O processo de planificação descentralizada e sua contribuição desenvolvimento econômico

Abstract

Since the 1990s, the Mozambican public administration has devoted attention to strengthening local governments, with particular emphasis on aspects related to decentralization, deconcentration, administrative reform, district planning with community participation and an increasingly growing allocation of competences and resources for the implementation of impact programs at the local level. In a very particular way, since 1996, the government has been making efforts to find a governance model and corresponding legislation, based on the principle of administrative decentralization or deconcentration, in order to accommodate and promote development at the district level. In 1998, the Mozambican government began testing district planning for the first time, (based on the guidelines for the preparation of the district development plan), which in essence aimed to train the district government in the preparation of the district development plan, with community participation. The results of this experimental phase were considered positive, so it was decided to expand the program to other provinces in the country, namely, cabo delgado, manica, sofala, tete and zambézia, with the Ministry of Planning and Development (mpd ) to formulate a national district planning program to embrace the remaining provinces, so that the program covers the entire country. It is in this context that I propose to carry out this work on the process of decentralized planning and its contribution to economic development”, taking as a practical case the district of Matutuine, province of Maputo