- This is about 310 million dollars (USD) that the country received in the fourth general allocation of Special Drawing Rights from the IMF in August 2021, whose management is not reported in the different reports of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) because it has been managed in a discretionary and non- -transparent way by the Bank of Mozambique (BM). The BM assumed ownership of the funds and exempted itself from accountability, not issuing any statement acknowledging receipt of funds or plans or updates on their use in mitigating the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the registration of the first cases in Mozambique in mid-March 2020, the Government prepared a plan valued at USD 700 million to mitigate the potential direct and indirect impacts of the pandemic and those arising from the restriction measures adopted for its containment. Since then, the Government, through the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), has regularly reported the financial and physical execution of funds mobilized from cooperation partners for the implementation of the plan.