Reports & Resources

CARE ZIMBABWE FY23 ANNUAL REPORT

February 28, 2024

In 2023, CARE International in Zimbabwe (CIZ) achieved remarkable progress in enhancing the lives of women, girls and their communities. Despite facing numerous challenges, including food insecurity and a Cholera outbreak, we remained steadfast in our mission to deliver inclusive, resilient and sustainable solutions to address poverty and injustice. Our efforts were not carried out alone; we joined forces with funding partners, the Government of Zimbabwe, non-government organizations, corporations and the communities themselves. Our reach extended to 164,856 individuals and 64.9% of our program participants were women and girls.

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TAKUNDA/RFSA Community Visioning

August 2, 2023

Community Visioning is a process in which communities work collectively and continually to identify opportunities and a range of possible context-specific solutions they can implement on their own and through collaboration with other external stakeholders.

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Fostering Women’s Participation in Public Spaces Story

August 2, 2023

CARE is working with gender champions to foster women's participation and leadership in public spaces.

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CARE ZIMBABWE FY22 REPORT

July 20, 2023

Overall, from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, CARE Zimbabwe reached a total of 1,262,534 participants, of which 57% were females. CARE Zimbabwe worked in five provinces, implementing programs focused on Gender Equality and Education, Right to Food, Water and Nutrition and Climate Change and Adaptation. We also focused on Health, Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) and Humanitarian responses leveraging on talented staff that advanced development work, research and innovation. Our interventions supported the communities, schools, the government, and other partners to create sustainable, innovative solutions to ensure that marginalized children, especially girls, stay in school; local health systems are strengthened, while supporting livelihoods, to build resilience and alleviate poverty. Our programmes were interwoven with gender transformative approaches that also ensured women have equitable access to, and control over, economic resources, including having the time and opportunity to engage in economic activities.

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Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative: Linking Saving Groups to Adolescents Boys and Girls Economic Empowerment and Education

October 21, 2022

Since 2003, CARE has implemented the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative (PCTFI) to improve access to and quality of education for marginalized girls across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In 2015, CARE expanded PCTFI to a third cohort of countries reaching marginalized adolescents, particularly girls, (aged 10-19) in seven countries: Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and India. This report outlines the learning this multi-country initiative's activities relating to adolescents boys and girls economic empowerment and education.

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Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative: Leadership & Life Skills

October 21, 2022

Since 2003, CARE has implemented the Patsy Collins Trust Fund Initiative (PCTFI) to improve access to and quality of education for marginalized girls across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In 2015, CARE expanded PCTFI to a third cohort of countries reaching marginalized adolescents, particularly girls, (aged 10-19) in seven countries: Cambodia, Kenya, Mali, Nepal, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and India. This report outlines learning from this multi-country initiative from the leadership and life skills related activities.

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Strengthening Opportunities for Adolescent Resilience (SOAR): Impact Brief

March 7, 2021

SOAR is a unique and integrated approach to accelerated education that is designed to enable out-of-school adolescents, in particularly girls, to acquire academic and life skills. The brief elaborates how SOAR is adaptable across context and geographies, and the impact that SOAR has had in South Asia (India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal) and Sub-Saharan Africa (Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Somalia).

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Her Harvest Our Future: Southern Africa Annual Impact Report (2018)

January 18, 2019

Her Harvest, Our Future is an ambitious, radical initiative that tackles the crisis of poverty by improving nutrition and food security across borders and partners in Southern Africa. Our goal is to stimulate lasting changes in 10 million people’s lives by 2020. So far we have achieved 3.6 million towards this target. In this, our second annual report, we will present our achievements across six impact areas. We will explain how we are achieving this change by supporting learning, improving quality and influencing donors and governments to ensure that women small scale farmers benefit from all our investments.

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ENSURE Gender Analysis

November 17, 2015

This 70 page analysis from July 2014 displays the gender dynamics in Zimbabwe as they relate to Food and Nutrition Security. The Gender Analysis research conducted by the ENSURE project provides a strong evidence base for Government and key stakeholders to implement targeted community based interventions aimed at addressing gender disparities that fuel food and nutrition insecurity in Zimbabwe. Although women constitute 61.7 percent of the rural population and 53 percent of the agricultural workforce, they do not have equitable access to key productive assets including land, capital, finance, water and equipment.

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