Mozambique Northern Urban Development Project

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Prospective

The Mozambique Northern Urban Development Project (P175266) was approved on December 17, 2021. The project aims to address the impacts of rapid, unmanaged urban growth in northern Mozambique, which contributes to fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV). It enhances urban infrastructure resilience and basic services in peri-urban areas, improving housing quality and reducing climate risk vulnerability for the urban poor, including internally displaced persons (IDPs). By strengthening land tenure rights, especially for women, it fosters economic benefits, including better access to credit and increased productivity. The project also focuses on improving local and national urban policies and institutional capacity to ensure long-term sustainability. It targets the cities of Pemba, Montepuez, Nampula, and Nacala, to prioritize areas with high poverty and urbanization, large influxes of internally displaced people (IDPs), and climate exposure, while remaining adaptable to emerging needs.On December 15, 2024, Tropical Cyclone Chido made landfall in the district of Mecufi, near the city of Pemba in the southern part of Cabo Delgado Province and moved westward through the provinces of Niassa, Nampula, Tete, Manica and Sofala. The cyclone left in its wake the loss of lives and widespread destruction to houses, assets, urban infrastructure, and livelihoods. This additional financing (AF) from the IDA Crisis Response Window (CRW) for US$40 million aims to complement ongoing recovery efforts and partially address the financing gap for emergency rehabilitation, re-establish basic services and infrastructure, promote climate-resilient infrastructure and reduce risks in areas affected by Tropical Cyclone Chido. In addition to responding to the emergency, this additional grant also helps to scale-up the existing project activities. The activities align with the components of the parent project:Component 1 – Urban Infrastructure and Basic Services enhances urban infrastructure and services in the participating municipalities for 460,000 people, focusing on climate resilience, flood/erosion reduction, and sustainable materials, promoting an inclusive, productive, and energy-efficient urban environment. Component 2: Urban Housing and Land improves housing for 8,200 vulnerable households, formalizes land tenure for 64,000 households, and promotes climate-resilient, low-carbon, energy-efficient housing and land use planning to mitigate climate risks. Climate considerations in land use planning will be introduced and enforced to protect high climate risk areas (flooding and erosion and green infrastructure) and guide land tenure regularization.Component 3: Urban Policy Reform and Institutional Strengthening will support enhancing national-level urban policy and institutional frameworks, and local-level urban management capacity, to ensure the effectiveness, accountability, and sustainability of the project’s interventions and approaches, including mainstreaming of climate risk-sensitive approaches. Component 4: Project Implementation Support supports project implementation through the existing Project Implementation Unit (PIU) within the Housing Development Fund Public Fund (FFH). The PIU manages day-to-day operations with a coordination team at FFH headquarters and provincial teams in Cabo Delgado and Nampula.Component 5: Contingent Emergency Response aims to facilitate access to rapid financing through the reallocation of uncommitted project funds in the event of an eligible crisis or emergency.

FY17 - Industry, Trade and Services,FY17 - Public Administration,FY17 - Transportation

World Bank Group

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Road, Water Supply and Storage, Commercial, Government, Telecommunications, Residential