1.5 Humanitarian and Early Recovery Strategy
The Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) is a planning and
resource mobilization tool primarily for emergency response in Zimbabwe. As in
other countries, it is issued at the beginning of the year and reviewed in June
in order to accommodate any changes in the humanitarian situation.
The CAP 2010 continues to be aligned with the priorities of
the Government?s Short-Term Economic Recovery Programme (STERP) and includes
early recovery and «humanitarian plus» interventions. The CAP 2011
will also focus on early recovery activities to reflect the change in the
situation of the country and more synchronisation will be made between
short-term humanitarian interventions and medium and long-term plans by
Government and other development actors. The envisaged activities are recovery
in nature, but in the context of Zimbabwe are considered time-critical and
life-saving, such as repairs to water and sanitation systems, food for assets,
inputs for assets, strengthening of health systems.
Humanitarian partners have observed the international
community?s increased engagement on recovery and transition planning allowing
for continued «humanitarian plus» activities into 2010.With a
continued mission to assist the most vulnerable in the country, humanitarian
and Early Recovery partners in Zimbabwe have identified the following strategic
objectives as a priority for 2011:
Save & prevent loss of lives, as well as prevent depletion of
productive household assets by providing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable
groups (Agriculture)
Support restoration of livelihoods/food security; prevent
depletion of productive household assets in crisis situation & support
early recovery (Food)
Integration of humanitarian response into recovery and
development action (Health)
Advocate for and work with authorities, communities and
individuals to promote a protective environment and sustainable solutions with
particular attention to women, men, girls, boys, displaced populations and
other individuals with specific needs (Protection)
Strengthen national and sub-national level capacity to
coordinate, deliver, and monitor near to medium term interventions that save
and prevent loss of life in vulnerable populations. (Nutrition)
Support transition and strengthen capacity at national &
local level for coordinating and implementing essential recovery activities
incorporating disaster risk reduction and sustainability frameworks
Support transition from humanitarian to recovery especially
through promoting institutional capacity and sustainable livelihoods, whilst
retaining the ability to respond to unforeseen events
The main outcomes of the CAP 2011 workshop are:
1. More focus will be put on early recovery interventions in
view of the transition nature of the needs in Zimbabwe
2. Clusters will become more proactive in engaging
development forums when devising humanitarian response strategies and plans
with the objective of moving into a multi-sectoral approach to addressing
needs, and to ensure there is a synergy between humanitarian activities and
recovery/development efforts
3. The «project-based» approach will be replaced with
a more strategic « programme-based» approach to ensure priority needs
are addressed and to allow for effective monitoring of gaps in response
4. The Gender-marker will be an integral part of programme
selection and prioritisation criteria
1.6 Other Strategies
The Medium Term Plan (MTP), the overall anchor of economic
policy in the next five years (2010-2015), is awaiting cabinet approval before
being launched. MTP targets Gross Domestic Product of US$9 billion by the end
of 2015 while anticipating double-digit GDP growth rates of an average 15% over
the five-year period. According to the Ministry of Finance, the MTP would deal
with broad developmental and growth oriented policies while the Three-Year
Macro-economic Policy and Budgetary Framework (STERP II) would lay out
macro-economic policy instruments that would anchor rolling budgets from
2010-2012. The MTP would dovetail with STERP II which was launched last year
and targets a GDP of US$5.6 billion in 2010, US$5.9 billion in 2011 and US$6.3
billion in 2012.
The current Zimbabwe United Nations Development Assistance
Framework ZUNDAF (2007-11) was done without a CCA as the political situation
did not allow the preparation of the CCA to inform the ZUNDAF. For the Zimbabwe
UN Country Team, ZUNDAF activities that started in 2007 at the beginning of the
current ZUNDAF continue to be implemented where possible. Following the
formation of Government of National Unity (GNU), a review of ZUNDAF was done in
2009 and agreement reached that the GNU would continue with the current ZUNDAF.
For the UNCT, government decision to continue with the ZUNDAF meant that there
would be no need to prepare a new document neither was it necessary to prepare
an addendum to the ZUNDAF, but to simply align Annual Work Plans with the
identified government priorities. The UNCT is
currently in the process of preparing the next ZUNDAF (2012-2015)
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