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Watch: Cabo Delgado reconstruction to cost 300 million dollars – AIM report

9:48 CAT | 28 Sep 2021

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The Reconstruction Plan for the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado (PRCD), intended to ensure the recovery and rehabilitation of social and economic infrastructures destroyed by terrorist groups is budgeted at 300 million US dollars.

The amount was disclosed on Monday in Maputo by Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario, in a meeting between the government and its cooperation partners, where relevant details about the PRCD, to be implemented between 2021 and 2023, were shared.

Rosario said that, out of the total amount of the plan, 200 million dollars will be spent on short term actions, within one year, to ensure immediate impact, while the remaining sum will be channeled to medium and long term actions.

“We recognise that infrastructure reconstruction, and particularly repairing the social fabric is a great challenge and the government needs to establish partnerships and synergies at several levels, to ensure that the work can be conducted as swiftly as desired,” Rosario stressed, adding that the other plans underway will not be interrupted.

The Mozambican Defence and Security forces alongside Rwandan forces and the Southern African Development Community Military Mission (Samim) have freed the most affected districts (including Mocimboa da Praia, Palma, Muidumbe, Nangade and Macomia) from ISIS terrorists.

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The success of the joint forces on the ground, Rosario stated, has allowed a gradual return of people who fled from their homes and sought refuge elsewhere. The number of people displaced by terrorism is now estimated at 786,520.

The insurgency has affected 348 primary schools and eight secondary schools, and 31 health centres, and has wrecked about 4,965 micro, small and medium companies,

Through the short term actions envisaged in the plan, Rosario said, the government wants to ensure the re-opening of the public administration, water supply and sanitation, the resumption of health care and education, the reestablishment of communication, and the creation of basic conditions for agriculture and fisheries.

“Some of the envisaged actions are already underway and we have resumed the payment of the basic social allowance, and the delivery of humanitarian aid. We restored electricity, and we are also restoring road access and mobile telecommunications,” Rosario said.

But long term results expected from the plan include restoring security and people’s livelihoods in their places of origin; the creation of conditions to encourage the private sector as well as the return of investors.

Irish Ambassador, Nuala O’Brien, on behalf of the cooperation partners, acknowledged the complexity of the challenges but pledged commitment to create a coordinated answer to the needs of the displaced communities.

The United Nations Resident Coordinator in Mozambique, Myrta Kaulard, said further discussions will be held for a better understanding of the details of the plan, but praised the progress on the ground which has enabled the delivery of humanitarian aid into areas that were used to be completely out of reach.

#Mocambique apresentou hoje aos parceiros de cooperação o plano de reconstrução de #CaboDelgado avaliado em cerca $300 milhões, sendo que aproximadamente $200m são destinados para a implementação de acções de curto prazo, que compreendem um período de 1 ano para sua implementação pic.twitter.com/YLOyid5EKN

— Alexandre (@AllexandreMZ) September 27, 2021