UNDP with support from a number of bilateral donors have embarked on laying the ground-work for the establishment of the Zimbabwe Resilience-Building Fund. This is an initiative between Government of Zimbabwe and donors which has the overall objective: to contribute to increased capacity of communities to protect development gains in the face of shocks and stresses, enabling them to contribute to the economic growth of Zimbabwe.
The strategy to achieve the set objective is developed around the following four main components:
Setting up an independent base of evidence for programme targeting and policy making (including M&E)
Capacity assessment and building of central and local government partners to improve application of evidence
Setting up of Multi Donor Fund will allow partners to come together around the Resilience Framework and principles to improve adaptive, absorptive and to a certain extent transformative capacities of the targeted communities
Setting up a risk financing mechanism which will provide appropriate, predictable, coordinated and timely response to risk and shocks from a resilience perspective.