According to the UNDP deputy resident representative in Angola, Gabriel Dava, the United Nations organization has a financial ceiling of 60 million dollars for 2025, with an implementation rate of around 50 percent, with the health sector absorbing a large part of the funding.
"We have the health sector, which absorbs the majority of our funding, through the Global Fund, where we finance interventions in the area of combating HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, as well as in the area of vaccination and the purchase of essential medicines," said the official.
Speaking on the sidelines of a conference on "Multilaterals and Financing for Development", which took place in Luanda, Gabriel Dava also listed UNDP support in the sectors of environment and biodiversity, sustainable energy, agriculture and irrigation.
Dava, who was one of the speakers on a panel on the view of funders at this conference promoted by the magazine Economia & Mercado and the consultancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), also spoke about the constraints caused by bureaucratic issues in the implementation of some projects.
For the official, bureaucracy in administrative processes is necessary, but he noted that there are situations in which communication between two ministries for the approval of projects "can take between three and four months".
In any case, "the UNDP, as a development agency, has the role of working with the Government to help overcome these constraints", he told Lusa.
The official also defended the need for the Angolan authorities to regularly monitor projects financed by multilateral organisations, noting that monitoring cannot be done solely by the funder.
The UNDP "monitors the projects, as does the World Bank, but we believe that, above all, it is the Angolan State that should monitor them, because these projects [financed by multilateral organizations] are to benefit the Angolan people," he noted.
According to the UNDP deputy resident representative in Angola, it is important for the authorities to strengthen their monitoring capacity to verify whether the financing of the projects meets the intended objectives.
