Nampula

Nampula is one of northern Mozambique’s largest and fastest-growing urban centres, attracting population from a wide regional hinterland. Rapid expansion has placed pressure on roads, water, sanitation, housing and land administration, particularly in peripheral neighbourhoods where infrastructure and secure tenure have not kept pace with settlement.

The Northern Urban Development Project targets Nampula with investment in roads, water, sanitation, schools, health facilities, resilient housing and land-tenure regularisation. Urban sanitation programmes are also strengthening municipal service capacity. These measures treat infrastructure and land management as part of the same development problem. For Nampula, the central planning task is to guide new growth toward neighbourhoods that can be serviced effectively, rather than allowing unmanaged expansion to deepen existing accessibility and infrastructure deficits.