- Deploy and Manage COVID-19 Vaccines: Ensuring safe, effective, and equitable vaccine distribution across Zimbabwe.
- Strengthen Health Systems: Implementing climate-friendly health system strengthening activities to support sustainable healthcare delivery.
- Sustain Essential Health Services: Providing comprehensive health services, focusing on maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health.
Vaccine Deployment and Community Engagement
We support the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines that meet World Bank approval criteria, focusing on community engagement and risk communication. Our efforts include capacity building, procurement of necessary equipment, and ensuring that vaccine distribution is efficient and equitable.
Learn more about our vaccine deployment efforts.
Climate-Friendly Health System Strengthening
Our project includes strategic activities to enhance the health system’s capacity sustainably. This involves the use of solar-powered cold chain equipment, improving energy efficiency in health facilities, and integrating innovative digital health solutions.
Discover our climate-friendly initiatives.
Sustaining Essential Health Services
We ensure the continuity of essential health services, particularly for maternal and child health. Our activities include revitalizing maternity waiting homes, enhancing community health services, and integrating outreach service delivery with digital health innovations.
Support essential health services.
The Zimbabwe COVID-19 Emergency Response and Essential Health Services Project (ZCEREHSP) is driven by a comprehensive set of objectives designed to address the immediate and long-term health needs of Zimbabwe’s population. Our mission is to support the Government of Zimbabwe in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic while strengthening the overall health system to ensure sustainable, high-quality healthcare for all.
Objective: To ensure the safe, efficient, and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines across Zimbabwe.
Key Actions:
- Coordinating with national and local health authorities to manage vaccine logistics.
- Enhancing vaccine storage and distribution infrastructure, including cold chain equipment.
- Conducting community engagement and risk communication to promote vaccine acceptance.
- Providing training and capacity building for healthcare workers involved in vaccine administration.
Objective: To improve the resilience and efficiency of Zimbabwe’s health system through climate-friendly and sustainable initiatives.
Key Actions:
- Upgrading health facility infrastructure with climate-resilient and energy-efficient technologies.
- Implementing digital health solutions to enhance healthcare delivery and management.
- Strengthening supply chain management to ensure the availability of essential medical supplies and equipment.
- Supporting policy development and institutional capacity building for sustainable health system management.
Objective: To ensure the continuity of essential health services, with a focus on maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health.
Key Actions:
- Revitalizing and upgrading maternity waiting homes to provide safe, supportive environments for expecting mothers.
- Enhancing community health services through training and deployment of community health workers.
- Integrating outreach service delivery with digital health innovations to reach underserved populations.
- Supporting public health campaigns and health education programs to promote preventive care and healthy behaviors.
