2.5.1 The direct Beneficiaries of the Humanitarian and
Early Recovery coordination mechanisms in Zimbabwe
The direct beneficiaries are all present and incoming
humanitarian and Early Recovery actors (Governmental line ministries, UN, NGOs,
IOM, Red Cross Movement) at the capital and provincial levels.
The HC /RC trough OCHA and UNDP offices is providing
coordination, advocacy and information management services and act to support
the national governmental actors and the wider humanitarian and early recovery
community. While the intent is to improve the efficiency of the delivery of
humanitarian and early recovery assistance to alleviate the suffering of
vulnerable populations, the direct beneficiaries are the humanitarian community
itself. In Zimbabwe, this includes 70 INGOs, 1,200 NGOs, 11 UN agencies and
four relevant government line ministries as stakeholders14
1. UN agencies for a strengthened and coordinated humanitarian
response.
2. NGOs that are actively involved in humanitarian response as
well as in disaster preparedness and response, both national and
international.
3. Government institutions and departments that are directly
involved in disaster risk reduction - Civil Protection Unit national staff 10,
Provincial and District Civil Protection Committees 10 provinces and 59
districts.
4. Communities in disaster high risk areas e.g. flood and
epidemic prone areas- South East low veld covering Chiredzi, Mwenezi and
Chipinge districts, Matabeleland North province particularly Tsholotsho and
Binga district, Mashonaland Central in Guruve and Centenary districts.
5. Donors, who will receive collated inter-agency information on
the humanitarian and early recovery situation in the country.
Humanitarian organizations and local government structures
(CPU and District Administrators in each district of operations) operating in
Zimbabwe are benefiting directly from strengthened coordination structures and
support. Additionally, the local population in areas assessed to be at high
risk of natural hazards such as floods, cyclones and drought will be direct
recipients of comprehensive cluster disasters response preparedness
programming.
2.5.2 Direct beneficiary identification mechanisms and
criteria
The direct beneficiaries of humanitarian and early recovery?s
coordination mechanisms are identified as those that meet the following
criteria:
International and national humanitarian organisations involved in
the direct implementation of humanitarian activities in Zimbabwe;
Donor governments and organizations that provide or are likely to
provide financial support to humanitarian activities in Zimbabwe;
Government actors that bear primary responsibility for meeting
the assistance and protection needs of vulnerable populations in Zimbabwe;
Actors identified through both HQ and Zimbabwe-based group and
bilateral coordination meetings. Meetings at HQ level -> IASC
Meetings at field level -> HCT and donor meetings; cluster
monthly meetings
Participatory assessments, Interviewing of beneficiaries,
consultations with stakeholders on different levels and in the frame of the
cluster coordination
Establish contacts through the HCT, HC and the IASC Needs
Assessment Framework (NAF)
14 OCHA Zimbabwe Information Management Unit, April,
2010
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