LO.ZS). World Bank Gender Data Portal.
  10. Girls Not Brides (2022–23 data). Child Marriage Data. Mozambique DHS 2022–23 (INE and ICF).

Avança+

  1. UNESCO (2026). Global Education Monitoring Report 2026, country case study: Mozambique.

School Feeding

  1. Pontuschka, R. (2025). Exploring the reasons behind primary school dropout in Mozambique: Longitudinal assessment of school dropout in Mozambique 2021. Policy brief. UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight.
  2. UNESCO (2026). Global Education Monitoring Report 2026, country case study: Mozambique.

Where We Work

  1. FEWS NET (2026). Mozambique Food Security Outlook, February 2026.
  2. Natural Earth (n.d.). Natural Earth vector data, 1:110m countries and admin-1 provinces. Public domain.
  3. Runfola et al., geoBoundaries (2020). geoBoundaries: Mozambique district boundaries (ADM2, gbOpen). From INE and OCHA ROSEA; CC BY 3.0 IGO.

MSLI School Locations

  1. Natural Earth (n.d.). Natural Earth vector data, 1:110m countries and admin-1 provinces. Public domain.
  2. Runfola et al., geoBoundaries (2020). geoBoundaries: Mozambique district boundaries (ADM2, gbOpen). From INE and OCHA ROSEA; CC BY 3.0 IGO.

Maps and Data

Our maps are drawn from openly published data. Here is each source, its license, and what we use it for.

  • geoBoundaries. Mozambique district boundaries (ADM2), from the Instituto Nacional de Estatística (INE) and OCHA ROSEA. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO. Used for: district outlines on the schools map.
  • Natural Earth. Province and country boundaries. License: Public domain. Used for: the schools map, and the neighboring countries on the food insecurity map.
  • FEWS NET. Mozambique Food Security Outlook, February 2026: projected IPC phases, February–May 2026, and the boundaries of the zones they classify. License: Published as public data, on FEWS NET's terms. Used for: the food insecurity map on Where We Work.
  • School locations and 2026 enrollment are MSLI's own data, used for the schools map.