Be Resilient Zimbabwe

As part of Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP), funded by the World Bank and managed by UNOPS, the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa (ROSA) implemented the project ‘Comprehensive Resilience Building in the Chimanimani and Chipinge Districts’. The project has clear synergies with the regional programme ‘Be-Resilient’, which aims to strengthen climate change resilience building and proactive Disaster Risk Reduction in established and proposed UNESCO Biosphere Reserves. This project seeks to reduce the vulnerability of communities in the Chimanimani and Chipinge Districts to natural disasters, such as floods, droughts and landslides; and to enhance water resource management as well as ecosystem services in response to the uncertainty of future climate change.