The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) believes that promoting dialogue and strengthening decentralized governance can be ways of resolving conflicts in the country.

Quoted by Rádio Moçambique, the UNDP's Technical Advisor in Mozambique, Cristino Lopez, said that it was up to the government and Mozambicans to decide which strategies were appropriate to the country's reality.

Cristino Lopez was speaking yesterday in Maputo at the meeting of the Steering Committee for Decentralization Projects for Development.

For Lopez, the provinces were able to identify priorities and design solutions to local problems on the basis of the project.

The National Director of Planning and Cooperation at the Ministry of State Administration and Civil Service, Biza Novela, said that the government was satisfied with the improvements in the functioning of the public sector.

The Decentralization for Development projects aim to strengthen local governance capacity and ensure the implementation of the UN's 2030 Agenda in the provinces of Niassa, Nampula, Cabo Delgado, Sofala, Manica and Maputo.