Objective: Livelihoods, food and nutrition security of vulnerable households is protected by anticipating the occurrence and impacts of shocks though harmonised triggers, jointly agreed actions and coordinated implementation frameworks.

Duration: 2022 - 2024

Donor: European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) 

Description: The long-term goal of the Action is to reduce the impact of climate induced shocks on food security, lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable populations in the region through focused capacity-building activities targeted at key DRM stakeholders and institutions at the regional levels, including national, district and community levels in two selected pilot countries, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, in order to enable them to implement anticipatory actions (AA) with the existing early warning systems and other impact-based forecasting information. The Action will also ensure the generation of rigorous evidence for anticipatory actions, which will contribute to stronger programme design and advocacy material

Objective: The ACP MEAs 3 programme has the overall goal to promote environmental sustainability in ACP countries by strengthening environmental governance and the implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs).

Duration: 2019 - 2024 

Project code: GCP/GLO/006/EC

Donor: European Union (EU) 

Description: The programme promotes environmental sustainability in ACP countries by strengthening environmental governance and the implementation of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs). The target MEAs are the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS) and indirectly to the United Nations Convention to Combat Dissertification (UCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The programme promotes ecosystem-based best practices and approaches for agriculture and the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity that ensure environmental sustainability while increasing productivity. 

Objective: To facilitate a more inclusive and bottom-up approach to Anticipatory Action programming by reflecting the perspectives and priorities of at-risk and affected populations, including particularly vulnerable groups, in the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of Anticipatory Action.

Duration: 2022 - 2024

Project code: OSRO/GLO/211/USA

Donor: United States Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)

Description: The project will expand and strengthen the scope, minimum standards, and guidance on modalities for community engagement in AA – both in FAO and among its partners and stakeholders.

Objectives: Raise awareness and educate the population, professionals and policy makers on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Improving understanding of the AMR burden and antimicrobial use patterns through surveillance. Reduce the need for antimicrobials by improving infection prevention and control, farm practices and biosecurity, water sanitation and hygiene, and immunisation. Improve controlled access and optimise the use of antimicrobials in humans and animals Sustainable investment into AMR and research into alternatives to antimicrobials.           

Duration: 2021 – 2024

Project code: UNJP/ZIM/034/UNJ

Donor: Fleming Fund (UNDP Administered Donor Joint Trust Fund) 

Objective: To contribute to the well-being of households in vulnerable situations in the face of economic and climate induced shocks and stresses in Zimbabwe

Duration: 2021 - 2024

Project code: UNJP/ZIM/033/EC 

Description: The project focuses on agriculture, nutrition and WASH interventions coupled with early warning anticipatory actions to protect lives and productive assets against the impact of economic and climate hazards. The project is implemented in six districts in the Matabeleland South province. FAO and UNICEF integrate interventions with the aim of contributing to the well-being of households in vulnerable situations in the face of economic and climate induced shocks and stresses in Zimbabwe. The strategy is to assist vulnerable households in recovering farming and livestock activities. A strong focus on adopting principals of agro-ecology is part of the intervention, together with improving farmer access to markets for livestock and other agricultural produces. Incorporating community Water and Sanitation Hygiene interventions which are adapted to the local context will support sustainable pathways to resilient livelihoods.

Objective: The overall objective of the project is to contribute to poverty reduction, jobs creation, food and nutrition security by improving the economic, social and environmental sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture value chains in ACP countries.

Duration: 2020 - 2025 

Project code: GCP/GLO/028/EC

Donor: European Union

Description: FISH4ACP aims to tackle some of the underlying challenges in building sustainable fisheries and aquaculture. These include low economic performance, limited market access and poor social and environmental sustainability. The programme is focused on enhancing the productivity and competitiveness of value chains, while ensuring that economic improvements go hand in hand with environmental sustainability and social inclusiveness. It will pay special attention to small and medium-sized businesses; because of their potential to stimulate inclusive growth and bolster food security, particularly those for women and young people.

Objective: Contribute to achieving the SDGs by reducing rural poverty, addressing youth employment issues, climate change, and strengthening local food systems through providing green jobs opportunities in rural areas and agricultural sectors to young people

Duration: 2019 – 2024

Project code: GCP/INT/390/ROK  

Donors: Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) 

Short Description: The FAO Green Jobs for Rural Youth Employment project (GJ4RYE), funded by KOICA, aims to promote approaches that create green job opportunities for rural youths. The project utilizes a strategy that provides youths with transferable and valuable soft and sector-specific skills in the green agriculture and economy sectors. These skills include problem identification and solving, business literacy, communication, teamwork and technical skills. In addition to these skills, youths are provided with two-year support through business mentorship and seed money for their green business start-ups or waged employment opportunities in green Public Employment Programmes (PEPs). Creating green jobs in agriculture can contribute to social, economic, and environmental sustainability through innovative solutions such as agroforestry, agroecology, climate-smart agriculture, and bioenergy. These emerging sectors provide opportunities for rural communities and youth to contribute to the transition towards a just and green economy.

Objective: To reduce poverty and hunger among selected smallholder farmers through effective market participation

Duration: 2021 – 2024

Project code: GCP/ZIM/036/UAE

Donor: United Arab Emirates Aid

Short Description: The project will enable the establishment of a pilot smallholder out-grower model. The model will be scalable and replicable in other micro-regions. An out-grower model hosted by an ARDA estate serving as the nucleus farm, will be developed. Smallholder farmers will be supported to commercially produce the selected horticultural fresh produce for both local and export markets. Value added products will be promoted for export, thus the initiative will support agro-processing, linking farmers to processing technologies and equipment.

Objective: Contribute to increased resilience to livestock diseases for vulnerable livestock dependent households in Zimbabwe

Duration: 2022 - 2024 

Project code: OSRO/ZIM/041/USA

Donor: United States Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)

Description: 

The overall objective of the project is to improve household resilience to 'shocks’ by protecting their livestock assets. This will be achieved through a combination of disease management and control measures (to mitigate the impact of Foot and Mouth Disease & Tick-borne diseases) as well as enhancing feed and nutrition of livestock to improve resistance to disease. The project will complement efforts of the Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) in animal disease control for communities in selected districts which indicate substantial risk in relation to the animal diseases stated above. Historically women and youths have been shown to face barriers in accessing social protection schemes hindering their capacity to utilize these. The project is going to make special emphasis in the inclusion of women and youths making sure that they are at least 50 percent of direct beneficiaries in all selected interventions.

Objective: To create an enabling environment to enhance an inclusive green production and green marketing of soyabean

Duration: 2023 - 2025 

Project code: TCP/ZIM/3906

Description: One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) is a programme launched by FAO to promote at global, regional and local levels the Special Agricultural Products with unique qualities and special characteristics that can contribute to the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind. In placing the production, distribution and marketing models of smallholders and family farming at the centre of interventions, the OCOP helps countries leverage their potential and identify the Special Agricultural Products adapted to their agroecological production systems and national or cultural heritage, ensuring improved access to stable markets and acting as a key entry point for reaching their defined priorities. The project will support countries in enhancing food production efficiency, reducing environmental and social impacts, maximizing benefits for farmers and food value chain actors, and promoting diversified food habits for improved food security and nutrition.

Objective: The projected impact of drought and associated shocks on crop and animal production and associated livelihoods among vulnerable farmers is mitigated

Duration: 2023 - 2024

Description: The project aims to mitigate the impacts of the forecast drought by protecting productive assets, including crops and livestock of vulnerable households in Beitbridge, Gwanda and Matobo districts.  The targeted farmers will be supported with a composite package of inputs, tools and training in regenerative agricultural practices and water harvesting techniques. The project will collaborate with the Scaling-up Early Warning Early Action (EWEA) for agriculture and the “Enhanced Resilience for Vulnerable Households in Zimbabwe (ERVHIZ)” project to support delivery of rehabilitation of water points and farmers trainings in regenerative agricultural practices. Early warning messages will be disseminated covering the three districts in all the areas reached by the two community radio stations. In addition, the project will support the procurement and distribution of drought-tolerant seeds, organic enhanced basal fertilizer and tools to 1,000 households. Finally, the project will support 1,000 farmers with feed and nutrition interventions for livestock.

Objective: To provide technical support to: Build the capacity of the government in implementation of activities contributing to benefits accruing from payment for ecosystem services, climate change adaptation and mitigation. Develop the country’s capacity in the use of Open forest tools to generate more reliable information for decision-making. Establish/update database and come up with emission factors. Develop Forest (Reference) emission level for the country.

Duration: 2023 - 2025 

Project code: TCP/ZIM/3903

Objective: To support the Government of Zimbabwe and other key stakeholders in the agricultural and food security sector on ways to use timely information to detect, anticipate, respond, and monitor a variety of hazards in an effective, efficient and coordinated manner

Duration: 2023 - 2024

Project code: TCP/ZIM/3905/C4

Description: The project will enhance early warning and anticipatory action information systems for shocks and hazards, (cyclones, droughts, floods, crop pests and livestock diseases), including strengthened social protection systems that are shock responsive and adaptive

Objective: To improve coordination of food systems development initiatives in Zimbabwe

Duration: 2023 - 2025

Project code: TCP/ZIM/3904/C3

Description: The Technical Cooperation Programme is meant to support delivery of the Country Programme Framework, with emphasis on pillar 1 which focuses on the Promotion of inclusive and sustainable agri-food systems to address food security and nutrition. The TCP will set the scene towards the (re)-building strong and robust multi-stakeholder facilitation platforms, to drive the development of inclusive, resilient and sustainable food systems in Zimbabwe.

Objective: To maximize the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of GEF-7 investments in sustainable drylands management to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality. 

Duration: 2021 - 2026

Project code: GCP/GLO/980/GFF

Donor: Global Environmental Facility (GEF) 

Description: The program is fostering resilience of agro-ecological systems and forests in three geographic clusters of drylands: Miombo/Mopane of Southern Africa, Savannas of East and West Africa, and temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands of Central Asia. Designed to deliver scalability beyond the boundaries of the 11 targeted countries, this intervention places a particular emphasis on common management challenges, recognizing the importance of transboundary commitment towards dryland restoration, landscape management at scale, and biodiversity conservation. 

Objectives: To contribute to the conservation of wildlife and ecosystems and their services, as well as to the improvement of the living conditions and food security of the populations dependent on these resources in ACP countries.

Duration: 2018 - 2024

Donor: European Union (EU) 

Description: The Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme is a major international initiative that aims to improve wildlife conservation and food security. We are developing innovative, collaborative and scalable new approaches to conserve wild animals and protect ecosystems, whilst at the same time improving the livelihoods of indigenous peoples and rural communities who depend on these resources.

Objective: Green Cities Initiative aims at improving the livelihoods and well-being of urban and peri-urban populations 

Duration: 2022 - 2024

Project code: TCP/ZIM/3902/C2 

Description: The Green Cities Initiative (GCI) focuses on improving the urban environment, strengthening urban-rural linkages and the resilience of urban food systems, services and populations to external shocks. By ensuring access to a healthy environment and healthy diets from sustainable agrifood systems, increasing the availability of green spaces through urban and peri-urban forestry, the initiative also contributes to climate change mitigation and adaptation. A "Green Cities Network" will allow cities of all sizes - from small, intermediary and metropolitan cities - to share experiences, best practices, successes and lessons learned, as well as building opportunities for city-to-city cooperation

Objective: To improve the quality of fingerlings supplied in the market

Duration: 2023 - 2025 

Project code: TCP/ZIM/3907

Description: The project will distribute the genetically selected breeds of high performance to arrest high demand and low supply of quality fingerlings in Zimbabwe. To increase the trainer capacitation, which is key to the success, continuity, and cascading of the project to farmers. Thus, the project will promote community participation and gender mainstreaming in the fisheries and aquaculture value chain operations. To enhance public sector compliance with international standards and market requirements relevant to hatchery facilities.

Objective: To strengthen understanding of the local ecosystem and enhanced national capacity to design, plan and deploy digital village services for improved food security and rural transformation.

Duration: 2022 - 2024

Project code: TCP/ZIM//3901/C1

Description: The Digital Villages Initiative (DVI) is an FAO corporate programme aiming to combat hunger, poverty and inequality by fostering digital rural transformation. This is being carried out through the establishment of, or support to 1 000 smart rural villages supplied with the digital services needed for agrifood systems and rural transformation to achieve the SDGs. This is an integrated development vision that enshrines digitalisation at the core of rural transformation and prosperity, addressing on-farm and off-farm socio-economic elements. The Initiative has three pillars:

1. improving productivity through ICT, climate-smart agriculture services, and precision agriculture
2. market linkages and financial services
3. e-health, e-education, and agrotourism bolstered by digital technologies

Objective: To immediately increase food production over the next two years by providing support to farmers with seeds and fertilizer to enable them to produce seed and food crops

Duration: 2022 - 2024

Project code: ITF/ZIM/038/ZIM

Description: The project will be implemented at community and national levels to support farmers and the government to raise food production in the short-term and build food security resilience over the medium to long term. The main objective of the Project is to increase cereal and oil seed production, fertilizer distribution and policy support to mitigate the food crisis and build the resilience of farmers.The project is anchored on four specific objectives:

1. Increase production through the dissemination of improved inputs.
2. Innovative financing for increased access to farm inputs.
3. Improved Agriculture Policies and Institutional Capacity
4. Project Coordination and Management