ActionAid Zimbabwe

17/09/2026

Day 4 : The Numbers Don't Lie - Debt is Fuelling the Climate Crisis

Yesterday ActionAid released shocking new data from our report "Debt Fuels the Climate Crisis: How Finance Flows" – and the injustice is stark. The global finance system is flowing in the WRONG direction.
📊 Key findings:
🔴 The Global South is paying 225 TIMES MORE in debt repayments than it receives in climate finance grants.
🔴 In 2026 alone, the Global South will pay USD 8.8 TRILLION in debt repayments – swallowing up 43.5% of all budget revenues. The worst debt crisis ever recorded.
🔴 Meanwhile, the Global North provided only USD 39 BILLION in grant-based climate finance in 2024.
Countries that have done the LEAST to cause the climate crisis are being forced to finance those who have done the MOST.

This is why we say: Fixing the debt crisis IS climate action. Cancelling unjust debt could be one of the most impactful and achievable climate solutions available.We cannot talk about climate justice without talking about debt justice.

Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/dY9xVUzc

16/09/2026

Day 3
Join Us Today!
ActionAid Zimbabwe joins a critical global conversation today – Wednesday 16 September 1300hrs - 1430hrs CEST
ActionAid will be releasing shocking new data showing how debt is a major – but fixable – barrier to climate action. Addressing the sovereign debt crisis could be one of the most impactful and achievable climate solutions available.
Join us as we launch our new report: “Debt Fuels the Climate Crisis: How the finance flows” during the .
Speakers:
David Archer & Teresa Anderson (ActionAid), Tasneem Essop (CAN), Mae Buenaventura (APMDD) and Mariana Paoli (Oxfam).

Register here to join us: https://lnkd.in/duP-DtRu

16/09/2026

🌍💰 WHO IS FOLLOWING THE CLIMATE MONEY?

🚨 Introducing our new project: Follow the Climate Money — Enhancing Finance Accountability and Resource Justice in Zimbabwe.

Climate finance is flowing into Zimbabwe. But where is the money going? Who decides? Who benefits? And what difference is it making in communities facing the impacts of climate change?

Through Follow the Climate Money, Youth Accountability Initiative will strengthen public finance accountability, natural resource governance, citizen participation and resource justice around climate and development financing in Zimbabwe.

Follow the money. Track the impact. Demand climate justice.

Supported by ActionAid

TrustAfricaEmbassy of Ireland, PretoriaKofi Annan FoundationHivos Regional Office Southern AfricaOpen Society FoundationsEmbassy of Switzerland to Malawi, Zambia and ZimbabweHivos

15/09/2026

Day 2 of the is about people-led solutions
As part of the & Climate Justice Campaign, communities of Nzvimbe Ward 31, Nyazura Local Rights Programme in Makoni District, Manicaland, recently came together for a community-based tree planting and climate awareness activity at their Nyakasikana community garden.
Working alongside Agricultural Business Advisory Officers (formerly Agricultural Extension Officers), community members planted fruit trees as practical climate action to restore degraded land, strengthen climate-resilient food production, and improve nutrition security.
The community is calling for:
• Investment in resilient, sustainable agriculture and agroecology
• Support for community-led adaptation, not false solutions
• Climate finance that reaches women, youth and frontline communities.
Climate change continues to drive environmental degradation, food insecurity and deepening inequalities. Communities are showing the way forward.
Now duty-bearers must and .
At ActionAid Zimbabwe, we believe that lasting climate solutions must be led by communities themselves, especially women and young people living on the frontlines of the crisis.
ActionAid

14/09/2026

Today marks the start of our

From 14 to 20 September, we join partners, frontline groups in Zimbabwe and worldwide to demand justice for that hardest hit by the climate crisis.
Our call to action is clear:
Communities that contributed least to climate change bear the heaviest burdens. Mining-affected communities carry a double burden: climate impacts alongside land degradation, water loss, and health harms from resource extraction.
This is especially urgent for “green minerals” like lithium and copper, meant to power a just transition. The transition ceases to be just when communities face displacement and pollution for the sake of global decarbonisation.
We stand in solidarity to say:
ActionAid

12/09/2026

From 14-20 September 2026, we are joining communities around the world for the Global Week of Action... Stand with us, add your voice and get involved as we unite to call for justice. ActionAid

11/09/2026

Community Voices Shaping Our Future: Participatory Reflection Processes Underway Across Zimbabwe.

This week, ActionAid Zimbabwe and our partners are conducting Participatory Review and Reflection Processes (PRRPs) across our Local Rights Programmes in Zimbabwe.
These processes have been a cornerstone of our work, ensuring that the voices of communities, especially women, youth and marginalised groups, are at the heart of our planning and decision making. The insights gained will directly shape our 2027 programming, guiding us toward more impactful, accountable and sustainable interventions.

As we listened and reflected with communities, our teams also witnessed firsthand the lasting impact of this community led approach. In the Chipinge Local Rights Programme, ActionAid Zimbabwe in partnership with Jekesa Pfungwa Vulingqondo, has supported the renovation of classroom blocks and the provision of furniture to improve the learning environment for pupils.
The team in Chipinge was in Ward 1 at Maunganidze Primary School, where we visited two completed classroom blocks. Our support included painting of both blocks, provision of student desks and classroom furniture, teachers’ furniture, and installation of chalkboards in both classrooms.
This builds on our longstanding partnership with the school. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, ActionAid Zimbabwe also supported Maunganidze Primary by repairing and roofing a classroom block whose roof had been blown off.
Accountability to communities means planning with them, not for them. Thank you to all community members, leaders and partners who are shaping what comes next.

10/09/2026

Breaking Barriers: Disability-Friendly SRHR Support for Young Women and Girls in Hopley

Thirty-four young women and girls with disabilities participated in a disability-friendly menstrual hygiene and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) training at Tariro Clinic in Hopley on Tuesday this week.

Delivered in an accessible and inclusive format, the sessions created a safe, supportive space where participants could openly share experiences, ask questions, and build the confidence to claim their rights as changemakers in their communities.

The training aimed to:
• Provide menstrual hygiene education tailored to the specific needs of young women and girls with disabilities
• Spark dialogue on the intersection of disability, gender, and access to SRHR
• Strengthen confidence through peer learning and access to accurate, stigma-free information.

In Hopley, an urban informal settlement, young women and girls already face limited access to education, economic opportunities, and essential services, alongside heightened risks of Gender-Based Violence. For those living with disabilities, these barriers are compounded by inaccessible information and services.

The ActionAid Zimbabwe Girl Supporter project, with support from ActionAid Sweden is tackling these inequalities head-on through inclusive, rights-based programming.
Each participant received a dignity kit with a bucket, towel, bathing soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, sanitary pads, undergarments, and washing soap. Beyond meeting practical needs, the kits help reduce period poverty and normalise menstruation as a healthy, natural process.

At Actionaid Zimbabwe, we believe disability inclusion is not an add-on, it is central to justice. Every girl and young woman deserves dignity, accessible information, and health services that leave no one behind.

09/09/2026

09/09/2026

Strengthening Partnerships for Responsible Trade and Sustainable Investment in Zimbabwe

ActionAid Zimbabwe recently paid a courtesy visit to the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Zimbabwe.
We were pleased to engage with H.E. Matthijs van Eeuwen, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Zimbabwe, and the Embassy team at the start of an important new initiative. The project entitled “Improving the Black Granite Supply Chain from the Netherlands to Zimbabwe”, will be implemented in Mutoko and Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe, focusing on strengthening the black granite value chain and fostering sustainable economic linkages between Zimbabwe and the Netherlands.

The initiative is supported by the Government of the Netherlands through ActionAid Netherlands under the Fund for Responsible Business.
The engagement provided a valuable platform to exchange perspectives on shared priorities, including responsible business practices, sustainable investment, and opportunities for inclusive economic development.

We greatly valued the constructive exchange on the Embassy’s priorities and the opportunity to share insights from ActionAid Zimbabwe’s work. Such engagements are important in building stronger partnerships that connect responsible trade and investment with sustainable development and tangible benefits for communities.

We look forward to continued dialogue and collaboration.

Embassy of the Netherlands in Zimbabwe