Portugal notes “very positive impacts” on infrastructure they finance in Cape Verde – News
The assessment of the impact of five infrastructures in Cape Verde financed by credit lines from Portugal was requested by Camões – Institute for Cooperation and Language and carried out by consultants from the Faculty of Economics of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Under evaluation, the expansion of the center, Figueira Gorda and Saquinho dams on the island of Santiago, Salvoltaica, and expansion of the island of Praia ports in Santiago, and Porto in Santo Antão.
As Manuel Lino Ferreira, one of the consultants for the study, told the press in Praia, four had “very positive impacts” on local communities and were part of the Cape Verde Government’s development policy.
On the other hand, the same official said that the results of the Saquinho dam in Santa Catarina de Santiago, “so good”, stressing, however, that they can be improved, and are not so similar in that sense.
João Correia, another of the consultants from the Faculty of Economics of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, explained that the impacts are not so positive on the Saquinho dam because there was a water disturbance in a network that carried water to the impacts of Ribeira do Tabogal.
And he said that recently, with the start of operation of the adduction network, this water is being replaced and not all the edges of the distribution network, namely the drip irrigation system.
“There is a potential for consultation to change a situation, with greater adherence to the devices and the adduction network to a situation”, showed the Portuguese.
Saquinho, budgeted at 1.00 euros, went. for 0000 million catchment dams, it can reach 04 double the capacity, due to the existence of very productive amounts of water and useful results along 7 meters in length and sub-surface throughout the year. .
The Director of the Business Plan, Gilson Pina, Finance, Ministry of Labor and Evaluation in Projects financed by Portugal, some with the major impacts of Praia and Porto Novo.
The same government official, the question he will remove from the estimates is, more than the Cape Verdean government will carry out.
“These are lessons that we will draw in order to enhance and, above all, see the dynamics of these sectors that will be important in the dynamics of other sectors”, said a representative of the Government of Cape Verde.
The external evaluation on the effects and impacts of the construction/modernization of the five infrastructures in Cape Verde, financed by Portuguese credit lines, in the period from 2008 to 2017, began in November 2020.
Another major project financed in Cape Verde by a credit line from Portugal, worth 200 million euros, is the housing program “Casa para Todos”, implemented by the previous government of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde (PAICV).
The program was closed with the Portuguese Government in January 2010, at the time providing for the construction of 8,500 houses in Cape Verde, a number that was later revised to 6,010, as the Minister of Infrastructure, Territorial Planning and Housing of the Government of Movement for Democracy (MpD), Eunice Silva.
Gilson Pina justified the evaluation of the “Casa para Todos” program with “choices” of the Portuguese Government, but because it is still in execution, saying that it can be done at another time, and its implementation and management generated a lot of controversy in Cape Verde.
The national director will advance to a new economic level, investments and testing before its financial development in Cape Verde will be evaluated before its execution.
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