Mozambique |ADIN: Year Zero! – Carta

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Mozambique |ADIN: Year Zero! – Carta

7:03 CAT | 10 Mar 2021

The composition of the Agency for the Integrated Development of the North (ADIN), which is expected to address the socio-economic retardation of Mozambique’s northern provinces, one of the alleged reasons for the insurgency in Cabo Delgado, began to be revealed in Pemba on Monday.

A multidisciplinary team of Mozambican consultants, supported by experts offered by cooperation agencies, launched a series of open seminars and focus groups. After Pemba Nampula and Niassa will follow.

The expected outcome of these consultations is a Resilient Strategy for the Integrated Development of the North. The strategy document should be ready in June and, after approval by the Council of Ministers, will become the blueprint for ADIN’s interventions in the field.

The team of consultants is led by renowned Mozambican lawyer Abdul Carimo Issá. He told ‘Carta’ that his main focus was locating and collating the many studies already carried out on the northern region, with an emphasis on documents produced by organisations such as IESE and OMR.

In other words, the consultants will spend a good deal of time doing ‘desk research’.

Abdul Carimo Issá’s team is made up of personalities who move in the Frelimo political area and specialists with long years of work with international organisations. Two stand out: the economist Armando Inroga and Paulo Fumane. The first was a minister in Armando Guebuza’s executive, and the second has worked in top roles at the CTA, the Millennium Challenge Account and Maputo-Sul.

Other members are engineer Anabela Fernandes and demographer Maria Dalas Conceição, plus Sheik Saide Abibe, author of one of the most penetrating studies of the roots of terrorism in Cabo Delgado, who will be responsible for the strategy’s Violence, Extremism and Pacification pillar.

By Marcelo Mose

Source: Carta de Moçambique