§ Mr. AingerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list those aid projects in Mozambique supported by his Department in the last five years, indicating those which will provide sustainable development.
§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 17 February 1995]: Bilateral aid projects supported over the last five years are as follows:
- Rural Development
- Workshop to facilitate better co-ordination between NGOs. Mozambican Government authorities and ODA
131 - Save the Children Fund: Rehabilitation and construction of secondary and tertiary bridges in Zambezia province
- Fisheries
- Angoche jetty and Emepesca trawler rehabilitation prawn by-catch project
- Power
- Maputo power station rehabilitation of brush steam generators training of electricians in the electricidade de Mozambique
- Roads
- Mechanical engineering assistance
- Technical assistance to the planning department of the national directorate of roads
- Bus rehabilitation study
- Study to develop a programme for the rehabilitation of secondary and tertiary roads in Zambezia province
- Air Transport
- Aeronautical equipment and telecommunications provision
- Water Transport
- Matola jetties rehabilitation and construction
- Public Administration
- Social dimensions of adjustment contributions to the World bank study
- Institutional strengthening of GCPI (Office for co-ordinating import support programmes)
- Study to assist in the institutional development of free trade zones
- Elections
- Multi-party elections seminar
- Finance
- Assistance to the banking sector
- Contribution to the World bank finance sector adjustment project
- Education
- Assistance to pre-university training
- Assistance to the National Institute for Development in Education (INDE)
- Assistance to the Institute of Languages
- Development of the secondary English department in Eduardo Mondlane university
- Development of the teacher training initiatives in Mozambique
- Multi-sectoral Rehabilitation Grants funded through Non-Governmental Organisations
- Concern: Education and water programmes in Nampula province
- Co-operation for development: support small farmers co-operatives
- Vet Aid: Paravet training Inhassunge District
- Christian Aid: Rehabilitation of educational medical and agricultural activities in Namorroi and Inhassunge districts.
- Action Aid: Rehabilitation and provision of resources for the development of the primary education and agricultural sectors in Pebane district
- In addition Mozambique has benefitted from UK assistance provided to the Southern Africa Development Community as follows:
- Railways
- Rehabilitation of the Limpopo railway and a technical assistance to develop the institutional capacity of the managing Mozambican authority
- Rehabilitation of the Nacala railway and transport corridor.
- Water Transport
- Rehabilitation and institutional development of Maputo port
- We regard all these projects as contributing to sustainable development
§ Mr. AingerTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list the level of aid provided for Mozambique in each of the last five financial years.
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§ Mr. Baldry[holding answer 17 February 1995]: The figures for our bilateral aid to Mozambique are as follows:
£000 1989–90 19,589 1990–91 25,059 1991–92 17,086 1992–93 31,441 1993–94 29,930 In addition, Mozambique has benefited from United Kingdom assistance provided to the Southern Africa development community as follows:
£000 1989–90 2,935 1990–91 5,903 1991–92 6,900 1992–93 3,340 1993–94 1,398