The process of rebuilding social infrastructure and housing destroyed by terrorists in Cabo Delgado and cyclones in the northern provinces will cost 300 million meticais, the Integrated Development Agency of the North (ADIN) said today in Maputo.

"There are already many infrastructures that have benefited from rehabilitation in the districts of Macomia and Quissanga, and at the moment we are surveying the levels of damage in the districts of Palma and Mocímboa da Praia. Therefore, there is already the reconstruction plan for Cabo Delgado underway, and the estimate was 300 million", said João Machatine Laimone, Coordinator of the Communication Programs and Crosscutting Issues Unit of ADIN, speaking at the second ordinary session for the presentation of the results of the 2021 and first quarter of 2022 activities.

The ADIN official, as spokesperson, considered last year's activities positive in that the institution facilitated the movement, dialogue and implementation of the plans of the "World Bank, United Nations agencies, OCHA, IOM and embassies" that offered to support the more than 850,000 people displaced from their areas of origin, under the Reconstruction Plan for Cabo Delgado (PRCD).

The aid from these cooperation entities, including civil society, focused on humanitarian assistance such as the construction of prefabricated houses, the provision of perishable and non-perishable goods, hygiene and health materials, and the provision of drinking water.

"We have also facilitated the reopening of the roads to the district headquarters abandoned due to the insurgency, among them those of Macomia, Quissanga, Palma, Mocímboa da Praia, and Muidumbe," Laimone enumerated, revealing that "we have verified the spontaneous return of the people to their areas of origin, in almost all of these districts," because "they are no longer waiting for 'a voice of command'.

The institution already has an office in Niassa province, [it will open another in Nampula], to facilitate the mapping in detail of the priorities of each part of these divisions in the northern zone.

Looking back on these almost two years of its existence, ADIN assumes that its activities have remained aligned with the Five-Year Government Program, Displacement Management Policy and Strategy (PEGD) and Cabo Delgado Reconstruction Plan (PRCD 2021-2024).

In this sense, ADIN's perspective is to consolidate its presence in the three provinces of Northern Mozambique, where, among several actions, it will seek to promote the reduction of unemployment, through the professional training of young people.