United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Director of Southern African Affairs, Bradley Bessire, was in Zimbabwe on a week-long visit to evaluate the scope and severity of the current lean season and El Niño’s impact on food security in Zimbabwe. Mr. Bessire leads a working group in Washington that is coordinating USAID’s response to the effects of El Niño.
Today, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Amalima activity announces its results from its second year of implementation to the Gwanda District Food and Nutrition Security Committee. To improve household food security and nutrition in Matabeleland North and South, the Amalima activity is helping communities improve access to and availability of food, community resilience to shocks, and nutrition and health among mothers and children in Tsholotsho, Gwanda, Mangwe, and Bulilima.
Stephanie Funk was sworn in today as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director to Zimbabwe. Funk assumes leadership over a portfolio of programs to strengthen health services, increase food security, support economic resilience, and promote democratic governance.
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).
Harare, July 8, 2010 – Long-term USAID partner the Africa Centre for Holistic Management (ACHM), based in Matabeleland North Province, was last month named the winner of the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge for devising progressive land management techniques to combat climate change.
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