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Mozambican NGO and university launch community income management manual
8:10 CAT | 21 Jun 2021
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The Civil Society Learning and Training Centre (CESC), in partnership with the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), is to distribute a manual to help local communities manage revenues from the exploitation of natural resources.
“It is necessary to organize the communities because there are resources that are increasingly exploited,” said CESC executive director Paula Monjane, cited by the Mozambique News Agency (AIM) on Thursday. The population “must be organised” to enjoy the percentage of income they are entitled to.
The Community Support Manual includes seven guides that cover the entire process of preparation, creation of funds, election of management members and operationalization of local funds fed by the 20% community share of income provided for by law.
According to Monjane, the country has already created 52 community organisations, 32 of which are registered.
The manual is the result of extensive consultation with communities in the provinces of Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Zambézia and Tete.
“In the last 15 years, natural resource management committees were created to receive this community benefit from the government,” said Raúl Chamboca, a specialist in natural resources, but there were some “conflicts”, and it was these the manual was designed to avoid.
Source: Lusa
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