Zimbabwe Food Security Evaluation IV: Executive Summary

With funding from the European Union ACF Zimbabwe is implementing a 3 year project in Chpinge District of Zimbabwe whose objective is: To enhance sustainable livelihoods through a coherent range of Food Security, WASH and Nutrition focused interventions for 2,000 food insecure vulnerable households living in the communal areas of Chipinge district. The project is an integrated food security, WASH and nutrition project, and seeks to address basic causes of chronic and acute malnutrition that have been identified through the ACF/UNICEF malnutrition causal analysis framework. The framework takes into account the complex and combined nature of the causes of malnutrition and therefore seeks to address the basic causes of malnutrition by increasing and diversifying food intake and utilization whilst reducing WASH related diseases and improving child feeding and care practices.