MOZAMBIQUE RECOMMENDATIONS y Further rollout of the training of civil servants in the area of the Right to Information Law aimed at holders of public office, key people holding and managing relevant information such as contracts, minutes of public tender awards, reports and accounts. y Training of directors and heads of legal departments of public enterprises so they can master the Right to Information Law. y Continuation of training of employees on website management, as well as on prioritising information of public interest, rather than uploading organisational news; when updating websites. y Dissemination, at all levels, of the directive produced by MISA and CEDIMO with guidelines for employees in the process of making information available through websites. y Intensification of the plan to raise awareness of organisations holding public information to eradicate the culture of secrecy and fear. y Adaptation of libraries and archives to serve as spaces in which to examine information in hard copy, with the help of communication departments. y Continuation of assistance to Government in the dissemination of the Law on the Right to Information and information that must be accessible to the public. y Review of the Law in order to define clear accountability mechanisms for agents who deny information. y Continuation of awareness raising among journalists and the public of the need to use the law for information requests. RETURN TO CONTENTS PAGE THE MOST SECRETIVE PUBLIC ORGANISATION IN MOZAMBIQUE In most public organisations, information remains very protected and inaccessible to the citizen, despite the training campaign for civil servants carried out in recent years by MISA and the Ministry of Civil Service and Administration. The organisation with the lowest score was the Secretariat of State for Youth and Employment which scored 0 points in both categories. Therefore, the 2020 Golden Padlock Award goes to the Secretariat of State for Youth and Employment. THE MOST OPEN PUBLIC ORGANISATION IN MOZAMBIQUE The Institute for the Management of State Holdings has an updated website and provided the information as requested. Therefore, the 2020 Golden Key Award goes to the Institute for the Management of State Holdings. 103