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Highlights
- 7.6 million people (50 per cent of the total population) in the country are facing food insecurity (2024 rural and urban Zimbabwe Livelihoods Assessment Committee (ZimLAC). Further child wasting is worsening from 4.1 per cent to 4.9 per cent in 2023 and 2024, respectively.
- 4 per cent of the enumerated water sources in the country have dried up, and 11 per cent of water points are broken down.
- Since January 2024, a total of 1.7million children aged 6-59 months were screened for wasting and 7,004 children were treated.
- As of July 31, 2024, 263,302 children (130,738 girls, 131,569 boys) received the first dose of measles rubella 1 and 1.7 million people (1.3 million females and 540,990 males) accessed essential primary health care services in UNICEF supported facilities.
- In July 2024, UNICEF provided safe water for drinking and domestic purposes to a total of 36, 702 people including 17,617 children in cholera and drought affected areas.
- The Emergency Social Cash Transfer Programme (ESCT) benefited 19,489 households in six districts, as of July 2024.
Funding Overview and Partnerships
To respond to the humanitarian needs in Zimbabwe, UNICEF is appealing for US$26.8 million in 20241 , to address urgent needs of affected populations. The country is facing multiple hazards, including the El Niño induced drought, protracted cholera outbreak, polio outbreak, economic crisis and is at risk of a monkey pox outbreak. The funding will enable UNICEF to provide critical humanitarian assistance to 2 million people including 978,611 children in the most affected areas. So far, UNICEF Zimbabwe has received a total of US$10.5 million (39 per cent of the total funding requirement) from various donors. These include the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the Government of Japan, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and UNICEF Global Humanitarian Thematic Funds. Funding has also been received through the Health Resilience Fund (HRF) - funded by the European Union, the Governments of Ireland, and the United Kingdom, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Additionally, private sector partners such as Alliance Media and JCDecaux have provided valuable in-kind support through digital billboard space for critical messaging, while Universal Postal Services (UPS) have provided essential cash-in-kind logistics support for essential commodities including intravenous fluids, infusion sets and oral rehydration salts.