Zimbabwe - Humanitarian Emergency Assistance to The 2005 Drought Victims

The proposed Bank emergency humanitarian relief assistance projet aims to the alleviation of the suffering of the drought-affected victims in Zimbabwe. It is a Relief food assistance which will be channelled through targeted food distribution to households with insufficient crop production (as a result of insufficient rainfall), as well as those with no livestock or other sources of income (remittances, wage labour, etc) to purchase food and other basic needs; and widows, orphans, female- and elderly-headed households without visible means of survival. This assistance will be specifically targeted to provinces and districts most affected by poor rainfall. The total grant amount will be limited to the approved country ceiling of US$500,000 (five hundred thousand).