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The book is based on Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund data from the Outcome Monitoring Surveys 1,2,3 (OMS123) which comprised of three rounds of panel data set with the same households being interviewed three consecutive times in 18 districts. The OMS1, OMS2 and OMS3 were undertaken in 2019, 2020 and 2021, respectively. The findings in this book demonstrate and provide a better understanding of what works and what does not work to strengthen communities' resilience in Zimbabwe. The information contributed in each chapter will be useful to inform adaptive programming and design of future resilience interventions and policy, with a focus on Climate Resilient Development (CRD). The chapters also address the challenge of formulating concrete policy in an environment with severe data constraints.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Building Resilience To Climate Change In Selected Districts In Zimbabwe Experiences From The Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund Programme.- Chapter 2: Climate Smart Agriculture Practices and Gender Differentiated Food and Income Security Outcomes: Evidence from Zimbabwe.- Chapter 3: Determinants of Household Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers Under Changing Climates And Contexts: A Case of The Zambezi Valley In Zimbabwe.- Chapter 4: Water Based Infrastructure And Resilience In Selected Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (Zrbf) Consortiums In South-Western Zimbabwe.- Chapter 5: Building Asset Stock For Resilience In Vulnerable Communities In Zimbabwe.- Chapter 6: Environmental and Socio-economic Shocks On Smallholder Farmers: Can Resilience Be Achieved Without Livestock In Zimbabwe?.- Chapter 7: Building Resilience Capacities of Vulnerable Rural Farmers: Characteristics And Factors of Sustained Poverty Escapers, Evidence From Zimbabwe.- Chapter 8: Building Household Resilience To The Effects of Climate Change.
About the author
Mhlanga Lindah (Prof.) is an environmental scientist (Biologist) with expertise and experience in freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems in Zimbabwe. Lindah has a strong research background and is experienced in issues of resource use governance and is well versed with governance and policy issues related to natural resources management in Zimbabwe. Through a book that she edited and co-authored (Fragmentation of natural resources management: experiences from Lake Kariba. PLAAS. Lit-Verlag Switzerland) she advocates for an ecosystem approach to natural resource management emphasizing the interrelatedness of the ecological and socio-economic dynamics of natural resources. She actively engaged in the outcome monitoring surveys under the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund project.
Nyikahadzoi Kefasi (Prof.) has a PhD in Applied Social Sciences from the University of Zimbabwe. He is the current Director of the Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development Institute at the University of Zimbabwe. His research interests are in institutional economics, climate change, food security and innovation systems.
Stark Jayne (Dr.) is an Agricultural Economist who has lived and worked in Zimbabwe for over 30 years. Formerly a senior lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Zimbabwe, she currently provides Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning support to resilience -related projects including, the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF, 2018 -2023), a multi - donor program that sought to improve the resilience of about 830 000 people across 18 districts in Zimbabwe. Jayne was the Research and Resilience lead for ZRBF’s Resilience Knowledge Hub and provided thought leadership on resilience approaches and anchored the team's technical thinking on multiple knowledge products and resilience tool kits. During that time she also trained and supported other researchers, including University academics and graduate students, on understanding and analysing ZRBF quantitative and qualitative outcome monitoring data, to help surface evidence and build a repository of actionable learning and capacity building on what matter and works for resilience building.
