Over recent years, the government has endeavored to lay the foundations for an intellectual
property system in the country, consisting essentially of the following:
a) The creation of a national legal and institutional framework;
b) Accession to the main international instruments relating to intellectual property; and
c) Accession to the main regional and international organizations active in this sphere.
This, then, is the background to the Intellectual Property Strategy, a document setting guidelines
for the actions to be undertaken in order to set up an intellectual property system as a tool for
stimulating progress in Mozambique.