Presidential recommendations are mandatory – Minister Namashulua

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Presidential recommendations are mandatory – Minister Namashulua

4:23 CAT | 04 Jul 2016

Notícias (File photo) / Filipe Nyusi, president of Mozambique, speaks in a popular rally in Chifunde, Tete province, May 28 2016

The Mozambican Minister of State Administration and Civil Service, Carmelita Namashulua, says that the recommendations produced during presidential visits to the provinces should be assumed to be binding and their implementation monitored periodically.

Provincial and district governments, according to Namashulua, are therefore obliged to specialise in the production of crops in which each has the greatest potential and comparative advantage, reports State News Agency AIM.

Namashulua, who was speaking at the closing of the Second Coordinating Council of the Ministry of State Administration and Civil Service held from Wednesday to Friday last week in Matola, said that districts were defined as developmental nodes, hence the resources they received were aimed at facilitating the goals formulated by the president.

The specialization of districts in particular production areas was one of the recommendations made by President Filipe Nyusi during his recent visit to Maputo province.

“In order to ensure that the State’s administrative machinery work towards meeting the needs of communities, a district development monitoring system has been implemented, which is an assessment tool for each district to identify its weaknesses and find alternatives to improve its performance,” said Namashulua.

The district development monitoring system, according to the minister, should be seen as a governance support tool joining a set of recommendations laid out by the President Nyusi at the national meeting of local governments held in Nacala, in December 2015 and during visits to the provinces in 2016.

mHOJE_NAMASHULUAAIM_PHOTO_JPG — Carmelita Namashulua (AIM, File photo)

“In this context, we believe that we have created the basic conditions for the administrative machinery of the state to work, in full, in the districts, making the most of the needs, capabilities and potential of territorial units for the creation of wealth and well-being of communities,” she said.

According to the minister, the performance of district administrators will be evaluated on the results that each district achieves. Namashulua simultaneously recommended public institutions safeguard the state’s financial resources in the light of the country’s current economic situation. The organisational units of the ministry must therefore adjust their activities to the current economic situation in the country so as to allow implementation based on realistic goals.

Source: AIM