Grassroots Capacity Building in Dzivarasekwa for Safeguarding Natural & Agro-Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
Grassroots Capacity Building in Dzivarasekwa for Safeguarding Natural & Agro-Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
Dzikwa Trust Fund?s mission is to empower gifted orphans and other vulnerable children through a scholarship for education and general wellbeing, complimented by sports, performing arts and environmental education, as well as reforestation and food security activities.
The annual scope is 400 OVCs.
Dzikwa Trust?s core activities include:
? Full support for basic education and funds permitting all the way to A-levels
? Support for higher education through dedicated sponsorships, apprenticeships, government-to-government scholarships
? Career guidance and mentorships
? Remedial lessons & IT-skills, including ICDL
? Girls? empowerment activities
? Nutrition: daily hot meal from Monday to Saturday
? Health care & Birth certificates, IDs
? Ballgames & Athletics
? Performing Arts training and performance opportunities
? Environmental awareness education & Field trips
? Reforestation & Food security, including tree nursery, tree plantation, orchard, apiary, horticulture,
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Project Snapshot

Grantee:
Dzikwa Trust Fund
Country:
Zimbabwe
Area Of Work:
Biodiversity
Grant Amount:
US$ 50,000.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 13,560.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 3,440.00
Project Number:
ZIM/SGP/OP7/Y2/CORE/BD/2021/03
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
Project Characteristics and Results
Capacity - Building Component
? Succession Planning for project leadership ? Ensure an assistant project manager is trained. ? Selection of influential change Agents from among the community will provide opportunities for continuity. ? Continue with re-forestation initiatives through community representation ? Employment from the community for short contracts ensures ownership of project ? Community involvement at every stage of the project. ? Put in place a project membership committee, this will ensure continuity and ownership ? Charge a forest maintenance fee for the maintenance of the forest to schools who may want to use the cite for education visits. ? Capture and document lessons learnt ? Document training material for knowledge management
Emphasis on Sustainable Livelihoods
Capacity building will inspire the trained change agents to change their attitudes towards biodiversity and environmental conservation in general. It will equip them with skills that they can replicate in their own homes such as growing and using herbs as an alternative to prescribed medicine and using smart climate methods of growing vegetables. Scaling up the project employment opportunities. The feeding program will include fruits on their menu and this will improve the health of the children. The caregivers will have additional income from the leftover garden produce, supplementing their income. The community interaction will also develop a more coherent community which is more empathetic to the needs of others. The project will provide long term alternative livelihood in terms of apiculture, vegetable and herbal gardening. The fruit orchards will provide profitable alternative source of income. Community corporation and collaboration result in productive interaction among the community.
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SGP Country office contact

Ms. Tsitsi Wutawunashe
Phone:
263-4-338846/44
Fax:
(263) 700946
Email:
tsitsi.wutawunashe@undp.org
Luckson Chapungu
Email:
luckson.chapungu@undp.org

Address

P.O. Box 4775
Harare, AFRICAN REGION, 264-4-
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