ActionAid International Southern Africa Partnership Programme (SAPP-Zimbabwe)
Psychologically affected (traumatised)
Almost 35% of respondents interviewed claimed that they had been
traumatized by the graphic, detailed and heavy handedness of the
implementers of the Operations. From the analysis done, this was generally
the same across board.
Monetary value lost by communities in the studied population
Sample
Projected
From
these
results
almost
population
population
ZW$500 billion
ZW$
ZW$
(US$29,5 million)
Harare
was reported to
Bulawayo
46,381,457,000 185,526,000,000
have been lost as
Mutare
38,748,900,000 154,996,000,000
a direct result of
Kariba
23,702,670,000
94,801,680,000
the operation in
Beitbridge
3,587,700,000
75,341,700,0005
five of the six
Victoria Falls
9,712,700,000
38,850,800,000
urban
centres
Overall
122,132,027,000 488,534,000,000
covered in the
study. This excludes the Harare data, where over 60% of the affected resided.
Furthermore, 30% of the respondents said they were not able to quantify in
dollar terms how much they had lost. Therefore the figures presented here a
just a drop as to exactly quantify the amounts individuals had invested before
the Operation.
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Coping mechanisms adopted by households
Currently, only 49% households reported that they were using their own
resources to sustain the family.
A further 24% claimed to be getting assistance from relatives, whilst
government, community based organizations and non-governmental
organizations accounted for a mere 6%.
Generally all the 5 vulnerable categories scored large proportions in the not
managing response (plus 20%)
Assistance currently being received
Of those that reported receiving assistance from the various sources, the
following categories are the nature of assistance being received; food (18%),
shelter (17%), monetary (7%), education for children (6%), relocation (4%),
psycho-social support (9%) and legal help (4%). This clearly suggests that
there are major gaps in the support that is being offered to the communities.
Due to the sampling of a third, these figures are subsequently multiplied by 3.
Due to problems encountered in sampling we only managed to a small sample as opposed to 1400, only
250 were survey. Therefore this figure was multiplied by 7 then 3.
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