Mozambique: Weak coordination, limited information on rebuilding – NGO

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Mozambique: Weak coordination, limited information on rebuilding – NGO

11:33 CAT | 23 May 2023

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The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD), a Mozambican NGO, on Monday classified the coordination between partners that help Cabo Delgado as “weak” and the information on activities to rebuild in the face of armed conflict and humanitarian crisis “limited”.

“The discussions that took place at the meeting of the Territorial Planning Working Group also pointed to the weak coordination and limited availability of information of the activities implemented” by the partners, reads a statement distributed today.

At the same time, the discussions suggested “the need for the state, via the Northern Integrated Development Agency (ADIN), to take the reins of coordination of the humanitarian, peace and development nexus in northern Mozambique,” it added.

The CDD’s position was expressed after meetings on Wednesday and Thursday in Pemba between several national and international stakeholders in the context of interventions in northern Mozambique – the so-called Multi-Partner Platform (MSP).

The reconstruction process in the province “requires the robustness of national institutions that emerged as solutions for crisis management, in this case, ADIN and the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGD),” but “on the ground coordination is dominated by United Nations agencies,” CDD noted.

“This reality was confirmed by the MSP secretariat’s presentation” at last week’s meetings, it added.

“The presentation also noted poor information sharing by projects and programmes implemented by state agencies, diminishing the ability to gauge the level of disbursement of funds to finance the Cabo Delgado Reconstruction Plan (PRCD) and the Northern Resilience and Integrated Development Programme (PREDIN),” CDD stressed.

The situation also prevents assessing “the alignment with the different programmes and projects of national and international non-state actors, including civil society, which is demanding greater inclusion in the reconstruction process”.

The CDD suggested that there should be decentralisation of reconstruction activities in Cabo Delgado, giving “greater space and autonomy to provincial and local authorities”.

The aim, the CDD concluded, was for the moment to be “a process that the Mozambican state should take advantage of to re-establish its authority and recover the trust of its institutions among the population.

The province of Cabo Delgado has been facing an armed insurgency for five years, with some attacks claimed by the extremist Islamic State group and has led to a million displaced people, around 4,000 deaths and the destruction of numerous infrastructures.

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— CDD – Centro para Democracia e Desenvolvimento (@CDD_Moz) May 21, 2023