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Photo: Conselho Municipal da Cidade de Pemba
The Government of Japan has made available, through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), US$1 million (€935,000) to improve the garbage collection system in the municipality of Pemba, capital of Cabo Delgado province in northern Mozambique.
“The objective of this agreement with the municipality is basically to reinforce capacity in terms of equipment for solid waste management in Pemba, as part of the UNDP project for the recovery and stabilisation of Cabo Delgado,” head of the UNDP office Samuel Akera told the media in Pemba after signing the financing agreement with the mayor of the municipality.
The amount will be made available over a period of one year, from this month until June 2025, and is to be used “to purchase waste collection and management equipment, and for the construction of an access road to the landfill and waste disposal cells,” the document consulted by Lusa on Thursday reads.
The UNDP official enumerated many solid waste management problems in Pemba, the provincial capital of Cabo Delgado, resulting chiefly from the arrival of displaced people fleeing armed attacks by insurgent groups in the province.
According to Mayor Satar Abdulgani, the money will be used to purchase backhoe loaders, container trucks, graders, tippers, trucks, motorcycles and other equipment to improve environmental sanitation in the city.
“You can be sure that in five years we will not be in (…) situations of poor management of solid waste and access roads in our neighbourhoods in Pemba,” Abdulgani said.
The signing of the agreement between the UNDP and the municipality of Pemba takes place within the scope of the “Stabilization and Immediate Recovery in the Province of Cabo Delgado” project, the UNDP comments.
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