High Officials’ Responsibility and State Accountability in the Age of Neoliberal Discharge:

Abstract

This chapter raises the question of the responsibility of high-officials in the conservation sector in Mozambique, by focusing on their discourses and strategic positioning in order to analyse their condition of in-betweenness as being half servants of the state, and half project managers of international organizations. The aid regime does induce transformations of the regimes of responsibility, but the Frelimo party-state is able to cultivate loyalties among its servants, who work through combining a strong commitment to the state, as well as to the implementation of the reforms that are designed and financed by the foreign aid agencies.