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Improving and building on the gains made in Zimbabwe’s education sector is high priority for UNICEF.
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Girls’ education and digital learning
In the 34 schools where the STEM project has been implemented, short term results show that girls are motivated to take up STEM subjects and this was demonstrated during STEM fairs. The fairs provided a platform for pupils to display their innovativeness through STEM projects, representing their creativity, proble...
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UNICEF Zimbabwe – Investment Case 2025 Programme Briefs
A collection of programmatic briefs outlining UNICEF Zimbabwe’s strategic priorities and evidence-based recommendations to advance child rights and well-being if Women and Children in Zimbabwe. These briefs inform, influence, and support policy dialogue, resource mobilization, and collaborative action with governm...
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UNICEF ZIMBABWE ANNUAL REPORT 2024
In 2024, UNICEF Zimbabwe worked hand in hand with the Government, donors, partners, and communities to uphold the rights of children and deliver meaningful results in the face of significant challenges.Government Collaboration: Our work remained closely aligned with Zimbabwe’s National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1...
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Overweight and Obesity
Zimbabwe is committed to reduce malnutrition in all forms, including overweight and obesity, nevertheless current national strategy documents lack overweight and obesity specific targets. The National Health Strategy 2020-2025 and the National Nutrition Strategy 2014-2018 have a nutrition, overweight and obesity f...
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UNICEF and FAWEZI Hand Over 34 Mobile Science Laboratories to Schools in Zimbabwe
Harare, Zimbabwe – 14 March 2025, – In a significant step towards promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education among adolescent girls, UNICEF and the Forum for African Women Educationalists in Zimbabwe (FAWEZI), in partnership with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (Mo...
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Humanitarian Situation Report No.9
Highlights• Zimbabwe is facing one of the worst droughts in 40 years, affecting an estimated 50 per cent of the population (7.6 million people) including 3.5 million children.• According to the 2024 Zimbabwe Livelihoods Assessment Committee (ZimLAC), the prevalence of child wasting increased from 4.1 per cent in 2...
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Harnessing Education’s Power to Preserve Human Agency in the Age of Automation
On this year’s International Day of Education, themed “AI and Education: Preserving Human Agency in a World of Automation,” and as we follow up on the children’s Call-for-Action for an inclusive, quality, and relevant education, we are reminded of the unparalleled power of education to shape the future of our comm...
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Buhera: Textbooks, furniture changes, learning experiences in remote schools
Buhera, Zimbabwe - Chiunga Primary School in Manicaland province’s Buhera district just had 50 pupils learning under trees and three teachers who would scramble for the two available chairs when it opened in 2003. Textbooks were nonexistent, and teachers relied on old lifestyle and fashion magazines to create com...
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Solarisation Project Helps Rural Schools Retain Teachers in Nyanga
Nyanga, Zimbabwe - When Irene Munyengeterwa, a teacher, first arrived at Chidazuru Primary School last year, one goal immediately came to mind. And it had nothing to do with teaching there. “All I wanted to do was leave as soon as possible because of a lack of electricity. Imagine the indignity of going into the c...
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E-Learning passport reshaping dreams in remote areas
Makoni, Zimbabwe - It has been three months since Munashe, a rural Grade Seven pupil, started using the Zimbabwe Learning Passport, and shealready sees herself conquering the world. In the impoverished Manicaland province’s Makoni district, where she resides with her parents, the 12-year-old was accustomed to peop...
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Financial management training empowers headmasters with needed administrative skills
Tawanda Mhosva, the headmaster of Chiutsi Primary School in the remote Buhera district in Manicaland province, wears a broad smile when he talks about how he is now sometimes referred to as “the auditor” by work subordinates and superiors. He attributes the nickname to his fiducial handling of school finances and ...
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Schools launch livelihood projects to ensure continuity of School Feeding Programme
Makoni, Mudzi Zimbabwe, -As soon as schools in Makoni and Mudzi Districts received funds for the School Feeding Programme and rolled it out around January 2024, they set out to establish livelihood projects to ensure that they could continue giving learners hot meals at school far into the future. In partnership w...