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A high level delegation from Mozambique is in the Netherlands to discuss flood risk management practices and further co-operation. On 20 March Francisco Pereira (Deputy Minister of Public Works and Housing), and Suzana Saranga (Head of the National Water Directorate) met Royal HaskoningDHV’s experts Katheleen Poels, Michel Tonneijck and Winfried Pietersen.
They discussed topics like Dutch Room-for-the-River concepts, impacts of (physical) interventions, safety standards, inspections, long term scenarios, decision making processes and stakeholder management.
The Mozambican government is very interested in flood risk management as the country experienced massive floods of the Limpopo and Zambezi in January and February. The delegation also paid a short visit to Loevestein Castle situated in the middle of the Room for the River project Munnikenland.
On Friday, March 22 Francisco Pereira will join HRH the Prince of Orange and members of the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in the High Level Forum on Water Co-operation at the heart of the UN’s World Water Day celebrations in The Hague.
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