The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is celebrating the success of its five-year Zimbabwe Agricultural Income and Employment Development (Zim-AIED) program. Since 2010, USAID’s Zim-AIED program has assisted over 140,000 smallholder farmers in 46 dry-land irrigation schemes to increase their incomes and improve food security through agricultural production and commercialization.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is marking the closeout of its four and a half year agricultural competitiveness improvement program in Zimbabwe (Zim-ACP). Between 2010 and 2015, the program assisted 14 Zimbabwean farmers’ organizations to improve their leadership and advocacy skills for the benefit of their members.
To improve nutrition and support rural households in Matabeleland North and South, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing fortified supplementary food to pregnant and lactating women and children under the age of two years. This year alone, USAID has distributed 220 metric tons of supplementary food to 17,000 mothers and children, which is distributed through 56 rural clinics in the two provinces.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the European Union, Hilfwerk Austria, Bio-Innovation Zimbabwe, Kaite Trust, Organic Africa and other stakeholders celebrated a partnership that has led to increased food security and incomes for farmers in dry land areas of Zimbabwe.
The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) Mutare District Medical Office (DMO) celebrated the launch of malaria indoor residual spraying season with partners, including Abt Associates, Inc., Africa Indoor Residual Spraying (AIRS) project and Population Services International, Strengthening Private Sector Services (SPSS).
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