Govt applauds partners for strengthening resilience and food security

Yeukai Karengezeka Herald Correspondent

Authorities has applauded improvement companions which can be complementing its efforts by rolling out resilience and meals safety programmes meant to empower native communities struggling the brunt of local weather change.

In a speech learn on his behalf on the launch of Care Worldwide-driven Takunda Programme by the chief director within the division of Analysis and Specialist Companies Dr Dumisani Kutywayo, Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Growth, everlasting secretary Dr John Basera mentioned:

“The Takunda Programme focus is complementary to the aims of my ministry, particularly the necessity to construct resilience by addressing climate-related challenges; gender, youth and social dynamics, and vitamin,” he mentioned.

The programme, which is a resilience and meals safety exercise is being carried out in two provinces Masvingo (Chivi and Zaka districts) and Manicaland (Mutare and Buhera districts).

Dr Basera mentioned he was hopeful that the programme would generate helpful fashions to be prolonged to different elements of the nation going through related challenges.

He mentioned it was essential to deal with gender disparities affecting girls in agriculture collectively and harness the youth dividend in reworking agriculture and meals methods.

“There’s want for Authorities, along with like-minded organisations such because the consortium implementing the Takunda Programme, to merge efforts to deal with the gender disparities that characterise our agricultural sector.”

Talking on the identical occasion, the Ministry of Girls Affairs, Group, Small and Medium Enterprises, an implementing accomplice represented by director Mr Francis Gondo mentioned the programme dovetails with precedence areas which can be aligned with the ministry’s mandate.

By its Village Financial savings and Loans (VSLA) method, the programme focuses on the influence of local weather change significantly on girls who represent 70 % of small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe who depend on rain-fed agriculture.

CARE Worldwide nation director Mr Patrick Sikana:

“The conversations we’re having immediately are anchored on redefining how we as companions, meaningfully interact girls, not simply as producers of worth however as equal sharers of worth and use the finite sources now we have for larger influence.”

He mentioned Takunda was a multi-sectoral programme that wanted the Authorities’s help in any respect ranges because it seeks to empower native communities.

“The programme builds on the resilience of low-income individuals who could also be chronically affected by climatic and financial shocks by working to attain sustainable and equitable revenue from agriculture manufacturing, enhance off- and non-farm livelihoods and create extra alternatives for income-generating actions,” he mentioned.

Takunda Programme is a USAID-funded partnership with the Meals, Agriculture, and Pure Assets Evaluation Community (FANRPAN), in collaboration with the Agriculture Analysis Council (ARC).