RDRP in Cabo Delgado: our second year in numbers
The Rapid District Resilience Plan has now run in Cabo Delgado for a full second year. Irish Aid has funded the programme since 2021, and it remains our core work in the province. The plan brings together government and local police representatives, civil society, women and youth leaders, academia and traditional and religious leaders in Mueda, Nangade and Macomia to talk through the conflict and agree joint solutions to shared problems.
The numbers for 2022 are in. We held more than 100 focus group discussions across 12 districts and carried out over 250 key informant interviews. More than 2,000 community members joined our dialogues. Out of those conversations came 12 small infrastructure projects chosen by communities: four community centres, the rehabilitation of one school and two new water pumps.
One finding from the year stands out. Poverty and poor living conditions, not ideology, are what drive recruitment into armed groups. Basic services, schooling and work for young people matter more than ever in the districts that saw the worst of the fighting.
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