Informes

The current drought has taken its toll on livestock in Matebeleland South, with an estimated 35 000 head of cattle lost in the past three months alone. This has further depleted the capacity of the affected areas - the hardest…

Matabeleland South Assessment A UN inter-agency team carried out a rapid assessment of the potential gaps in the present response, and of the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance in Matabeleland South from 24th -- 29th March 2003.…

Reporting Period: 20 March - 3 April 2003 PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS (Based on the 10 point outcome objectives of UNICEF response to the humanitarian crisis in Southern Africa) Outcome objective 1: 95% of children immunized against measles and given Vitamin A supplementation A…

There is a need of an entirely new and bold approach to address the intertwined crises of devastating illness and drought affecting agriculture' - Guruve Summary The National NGO Food Security (FOSENET) involves 24 non-governmental organisations that collectively cover ALL districts…

No-one working in the public health, education or social sectors in Zimbabwe in the 1980s would have predicted the breadth and depth of the country.s current humanitarian crisis. At the time of writing this paper, 7, 2 million people…

By George Kararach For the past two years, George Kararach has worked as a consultant policy analyst in Zimbabwe - for the last year working with UNICEF Zimbabwe. The support of UNICEF in preparing this article is gratefully acknowledged. The opinions…

Summary of research1 During the periods 1992-3 and 1995-6, a child supplementary feeding programme (CSFP) was used in Zimbabwe to combat child malnutrition associated with times of drought. Evaluations in the past have concluded that the CSFP was effective in…

Summary The cereal gap for the 2003/04 consumption year in Zimbabwe is forecast to be 561,180 MT, much reduced from the Figure just over 1,400,000MT last year. Zimbabwe finished the 2002/03 consumption year with an overall cereal deficit of approximately 300,000MT. Urban…

By Fiona Watson Fiona has recently been in southern Africa with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), looking at the role of needs assessments during the current crisis The situation in Zimbabwe has spiralled into crisis as a result of complex underlying…

A severe food crisis in southern Africa continues to affect millions of people. Oxfam partner Association of Women's Clubs (AWC) continues to deliver desperately needed food to over 13,000 families (78,000 beneficiaries) in Zimbabwe. According to James Morris, head of…