The 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan for Zimbabwe was
launched today, targeting 5.6 million people with food assistance and support
in the areas of health, water-sanitation-hygiene, education, protection,
nutrition, shelter, and camp coordination and management. The plan requests for
a total of US$715 million from international community.
The Humanitarian Response Plan was signed by the Minister
of Local Government, Public Works, and National Housing, Honorable July Moyo
and the UN Resident Coordinator, Ms. Maria Ribeiro in the presence of His
Excellency President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Government Ministers, WHO and WFP
representatives and the media.
The launch of the Humanitarian Response Plan takes place in
the context of the COVID-19 Virus Pandemic at a time when there are almost one
million infections in the world. In Africa 41 countries had reported a total of
3,664 confirmed cases and 86 deaths. To date, the Ministry of Health and Child
Care in Zimbabwe reported eight confirmed COVID-19 cases including one death,
as well as 233 suspected cases of COVID-19 who tested negative.
The Humanitarian Response Plan will play a key role in
mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and protecting those most
vulnerable in communities in Zimbabwe.
Following the declaration of COVID-19 as a national
disaster by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on 19 March 2020, efforts have been
scaled up to further contain the spread. The United Nations in Zimbabwe have
added immediate complementary interventions to the Humanitarian Response Plan
for 2020, in support of the Zimbabwe COVID-19 Preparedness and Response plan.
The Zimbabwe Humanitarian Response Plan addresses the
increasing vulnerabilities of an estimated seven million people who need
multi-sectoral humanitarian support. Food insecurity remains the major concern
with over 4.3 million people – or 46% of the rural population – requiring
continued assistance.
Since 2019, Zimbabwe has experienced multiple climate and
economic related shocks impacting the lives of many in both rural and urban
communities. Today the COVID-19 Pandemic is the latest shock impacting on the
wellbeing and livelihoods of Zimbabweans.
Urban vulnerability has also been on the increase due to
persistent economic shock, leaving some 2.2 million people food insecure
according to the latest urban Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee
assessment. Those hardest hit have been
forced to resort to negative coping mechanisms, with particularly dangerous
consequences for women and girls who are simply striving to survive.
The Humanitarian Response Plan prioritizes life-saving and
life-sustaining support targeting the people most in need, including residual
humanitarian needs of Cyclone Idai-affected communities and on-going support to
refugees.
The response plan for Zimbabwe will be implemented in
collaboration with 47 operational partners through cluster approach, in which,
of the total USD 715m required: approximately 60% or USD422m planned for food
security; USD 63m for health; USD 61m to
water, sanitation and hygiene; USD 42m to education; USD 21m to protection; USD
18m to nutrition; USD 10m to shelter, and USD 950,000 to camp coordination and
management.
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