OCHA Reports

19 Mar 2012
Zimbabwe: WASH Priorities - Snapshots (as of 8 December 2011)
29 Feb 2012
Monthly Humanitarian Update - January - February 2012

Key Points

  • Zimbabwe’s 2012 CAP only 4 per cent funded.

  • Food assistance partners halve rations to beneficiaries.

  • $19.6 million urgently needed for food assistance programmes.

  • Nearly 50,000 malaria cases and 36 deaths reported in first two months of 2012.

  • Rains, storms damage 115 schools countrywide.

  • Teachers’ strike threatens to reverse education gains.

28 Feb 2012
Emergency Response Fund Update February 2012

ERF News

The Emergency Response Fund (ERF) Advisory Board met on 21 February 2012 and reviewed six projects for funding totalling US$896,103. The meeting chaired by the Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) Mr Alain Noudehou approved project proposals under emergency school repairs addressing three of the provinces that suffered worst storm damage in the current rains seasons, typhoid response in Harare and two in food security covering three worst affected provinces....

23 Jan 2012
Emergency Response Fund (ERF) Zimbabwe Update, Dec 2011/January 2012

ERF News

The Emergency Response Fund (ERF) for Zimbabwe is appealing for US$3.5 million under CAP 2012 to support emergency projects in the country. At the beginning of the year, the ERF has a current balance of approximately US$1.3million.

The ERF funds projects that can be implemented within six months or shorter duration and are responding to priority areas of emergency intervention in line with strategic objectives as set out in CAP 2012.

17 Jan 2012
Monthly Humanitarian Update - November & December 2011

Key Points

  • $268 million 2012 CAP launched for Zimbabwe while 2011 CAP closes at 45.9 per cent funding.

  • $21.4 million urgently needed for food assistance programmes.

  • 149 cases reported in anthrax outbreak affecting humans.

  • Population of refugees and asylum seekers in Zimbabwe shoots to nearly 6,000.

  • More than 10,000 returnees request humanitarian assistance.

I. Situation...