Maputo — The Maputo Municipality is to implement, as from next year, an integrated development project for the Chamanculo 'C' neighbourhood, with Italian and Brazilian cooperation, declared the city's mayor, David Simango, on Monday.
According to the plans, it will take 24 months to implement this project, and it will cost 2.7 million US dollars.
"In practice, we want to urbanize this neghbourhood, and have well identified plots, to open roads, to build drainage and sanitation systems, in order to improve the lives of the residents", said Simango.
'We want to use the case of Chamunculo 'C' as a pilot experience to be extended to all of entire Chamanculo, Mafalala, and Maxaquene suburbs, which are the suburbs with most problems of access roads and population resettlement", he added.
Simango was addressing the opening session of a four day meeting on cooperation between Mozambique and Italy in this specific area of urban planning. Representatives of various departments of the Brazilian government, as well as the Italian government attended.
The meeting is to approve the final document of the project and actions to mobilize the communities and carry out the necessary plans for the technical studies in the field.
Preparations for the document in question started about a year ago, and brought a number of specialists from Italy and Brazil to Maputo, and a delegation from the Maputo municipal council visited Brazil to exchange experiences and learn methods of how to implement the project.
Simango said that expectations are that the meeting will find consensus to ensure "the success of the project in its methodological, technical and financial aspects, and also in the mechanisms of technical inspection and financial management".
As for the need to resettle some families, whose houses may have to be demolished to give way to the implementation of the project, Simango said "the approach is to move families only when justified. It is not to move everyone. The idea is not to destroy everything and clear up the zone afterwards".
"Obviously, we will do so whenever necessary to open roads, and that may affect some people", said Simango. "But we have the experience of building urban roads where we move the minimum number of people when necessary".
In such cases, the people moved would be compensated - not monetarily, but providing them with "a new plot, and conditions for a new house, sometimes better than the one they had before", said the mayor.
Source:allafrica.com/
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