Menongue – Angolan Executive announced Thursday in Menongue, south-east Cuando Cubango, plans to register and formalise 200,000 informal entrepreneurs across the country this year.
The government also spoke of plans to provide for the creation and revive 100,000 accounts in the mobile phone digital payment system.
The information is contained in the final communiqué of the Local Governance Council meeting, chaired by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço on Thursday in the region.
The communiqué states that the Ex-officio electoral registration process in the country and abroad continues normally, despite some logistical and technical constraints.
The government said that there is a considerable number of adults who need to update the voter registration, but it would not specify the figure.
The document read by the minister of Territory Administration, Marcy Lopes, indicates that of the 1,932 projects of the Integrated Plan for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM), 60 percent are in execution.
It reports that between 2019 and 2022, 64,903 citizens were integrated into income-generating activities, 15,826 women were empowered and more than 2,600 community agents were trained.
Support was also provided to 239 farmers with kits of agricultural inputs, as part of combat poverty programme.
The programme to strengthen social protection, Kwenda, has more than 399,000 households validated and 332, 238 social transfers were made.
The Council was informed about the status of projects included in the Road Safety Plan, which consists of rehabilitating sections of the network in a state of degradation to allow greater and better road mobility.
The report indicates that 11,000 homes were built, corresponding to 47.49 percent, within the framework of the sub-programme for the construction of 200 dwellings per municipality.
Approximately 299 million kwanzas were granted in microcredit to 1,328 small entrepreneurs in the sectors of urban solid waste recycling, food processing, logistics and distribution of agri-food and fisheries products.
It includes benefits from cultural and artistic production, products from the Agribusiness chain and software development, in 17 provinces.
