JOHANNESBURG, 1 June 2009: The international humanitarian community has increased its donor appeal for Zimbabwe by over 30 percent to better reflect the depth of need in the ongoing crisis.
“Clearly, significant changes in the country’s political and socio-economic landscape have occurred since January 2009,” the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Zimbabwe, Agostinho Zacarias, said at the launch on 1 June of the revised Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) 2009 in the capital, Harare.
The need to revise the CAP, the most important tool for raising resources for humanitarian action, had become apparent by early March, when the initial appeal for US$550 million had ballooned to around $719 million needed to support the key areas of agriculture, health, education, food aid and safe water.
A country-wide cholera outbreak and a spike in food insecurity during the lean season had “aggravated an already difficult socio-economic environment of hyperinflation and collapsed basic social services,” the CAP said.
Six million people had limited or no access to safe water and sanitation; 1.5 million children required support to access education; 800,000 people were in need of food aid, and 44,000 children younger than five years needed treatment for severe acute malnutrition.
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