The Northern Integrated Development Agency (ADIN) wants to promote self-employment projects to benefit more than 800,000 people displaced by the armed conflict in Cabo Delgado.

According to the president of ADIN, Armindo Ngunga, the initiative will be promoted in partnership with the Institute for the Promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (IPEME), an entity with which ADIN signed a memorandum this Tuesday, which provides for investments to promote livelihoods among groups affected by armed violence in Cabo Delgado.

According to Armindo Ngunga, quoted today by the Mozambican Information Agency (AIM), the aim is to "facilitate cooperation, exchange, and collaboration between ADIN and IPEME, with regard to the provision of services for the promotion and business development of micro, small and medium enterprises in the northern region of Mozambique.

"We want most of those covered to be able to design projects for joint resource mobilization in order to implement the promotion and business development activities," Ngunga pointed out.

Created in March 2020 by the Council of Ministers, ADIN is focused on the promotion of multiform actions aimed at the socio-economic development of Cabo Delgado, Niassa and Nampula provinces in the north of the country.

Among its objectives, the agency, which is also supported by the World Bank, has the mission to promote opportunities in regions affected by armed violence, especially for young people, with the ambition of preventing them from being recruited by armed groups.