Reports

Highlights 7.6 million people (50 per cent of the total population) in the country are facing food insecurity (2024 rural and urban Zimbabwe Livelihoods Assessment Committee (ZimLAC). Further child wasting is worsening from 4.1 per cent to…

Harare - The Ministry of Health and Child Care, with the support of the World Health Organization, and other partners has immunized over 200,000 people against cholera in the most vulnerable communities. This campaign has reached…

Highlights The Government of Zimbabwe issued a Flash Appeal to address the El Niño induced drought amounting to US$ 3.9 billion (US$ 2 billion for immediate response and US$1.9 billion for resilience building interventions). The UN Resident Coordinator…

Highlights The Government of Zimbabwe issued an El Niño induced drought flash appeal costed at US$ 3.9 billion (US$ 2 billion for immediate response and US$1.9 billion for resilience building interventions). An inter-agency El Niño induced drought flash…

On 14 May 2024, the wild poliovirus outbreak in Malawi and Mozambique – which paralyzed nine children across the countries between February and August 2022 – was officially stopped. The virus, linked to a strain originally…

Zimbabwe’s activities to improve children’s diet diversity and prevent malnutrition need more funding to be scaled-up Harare, 7 June 2024 – Around 181 million children worldwide under 5 years of age – one in four children –…

UNICEF’s appeal will provide emergency support to 866,000 children Harare, 13 May 2024 – UNICEF is urgently appealing for USD 84.9 million to fund its emergency response aimed at assisting children and women affected by the El…

Climate-induced emergencies like El Nino impact severely on children Harare, 10 May 2024 – As Zimbabwe faces the effects of climate-induced El Niño, UNICEF is taking proactive steps to highlight the profound impact of climate change on…

Part 1: Overview of the Situation Context Overview Zimbabwe is one of the countries in the region’s vulnerable agricultural belt and has frequently experienced the detrimental effects of El Niño in the past from 1982 to the present. El…

Introduction In Zimbabwe, recurrent climatic shocks, including floods and drought worsened by El Niño events, a protracted and deteriorating economic environment, and regular disease outbreaks including typhoid, cholera and measles have left an estimated 2.6 million people,…