An in-depth Study on the impacts of Operation Murambatsvina Property Forty eight percent (48%) of households visited reported that they had incurred losses of property. Health Slightly over 25% of people interviewed attributed the deterioration of health of their loved ones as a direct result of the operation. Food security Approximately, 54% of households sampled claimed that they had become food insecure as a consequence of the Operation. Household safety and security Almost half (44%) of the homesteads reported that household safety and security had been compromised as a result of the operation. Disruption of family unit More than three quarters of the respondents reported losing shelter. Almost 40% of homesteads visited reported that family units had been disrupted as a result of the operation. Mostly children and spouses had been relocated to the rural homesteads or other suburbs, if this was possible. Increased vulnerability for women, children and orphans (OVCs) 35% of the interviewed homesteads acknowledged that women and children had become more vulnerable to abuse as a consequence of the Operation. Furthermore, a high proportion of these were from female-headed households. These findings, as well as the many other findings not summarized here, clearly demonstrated the multiple and severe adverse effect of Operation Murambatsvina on residents of the six areas surveyed, mainly in the high density suburbs. Accordingly, ActionAid International, and its partners, made a number of recommendations for the support and assistance of those affected: Immediate Humanitarian Support 1. Immediate support to restore school attendance to at least 24,332 children recorded in the survey who are not attending school as a direct result of the operation. 2. Medium term measure support to ensure a further 26,244 children do not drop out of school. 3. Direct livelihood restoration support to at least 164,602 households of small traders who lost their livelihoods as a result of the operation. 4. Immediate assessment of people rendered homeless by the operation, where they are, and immediate provision of emergency shelter for this caseload. 5. Immediate targeted food aid to at least 811,899 individuals (139,982 households) affected not in holding camps and churches. 6. Immediate access to ART and quality care for people living with HIV and AIDS and are currently displaced. 7. Targeted support for displaced women headed households to reduce the multiple vulnerabilities that they face. 8. Humanitarian agencies should increase their coverage and scale up their responses to ensure greater and holistic support to the affected households. 3