Full project title:

Building Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Agricultural Livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe

Brief description: 
 

The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), in partnership with UNDP, is implementing a seven-year project, Building the climate resilience for vulnerable agricultural livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe. The objective of the project is to strengthen the resilience of agricultural livelihoods of vulnerable communities, particularly women, in southern Zimbabwe in the face of increasing climate risks and impacts. Green Climate Fund (GFC) resources will leverage GoZ co-financing to overcome technical, financial, institutional, and capacity barriers to enable smallholder farmers, especially women, to: 

1. access sufficient, reliable water sources to enhance agricultural production's climate resilience. 

2. adopt climate-resilient agricultural practices and cropping systems; and 

3. access and utilize climate information to manage climate risk more effectively in rain-fed and irrigated agricultural production.

The project contributes towards GoZ’s achievement of priorities outlined in its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC), climate change plans, and strategies which include the Gender and Climate Change Action Plan.

The project outcome will strengthen the adaptive capacities of vulnerable smallholder farmers, especially women, to climate change-induced impacts on their Agro-ecosystems and livelihoods. Implemented through the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development (MoLAFWRD), the project intervention builds the climate resilience of vulnerable agriculture livelihoods in 15 districts across three provinces of Manicaland, Masvingo and Matabeleland South. The project is targeting 2,302,120 people i.e. 543,620 direct beneficiaries and 1,758,500 indirect beneficiaries.