This Project consists in a 2013-2017 socio-economic development plan for a Province in Angola, in line with the Long-term National Strategic Angola 2025. South Lunda is a Province with almost half million inhabitants, is a peripheral region of the country, located on the East side of Angola, on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The field work, carried out by a team from Quaternaire Portugal and Intersismet Consulting (an Angolan partner responsible for coordination the study) and the plan preparation, discussion and approval took place from November until May 2014.

The proposed strategy and action plan is based in two major intervention lines: social and territorial cohesion (there are persistence of social exclusion signals (education, health, housing, employment, etc.) and great social deficits and a huge inequality between municipalities) and competitiveness (conditioned by the hegemonic weight of mining (diamonds) activity, the main formal sector of local economy).