City peer learning urban planning and management instruments relevant brazilian experience for mozam

Why Mozambique and Brazil?

THIS PROJECT CONNECTS WITH THE PROCESSES OF DECENTRALIZATION AND STRENGTHENING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. Brazil has made substantial advancements in the decentralization process and local governments’ empowerment. One of the milestones of this process was the creation of the MinistÊrio das Cidades and the development of the Estatuto da Cidade (2001).

Brazilian cities have the potential to share their experiences with other cities such as Mozambican ones, thus strengthening decentralized South - South cooperation.

In a similar, but more recent way, Mozambique is undergoing an important decentralization process and developing municipal urban management instruments and policies. Nonetheless, municipalities are still constrained in their legal, financial and technical capacity to reduce poverty and directly or indirectly help generate employment and revenue.

Despite the natural and foreseen differences between Brazilian and Mozambican policies, there are similar key points that make this South-South cooperation beneficial to the involved parties.

Source: Plano de Estructura Urbana, cidade de Inhambane, 2013