Mozambique: PDUNM will rebuild two thousand houses and generate around eight thousand jobs

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Mozambique: PDUNM will rebuild two thousand houses and generate around eight thousand jobs

11:42 CAT | 20 Jun 2025

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The Government expects to rebuild, in the next twelve months, a minimum of two thousand houses, and generate around three thousand jobs and business opportunities for entrepreneurs in the municipalities of Nampula, Nacala, Pemba and Montepuez, within the scope of the “Housing Improvement”, with the implementation of the Northern Mozambique Urban Development Project (PDUNM).

Each of the four municipalities will benefit from the reconstruction of a minimum of 500 houses in previously selected neighbourhoods. To rebuild the houses, the project will not hire traditional contractors, but will recruit bricklayers, carpenters, blacksmiths, locksmiths and assistants from the beneficiary communities themselves, who will initially be trained. In total, around eight thousand young people will be hired in the four municipalities.

They will be joined by around 560 young people who will be hired to be surveyors of the socio-demographic census in the four municipalities.

The benefits also include local producers and suppliers of construction materials, who will also be selected and trained to meet the standards required by the project.

The main criterion for selecting the two thousand beneficiaries is socio-economic vulnerability, according to criteria established by Mozambican state institutions, namely, in cumulative terms, multidimensional poverty, vulnerable families according to INAS standards, internally displaced persons and very dilapidated houses.

To identify the beneficiaries, a socio-demographic survey will be carried out in each neighbourhood where the project will be implemented and selection committees will be set up, which will have the final say in choosing the beneficiaries. This committee will be made up of representatives from the Housing Development Fund (FFH), which is implementing the project; from each municipality, from the National Institute of Social Welfare (INAS), from the National Institute of Disaster Management (INGD), neighbourhood secretaries and two representatives from the beneficiary communities.

In addition to rebuilding houses, the PDUNM will contribute to the development of urban development projects and the regularization of property ownership.

The PDUNM is a project of the Government of Mozambique, implemented by the Housing Development Fund and financed by the World Bank to the tune of 140 million dollars.

Source: O País