The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

Zimbabwe

Key partners

African Development Bank

French Development Agency

Government of Japan

International Fund for Agricultural Development

World Bank

UNOPS in Zimbabwe is helping build the foundations to support the country’s development agenda with a focus on sustainability and national capacity development. In close collaboration with the government, UN organizations, non-governmental organizations and international financial institutions, UNOPS supports disaster recovery and implements infrastructure projects with a focus on resilience and building back better. UNOPS also works with governments to preserve cultural heritage.

Through a range of services – including infrastructure, procurement, financial and human resources management services – UNOPS helps to accelerate the delivery and quality of humanitarian and development projects across the country.

Key Information

  • UNOPS Impact in Zimbabwe

    • Improving livelihoods and food security, as well as access to education, healthcare, and water and sanitation facilities through a range of interventions reaching 770,000 people affected by Cyclone Idai in nine worst-hit districts across three provinces.

    • Supporting the rehabilitation, conservation and sustainable development of the Great Zimbabwe UNESCO World Heritage Site, the largest dry stone structure in sub-Saharan Africa.

    • Managing funds for and coordinating implementing partners of a project designed to provide safe and accessible channels for reporting sexual exploitation and abuse.

  • 4.73%
    Current health expenditure
    Current health expenditure (% of GDP)

    Level of current health expenditure expressed as a percentage of GDP. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year. This indicator does not include capital health expenditures such as buildings, machinery, IT and stocks of vaccines for emergency or outbreaks.

    Source: data.worldbank.org (2020)

    63%
    People using at least basic drinking water services
    People using at least basic drinking water services (% of population)

    The percentage of people using at least basic water services. This indicator encompasses both people using basic water services as well as those using safely managed water services. Read more.

    Source: data.worldbank.org (2020)

  • Contact Details

    UNOPS Zimbabwe

    9 Birchley Avenue, Strathaven

    Harare

    Zimbabwe

    Tel: +263 782 146 424

    Email: info.zim@unops.org

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