This Tuesday, ADIN shared its vision of Northern Development at a session that brought together the United Nations agencies operating in Mozambique.

The President of ADIN's Executive Committee, Jacinto Loureiro, in response to an invitation from the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Catherine Sozi, presented ADIN's perspectives and clarified ADIN's role in the context of the new statutes and the strategy to be adopted in the process of coordinating development projects.

Jacinto Loureiro referred to the history of ADIN's creation and the adversities it faced during its first four years, including the limitations that led the government to understand the need to renew its structure for a new term, with updated and strengthened attributions.

According to the President of ADIN, at the time the Agency was created, there were always expectations of ADIN being more involved and coordinating all the projects, but there were no instruments to do so, a fact that "both the government and the partners realized there was a lack of a strong entity with the powers and structure to coordinate all the projects in the northern zone.

This lack of coordination led to overlapping actions, interventions were isolated and didn't have the desired impact," and a better coordination mechanism was needed to allow for holistic intervention. "All of this led the government to approve the new ADIN Decree with new duties and powers," he explained.

The representatives of the United Nations agencies asked various questions to clarify the path to be followed in the context of their work in northern Mozambique, with emphasis on the need to establish a distinction between organizations working in the humanitarian area and those working in the development area; aspects of coordination between the various levels of government, from the District, the Provincial to the Secretary of State and the framework of the coordinating role played by ADIN.

On these aspects, referring to the ministerial decree, the President of ADIN clarified the difference between humanitarian support interventions and those aimed at development and referred to the fact that ADIN has coordination mechanisms, set up by the government, at the level of the Northern Region, in a structure that includes the provincial governments and their representation at district level.