ORSB – ANGOLA COUNTRY STRATEGY PAPER 2011 - 2015
2.2.6 Angola faces challenging
gender issues as reflected by the
2009 gender index gap score of 106
(out of 134 countries). Women in
Angola enjoy a high degree of civil
liberties and a dedicated ministry to
family and women affairs exists.
However, women are weakly protected
when it comes to issues such as
violence, divorce and inheritance. There
is a huge asymmetry in literacy rates.
program that can accommodate the
country’s new development goals.
Figure 4 - Public Investment Program 2010
Table 4- Gender Balance Indicators
Indicator
Labor force participation
literacy rates
Parliament Seats Balance
Cabinet Balance
Male
76%
83%
63%
70%
Female
90%
54%
37%
30%
Source: IMF 2010, Projected External Borrowing by contracts
2.3.2 Electricity shortages are a
crosscutting
constraint
to
the
country’s development. Despite the
estimated hydroelectric potential of
18,000 mw, only 20 percent of the
population has access to electric power,
and lack of electricity is considered the
first constraint to business (68 percent
of businesses resort to private diesel
generators). At present hydroelectric
power provides two third of energy
supply and diesel generators provide
the remainder. Strong government
investment has boosted generation and
on-going projects will double the
hydroelectric output. The transmission
and distribution grid have unfortunately
not kept pace resulting in common
power shortages.
Source: Ministerio da Familia e Mulher -. MINFAMU 2009
Females fare relatively better in terms of
labor force participation and political
representation both at the Government
cabinet level and in terms of parliament
seats (see Table 4). The Bank concluded
a Gender profile in 2008.
2.3
Business Environment Context
Infrastructure
2.3.1 Decades of internal strife have
resulted in the destruction or
deterioration
of
the
physical
infrastructure, compromising the
country’s social and economic
cohesion, and its regional integration
agenda.
The
rehabilitation
/reconstruction
of
the
existing
infrastructure has been, since 2002, the
upmost national priority to support
economic recovery, the delivery of
essential public services and to assist
the implementation of policy reforms.
Despite the remarkable ongoing effort to
reconstruct
and
rehabilitate
infrastructure, there is a need to plan
beyond and develop an expansion
2.3.3 The pre-war transport network
served national routes as well as
transport corridors for minerals from
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
and Zambia. The road grid comprises a
total of 73,000km, of which 23,000km
designated as principal network (PI).
Some 5,000km (21 percent of the PI)
was reconstructed to bitumen standards
in the past 6 years, with an additional
6.000km under upgrading. None of
9