Her Excellency Mrs. Ivete Maibaze, Minister of Land and Environment, opened the Seminar and was preceded by the Honorable Arch. Vicente Joaquim, Secretary of State for the City of Maputo, Arch. Vicente Joaquim; and Ms. Gayatri Singh, Co-TTL of the Project representing the World Bank, the entity financing the activity, through the Urban and Local Development Project (PDUL).
In his first intervention, the Honorable Secretary of the State of the City of Maputo, congratulated the Seminar and welcomed all participants, on behalf of the Government of the City of Maputo, which hosts this event.
The Project Co-TTL, on behalf of the World Bank, then extended her best regards to all participants and said that it was with great pleasure that she was at the opening of this important workshop event for the review of the Legislative Spatial Planning Package.
Through an initiative called “NOSSO TERRITÓRIO”, the Government is reviewing the package of legislation on the planning of the national territory, with a view to adjusting it to the current context of the country, characterized by the discovery and exploitation of natural resources, the emergence of new urban centers, rapid urbanization of towns and socio-economic vulnerability to natural disasters associated with climate change.
