Maputo: Comiche has US$150 million from the World Bank to “txunar” six municipal districts

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Maputo: Comiche has US$150 million from the World Bank to “txunar” six municipal districts

3:08 CAT | 08 Jun 2020

Photo: A Verdade

Six municipal districts in the capital of Mozambique will be “polished” [txunados] over the next five years with funds made available by the World Bank. “The objective of the project is to improve the urban infrastructure and strengthen the institutional capacity for sustainable urban development in the city of Maputo.” Maputo mayor Eneas Comiche hqs announced.

Last Friday (June 5), the public consultation phase of the Urban Transformation of Maputo was launched. Scheduled to start in November 2020 and last five years, it has a budget of around US$150 million, and promises, according to the mayor, to make the Mozambican capital “a metropolitan city that all citizens can be proud of and feel great pleasure in visiting or living in”.

@Verdade has learned that the Maputo Urban Transformation Project has four components: the integrated improvement of informal settlements, the revitalisation of the Baixa da Cidade [Maputo CBD], sustainable urban growth in KaTembe and improving municipal governance.

There is US$50 million for the improvement of informal settlements in 19 neighbourhoods in Nlhamankulu, KaMaxakeni, KaMavota and KaMubukwane which, @Verdade has learned, have been classified as the most vulnerable in Maputo City after a study that assessed vulnerability to climate change as well as the availability of infrastructure for their approximately 250,000 inhabitants.

The revitalisation of downtown Maputo in KaMpfumu municipal district will cost another US$50 million, which is expected to cover the refurbishment of Avenida 25 de Setembro, with a central public transport lane, construction of an intermodal station to mitigate transport congestion on Praça dos Trabalhadores, building two parking garages at the eastern and western ends of Baixa, improving the sewage and drainage system, recovering the degraded slopes of Maxaquene and Ponta Vermelha, creating measures to control rising tides and the construction of a wastewater treatment substation.

The transformation of KaTembe is budgeted at US$40 million and will start with the clear delimitation of the municipal district, spatial planning and the creation of new infrastructure in areas of urban expansion, with private sector involvement in parks, reserves and ecological areas, the creation of a transport terminal, delimitation of an ecological reserve area and the construction of a sanitary landfill.

The last US$10 million, @Verdade has learned, is to be used improving the municipal governance of Eneas Comiche and his team.

By Adérito Caldeira

Source: A Verdade