BEIRAMUNICIPAL RESILIENCE: A 1000 PIECES PUZZLE

By: Daviz Simango

Mayor of Beira

Stockholm, 26 August 2019

Beira at a glance

600,000 people52 km2 urban area30 km of coast line3,000 municipal employees16 million USD annual municipal budgeta major port serving hinterland countries

Contents

Beira: the 2035 vision

Beira: a city at risk

Beira: a city of people

Beira: a city of business

Solving the puzzle, building back better

Beira master plan, priority interventions

Strengthening performance of Beira municipality including land registry

Vision 2035

Disaster Risk Management

Beira: a city at risk

We knew it could happen.We didn’t know when…

14 March 2019

Post-Idai…

Impact of storm surge would have been worse ifIdai had hit during spring tide, which it did not…

Idai, as it happened

Post Idai damage pattern –initial damage by wind, rainfall and flooding did the rest

Post Idaidamages and needs

DAMAGES LOSSES NEEDS

Social

Housing and settlements USD 184,380,000 USD 37,626,000 USD 275,345,000

Municipal buildings and services

USD 8,290,000 USD 1,460,000 USD 12,310,000

Infrastructure

Coastal protection USD 1,975,000 USD 0 USD 90,850,000

Drainage USD 121,000 USD 0 USD 193,606,000

Sanitation USD 98,000 USD 0 USD 48,958,000

Solid Waste Management USD 410,000 USD 223,000 USD 28,079,000

Road infrastructure USD 2,000,000 USD 1,850,000 USD 37,300,000

Economic

Business* USD 119,000,000 USD 203,000,000

Grand totals USD 316,274,000 USD 41,158,000 USD 888,448,000

* damages and losses aggregated

Beira: a city of people

Economic Stratication

(monthly income per

capita)

61 people killed in city

1500 people treated for injuries

4733 cases of cholera diagnosed and treated, 4 casualties of cholera

63,506 houses without roof

23,822 houses destroyed (150,000 people)

IDAI IMPACT ON PEOPLE IN BEIRA

70% of houses damaged

Roof damage due to high windspeeds

Capacity building for building back better

Beira needs safer and more resilient housing for all

HOUSING AND SETTLEMENTS

275,345,000 USD

Beira: a city of business

Port area

City of business

Port expansion

Port access road

Industrial area

Solving the puzzle:

Build Beira Back Better

Infrastructure: coastal protection

Beira Terrace Hotel -Ponta Gea

Ponta Gea – Macuti Lighthouse

USD 90,850,000

Coast road heavily damaged by storm surge

Roads damage due to > 3000 felled trees

Damage due to heavy trucks after Idai

ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE

176 buildings owned by municipality• 60% severely damaged

Equipment such as computers and furniture severely damaged

Loss of taxes and income

MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS AND SERVICES

Strategic solutions that nowget momentum due to storm

Contents

Piloting: Maraza Urban Housing Expansion

Maraza Urban Housing Expansion

Private developer: CASA REAL Lda.

Financier: REALL, social investor from UK

Cyclone tested affordable housing

First mortgages by local banks for low-income groups: Barclays/ABSA, others following

Prime lending rate 18.5%

AFFORDABLE CYCLONE-PROOF HOUSING IN INHAMIZUA AREA

Digitizing existing paper land registry

Resolving competing land rights claims

Building fit-for-purpose land administration system

Using that system to organize municipal processes

IMPROVING THE LAND REGISTRY

Process Support

Beira Investment Conferences and Finance Round Tables

NOW IS A GOOD TIME TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR PIECE OF THE PUZZLE!

Urban Land Development for All20 October 2016

The Case of Beira, Mozambique

Beira: the 2035 vision

Infrastructure: sanitation system

Reduction of diarrheal diseases

Needs urgent attention• Rehabilitated existing system

• Expansion into unserved areas (currently 37% of population connected)

• Decentralized modular solutions

• Business model for fecal sludge removal

Example: sanitation

Infrastructure: Setting up a sanitary landfill

People suffering from thedioxin –laden gasses fromincomplete burningprocesses

Solid Waste Management Needs

Physical – 27.234.000 USD

Debris removal

Processing equipment

Trucks

Improved integrated SWM system

Sanitary landfill

Governance needs - 230.000 USD

Studies for development of landfill

Planning of pilot composting centre

Capacity building – 650.000 USD

Institutional strengthening

Awareness campaigns

Small scale agriculture making way for urban expansion

Compensation as social restoration and improvement opportunity

Vocational training for enhanced income earning

Support from affected communities

RESETTLEMENT AND URBAN LIVELIHOODS RESTORATION