OCHA Reports

10 Dec 2011
More than one in ten people will need food aid next year

The UN and aid agencies appealed today for US$268 million to help feed 1.5 million people in Zimbabwe next year, as well as to address other urgent humanitarian needs.

More than one in ten Zimbabweans will need food assistance in the first half of the year, and one million children under-five are at risk of malnutrition, according to the Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) launched in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare.

A...

04 Dec 2011
RIACSO Report on SADC DRR and Preparedness Consultative Workshop Seychelles, 10-14 October 2011

Emergency Preparedness and Response Summary Outcomes

Recommendations

Early warning

  • Countries should share their monthly meteorological updates (where available), as well as hydrological information, with the SADC DRR Unit for posting on its website to assist neighboring countries in understanding developments that may affect them.

  • The SADC Secretariat should advocate for the formalization of information sharing protocols on...

30 Nov 2011
Consolidated Appeal 2012 for Zimbabwe
  1. Executive Summary

The humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe continues to be stable but fragile due to many factors. The main humanitarian needs in Zimbabwe relate to food security, the continued threat of disease outbreaks, and requirements relating to specific needs of a wide range of highly vulnerable groups, such as child- or female-headed households, the chronically ill, internally displaced people (IDPs), returned migrants, and refugees and asylum-...

22 Nov 2011
Monthly Humanitarian Update - October 2011

I. Key Points

  • Funding worth US$ 42 million immediately needed to assist food insecure people;

  • Typhoid outbreak: trend of increased cases;

  • Deportees continue to arrive from Botswana and South Africa;

  • Education and health transition funds launched;

  • CAP for Zimbabwe funded at 46 percent.

25 Oct 2011
Monthly Humanitarian Update - September 2011

Key Points

 Food security is a concern according to the findings of the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee survey in rural areas;

 Resumption of the deportation of irregular Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa;

 CERF allocated six million USD to support under-funded programmes in the Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for Zimbabwe;

 2011 Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) for Zimbabwe funded at 43 per cent.