Additional Financing to the Maputo Urban Transformation Project

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The PTUM addresses the challenge of unsustainable growth in Maputo due to the limited capacity of the municipality to provide basic urban infrastructure and land tenure security in informal settlements, to maintain and upgrade the drainage systems of the city center, to manage waste disposal in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner, and to implement spatial and sectoral plans to better guide future urban growth. With the Additional Financing, the project design by component will remain the same while activities and budget will be scaled-up, to address the flooding damages sustained following the recent cyclone events and mitigate ongoing challenges resulting in recurrent reconstruction needs in select urban settlements in the city, through additional recovery and rehabilitation investments in flood management and drainage infrastructure. The additional resources will scale up the impact of investments planned within urban settlements and drainage systems in Maputo city, which was severely damaged following consecutive cyclones and tropical storms over the past two years (Tropical Cyclones Ana, Dumako and Gombe) and most recently Tropical Cyclone Freddy which impacted Mozambique from February 24 to March 11, 2023.