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DFID Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe
DFID's Programmes in Zimbabwe
Health and HIV initiatives
Behaviour Change Communications (£20 million)
DFID’s consistent support to HIV and AIDS prevention programme over the last
decade has helped contribute to the slight decline in the numbers of people
living with AIDS. However at 18% the HIV prevalence rate is still one of the
highest in the world. DFID will provide £20 million to a five year behaviour
change programme co-funded with USAID. This funding enables Population Services
International (PSI) to develop communication campaigns to address issues such as
HIV related stigma and multiple partnerships, as well as increasing HIV
prevention services and availability of socially marketed male and female
condoms.
Expanded Support Programme Support for HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe (£18.5
million)
DFID Zimbabwe is supporting the scale up the HIV response including increased
access to Anti-Retroviral Therapy. We will support the Expanded Support
Programme (ESP) for HIV/AIDS, Prevention and Treatment, a multi-donor common
funding mechanism that supports the National Strategy for HIV and AIDS, relies
on UN agencies for implementation, and managed by a working group made up of
government, donors, UN agencies and civil society. The ESP aims to support
universal access by 2010 for all Zimbabweans in need of Anti-Retroviral Therapy
(ART). In the first three years, the beneficiaries of this support will be the
30,000 poor people living with HIV and AIDS who are currently unable to access
ART as well as millions more through inclusive prevention, testing and diagnosis
and safe blood services.
Maternal and Newborn Programme (£25 million)
DFID is working with others to develop a programme to reduce maternal and
infant mortality with other partners. This programme aims to protect the lives
of mothers and newborns, especially those affected by HIV and AIDS and to
maintain access to family planning services, including contraceptives and to
lifesaving obstetric services and newborn care. The programme will build the
evidence base about obstacles to sexual and reproductive care; infant feeding
for HIV exposed babies after 6 months, and will support a national maternal and
perinatal mortality study in Zimbabwe to inform policy options.
Immunisation and Malaria Prevention (£2.67 million)
DFID is committed to supporting the reduction of child mortality. DFID has
provided UNICEF over £2.6 million to combat infectious diseases threatening the
lives of women and children, including the provision of insecticide treated bed
nets to protect against malaria and over £2m to support the national vaccination
programme.
Support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children (£22 million)
Zimbabwe has the highest proportion of children orphaned by AIDS related
deaths in the world. Over 25% of all children have lost one or both parents
(UNICEF 2005). Together with EC, SIDA, GTZ and NZAID we have given £22 million
to a multi-donor programme of support managed by UNICEF to implement the
National Plan of Action in Zimbabwe. This will support orphans and vulnerable
children across the country including support to keep children in school and to
provide protection from all forms of abuse; this will be implemented through
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Food Security
Protracted Relief Programme (£36 million)
The DFID funded Protracted Relief
Programme assists the poorest and most vulnerable households suffering from the
effects of erratic weather, economic decline and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The main
objective is to reduce the need for food aid by increasing food production by
the poorest and also to improve access to water and sanitation, and provide care
to the chronically ill. The programme is reaching over 1.5 million poor and
vulnerable people. The programme has been further extended from 31 July 2007 to
31 March 2008 and the budget has also increased by £6 million from £30 million
to £36 million over three years and eight months. Australian Aid has also
contributed a further AUD$1 million for the extension period increasing the
overall budget to more than £36 million. The design process for phase two of the
same programme is at an advanced stage with the PM expected to be submitted to
the Secretary of State late June. This will be a five year programme starting
from 1 March 2008.
Joint Initiative support to urban poor (£1.1 million)
DFID and other donors
are working with a group of NGOs to address growing urban poverty. The Joint
Initiative is a multi-donor programme targeting over 700,000 urban poor in
Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Masvingo and Gweru. The project ends in November 2000.
The donor group will be assessing the potential for continuing support to urban
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Humanitarian
International Organisation for Migration (£5 million)
DFID Zimbabwe approved
a three year multi-donor programme of support to IOM in a multi-donor framework.
The programme provides emergency assistance (food, non food items, and temporary
shelter) to mobile and vulnerable populations along with humanitarian assistance
to Zimbabwean deportees at the Beitbridge Reception Centre. DFID is also the
only donor supporting the nationwide information campaign on safe migration.
‘Famba Zvakanaka’.
Support to Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (£150,000)
DFID continues to support OCHA for the co-ordination of the humanitarian
response in Zimbabwe.
Emergency Food Appeal (£3 million)
In November last year DFID approved a
contribution of £3,000,000 to help finance the Regional WFP Protracted Relief
and Recovery Programme (PRRO). This will be used to support the WFP Vulnerable
Group Feeding Programme and IOM’s longer term internally displaced people’s’
feeding programme. We are monitoring the current crop situation closely.
Last updated 29 June 2007
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