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Mozambique: Nyusi demands transparent management of land
8:06 CAT | 01 Apr 2022
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Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday demanded fair and transparent management of urban land in which local communities participate in drawing up development programmes.
According to Nyusi, the priority in managing urban land should be to promote improved living conditions, and so the programmes should be made with the population and not for the population.
He was speaking in Maputo at the opening session of the Second National Urban Forum, taking place under the motto “Urbanisation, a priority for sustainable development”.
“Participatory planning is more than one or two public consultations”, said Nyusi. “It means involving the local population actively and effectively, since they know their environment. It means planning with the public, so that when the plan is approved this population can not only identify with its purposes, but can also support in publicizing it, and defend it against disinformation”.
“That’s what inclusion is”, he insisted, “programming with the population and not programming for the population”.
He admitted it has been difficult for municipalities to draw up territorial plans at all levels, given their lack of human and financial resources, and the speed at which Mozambican cities are growing. But it was also true that often plans drawn up in offices “are not well understood or assimilated by the various local stakeholders, because they have not been sufficiently involved in producing them”.
Nyusi added that special attention should be paid to the dynamics and changes in society so that planning tools are always up-to-date, and become closer to realities, but without abandoning long term projections.
Source: AIM
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