Value Chain Improvement and Employment Creation Component of the project “Multidimensional resilient recovery of the Ibo and Buzi Districts”

Project Summary MOZ/21/04/HAB - Value Chain Improvement and Employment Creation Component of the project “Multidimensional resilient recovery of the Ibo and Buzi Districts”. The project is organized around four main components, developed through the use of tools and instruments that will ensure a unified approach in both districts, building upon economies of scale, and replicable interventions, to serve also as a model initiative that enable multiple stakeholders (governmental and non, public and private, humanitarian and development oriented…) to add their reconstruction contributions and actions under the same intervention framework. The project has four components which are as follows: I. developing a local framework of action for physical, social and economical post-disaster recovery, II. Addressing a sustainable and resilient rehabilitation of physical and cultural heritage III. Promoting Sustainable human settlements reconstruction, and IV. Creating socio-economic reconstruction and employment. The project is setting the bases to transform Ibo and Buzi recovery into models for disaster risk adaptation in cyclones and floods prone areas, as requested by the Government of Mozambique, creating the conditions for sustainable local socio-economic development after disasters. In addition, the project is building upon local community’s recovery skills and endogenous potentialities in terms of natural and human resources that need to be mobilized to achieve its goals, by using labour intensive techniques that can be quickly appropriated by the community but encompass a “Building Back Better” approach, also using Ibo environmental and cultural values and Buzi strategic position and fertility as pillars for orientating actions in a synergic and efficient way. This is being achieved through piloting technical and operational modalities defined in PREPOC and PALPOC to optimize local resources and capacities with innovative solutions, to be tested in Mozambique for the first time, such as community-based or household-based self assisted reconstruction, based on the use of employment intensive techniques, strong responsibilization of “beneficiaries” in becoming the protagonists and promoters of their own reconstruction (see further descriptions of Community Contracts, “Bank of Materials”, Food for Assets modalities within the most relevant) and use of local resources – including manufacturing of alternative construction materials – to enable a cheap and decentralized reconstruction model.

Project symbol

MOZ/21/04/HAB

Admin unit

CO-Lusaka

Start date

01/02/2022

End date

05/02/2025

Total allocation

594224

Total expenditure

Status

Active

594549

Development Partners

United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Country/Countries

Mozambique

Outcomes

Outcome 3: Full and productive employment for just transitions