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Coordination failures, the need to integrate resilience into projects, the procedures required by cooperation partners and the multiplicity of these partners: these are the main challenges to the reconstruction process after cyclones Idai and Kenneth hit the country in March and April 2019 respectively.
This was the explanation given on Wednesday by the executive director of the Office of Post-Cyclones Idai and Kenneth Reconstruction (GRECOP) Luís Paulo Mandlate, who underlined that 77% of the US$1.2 billion secured from partners was being applied by different agencies, and that only 23% of the sum was under the direct management of his own institution.
Luís Paulo Mandlate mentioned deficient flows of information and articulation, revealing that some non-governmental organisations were moving forward with the construction of houses without the designs including any resilience component, undermining the future of the enterprise and the life of the occupants.
Mandlate told journalists that the strict procedures for accessing the funds pledged by the partners lengthened or delayed effective progress, prolonging the anxiety and suffering of those affected, and that there was need for more balance.
Of the 190,000 homes to be rebuilt, out of a total of 290,000 damaged by the two cyclones in the centre of the country and in Cabo Delgado and Nampula, the World Bank will finance 15,000.
GRECOP had to resort to the National Institute of Statistics, the National Directorate of Water Resources Management and other institutions to define the 15,000 beneficiary households, depending on their degree of vulnerability, the safety of the area in which they lived and other criteria.
The 15,000 households identified are in the city of Beira and the districts of Búzi, Dondo and Nhamatanda in Sofala province, and in Ibo, Macomia and Quissanga in Cabo Delgado.
The 15,000 homes should be completed by mid-2024, Mandlate said.
Apart from the World Bank, other partners are willing to support the reconstruction of 6,000 houses, bringing to 21,000 the total number of houses to be built.
Cyclone Idai hit the centre of the country in March, 2019, and Kenneth hit the north in April of the same year. Sofala and Cabo Delgado provinces were worst affected.
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