Overviews of humanitarian and early recovery coordination, funding mechanisms and strategies in Zimbabwe

2.3 Needs Assessments

In Zimbabwe, information on coordination and advocacy needs was collected during the last 2 years through regular consultations with partners and various internal and external reviews of ongoing activities, including the following:

Mid Year Review of the Zimbabwe 2010 Consolidated Appeal (June 2010) and Zimbabwe 2011 Consolidated Appeal(September 2010): http://www.humanitarianappeal.net/

Zimbabwe Cholera Response Review Report: December 2009 (OCHA and Oxfam GB) C4 Epidemiological Report: June 2009 (MoHCW)

Evaluation of the Health cluster cholera response: August 2009 (WHO, CEPHI-UoZ)

National Education Advisory Board (NEAB) Rapid Assessment (April/May 2009) http://www.kubatana.net/docs/edutra/educ advisory board rapid assessment 090914.pdf.

Multiple Indicator Monitoring Survey (MIMS) (UNICEF,CSO): http://ochaonline.un.org/Surveys/MIMS2009/tabid/5465/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Zimbabwe Rural Vulnerability Assessment (ZIMVAC) October 2009 (UN, I/NGOs, Government):

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2009.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/MUMA- 7TS4RSfull report.pdf/$File/full report.pdf

1st Round Crop and Livestock assessment Report, February 2010 (Agritex) Joint IDP assessment Report, August 2009 (UN, Government)

Agriculture and Food Security Monitoring System: http://v4.fews.net/docs/Publications/Zimbabwe FSU February2010 final.pdf

The Joint Recovery Opportunities Assessment(JROA) is currently in progress. The 4 Consultants hired by the UNDP are collecting data with regard to past, present and future assessments from various sources (UN Agencies, NGOs, Cluster Coordinators, Donors, GoZ, etc) to identify recovery opportunities. They are making and will continue to make appointments to meet all the stakeholders as per their mandate and TORs.

A Joint concept paper is underway being developed between the Office of the UN Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator and GoZ (MRIIC) to clarify the harmony, understanding and linkage between CAP and Early Recovery.

2.4 Organisation's presence

Currently, the Humanitarian and Early Recovery activities in Zimbabwe cover all the eight Rural Provinces of Zimbabwe as well as the cities of Bulawayo and Harare through UN Agencies and NGO fields presence as well as frequent field missions from Harare to the provincial and districts locations as indicated in the following map¹²

In addition, humanitarian and Early Recovery partners are seeking complementary funding for their core coordination activities and are working through the funding mechanism such as the CAP,UNDAF,CERF etc...

Humanitarian and Early Recovery programmes are currently funded by different donors (multi-donor funding), which ensure that the costs are distributed on the budgeted activities and the different contributions are used to cover these.

The following map updated by OCHA Zimbabwe in April 2010 shows humanitarian organization?s presence with area of intervention in Zimbabwe¹³

12 Source: http://www.hrforumzim.com/zim_map.htm)

13 OCHA Zimbabwe, CAP 2010 Mid Year Review, July 2010

2. 5 Humanitarian and Early Recovery Framework