Mozambique: Beira mayor Daviz Simango appointed to UN-Habitat Forum

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Mozambique: Beira mayor Daviz Simango appointed to UN-Habitat Forum

3:53 CAT | 02 Jul 2019

Daviz Simango is the only Mozambican to join the AFUS forum of UN-Habitat

Beira mayor and leader of the MDM Daviz Simango has been chosen to represent Mozambique in the political bureau of the African Forum for Urban Safety (AFUS) of the United Nations, which is responsible for implementing the UN’s urban objectives.

Daviz Simango, mayor of Beira in Mozambique’s Sofala province and leader of the Mozambique Democratic Movement (MDM), the country’s third-largest political party, has been named executive member of the political bureau of the United Nations African Forum for Urban Safety (AFUS).

The executive committee is a forum for discussing the implementation of UN system-wide guidelines on safer cities and human settlements.

“It is a UN-Habitat forum to improve urban security. It is a forum for the implementation of United Nations decisions in this field, especially in relation to Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and African Union Agenda 2063, recently adopted in Nairobi at the end of May,” Daviz Simango said in an interview with DW Africa.

Mosambik Idai Wiederaufbau — *Response of the authorities to the effects of cyclone Idai was one of the reasons leading to Daviz Simango’s appointment*

“As a political bureau, we have the mission of interacting with all African countries, with all African municipalities and with all African states in order to achieve the great goals that comprise the sustainable development of Africa,” the Beira mayor said.

The currently ten-member bureau, including presidents of African municipalities and representatives of the African Union and UN-Habitat, will include a further five members, with a view to “strengthening its work and ensuring that urban policies can be developed and implemented in a sustainable way while ensuring that no citizen lags behind in urban development,” Simango added.

How to represent Mozambique in the forum?

Simango is the only Mozambican in the group, he confirmed in Beira on Saturday (30-06) after arriving from South Africa. He will give his best so that Mozambique is well-represented in the forum formed by several African countries, he promised.

Simango intends to present the real difficulties and needs of the local authorities in detail, without any political slant. His skills in municipal management since 2003, when he ascended to his current position, weighed the most in his appointment, which took place last Thursday (27-06).

Recent developments in the authority’s response to Cyclone Idai and subsequent floods, as well as the follow-up to the current reconstruction process, also weighed heavily in the UN decision.

Welcome to Durban EThekwini SA where the Hon members of the Bureau are deliberating to renew the Bureau of AFUS -African Forum for Urban Safety ! We thank UN habitat UCLG Africa and Durban for strong support provided to adopt the new Charter,the SPV and the new work programme! pic.twitter.com/cPv94X2qI4

— Alioune Badiane (@badianeal) June 27, 2019

@SALGA_Gov CEO, @salgaceo at the @UNHABITAT #SaferCities 3rd African Forum for Urban Safety(AFUS) Learning Exchange at @DurbanICC. ’There is a need to broaden the focus to consider dimensions urban safety insofar as it relates specifically to women’ pic.twitter.com/jap6WjjJpY

— Sabelo Gwala (@Sabelo912) June 28, 2019