Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Recovery Programme in the 1990s: an evaluation using household survey data

Munro, Lauchlan T.

doi:10.1016/s0306-9192(03)00050-2

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“…The evaluation method used here is adapted from the World Health Organization's minimum evaluation procedure (WHO, 1985; see Mayne, 2001 for an extension). Originally designed to simplify and make more systematic the evaluation of water and sanitation projects, the procedure can be applied in a wide variety of fields (Munro, 2002 and 2003). The minimum evaluation procedure (MEP) is related to the logical framework for project planning (e.g.…”

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“…The related Child Supplementary Feeding Programme had similar objectives, but covered only young children, for whom malnutrition can have grave and permanent repercussions (Munro, 2002). A secondary concern of DR has been the protection of the asset base of rural smallholder households, though another GOZ programme, the Agricultural Recovery Programme, was the main vehicle for that policy purpose (Munro, 2003). In the absence of commercial crop insurance for smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe in the 1990s, the Drought Relief, Child Supplementary Feeding and the Agricultural Recovery Programmes in effect acted as second‐best policy responses to food security crises in rural Zimbabwe caused by the periodic droughts and exacerbated by the maldistribution of land.…”

Section: Drought Relief In Zimbabwe 1982‐2000mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Zimbabwe's Drought Relief Programme in the 1990s: A Re‐Assessment Using Nationwide Household Survey Data

Munro¹

2006

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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Zimbabwe's Drought Relief Programme was hailed in the 1980s and 1990s as an effective response to a food crisis in a poor country. International observers in particular credited the Programme with preventing famine and protecting livelihoods. Even before the current political turmoil and the ensuing politicisation of Drought Relief that have afflicted Zimbabwe since 2000, Zimbabwean authors were more sceptical about the effectiveness of Drought Relief. Both sides in the debate, however, failed to substantiate their arguments with national household survey data on who got what kind of assistance from Drought Relief, but rather relied on administrative data, qualitative interviews or sub‐national surveys. Drawing its inspiration from WHO's minimum evaluation procedure, this article uses data from four nationwide household surveys in 1992–1993 and 1995–1996 and various definitions of poverty to ask whether Drought Relief provided poor people with relevant, timely and adequate assistance in the 1990s. The analysis suggests that Drought Relief was effective in supporting drought‐affected smallholders during the 1990s. Drought Relief generally had a slight pro‐poor bias. Unfortunately, Drought Relief since 2000 has a very different character.

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Section: Drought Relief In Zimbabwe 1982‐2000mentioning

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Zimbabwe's Drought Relief Programme in the 1990s: A Re‐Assessment Using Nationwide Household Survey Data

Munro¹

2006

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…The most famous were those designed to respond to drought and the costs it imposed on smallholder farming households. This was the origin of the Drought Relief, Child Supplementary Feeding and Agricultural Recovery programmes [Borsotti, 1993;Drèze and Sen, 1989: 146 -52;Hicks, 1993;ILO, 1993;Kaseke et al, 1997;Raftopoulos et al, 1999;Munro, 2001Munro, , 2002aMunro, , 2003Rukuni and Jayne, 1995;Walker and Ncube, 1997]. In response to the 'transitional costs' of structural adjustment [GOZ, 1991], GOZ established a Social Development Fund (SDF) to compensate for increased cost recovery in health and education services, and to retrain retrenched workers [Chisvo and Munro, 1994: 18 -23;ILO, 1993: ch.…”

Section: Poverty and Social Security In Zimbabwe In The 1990smentioning

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A Social Safety Net for the Chronically Poor? Zimbabwe's Public Assistance Programme in the 1990s

Munro

2005

Eur J Dev Res

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The Government of Zimbabwe operated several social safety nets in the 1990s, most of them targeted at households temporarily impoverished through external shocks such as severe drought or economic restructuring. One social safety net was, however, designed specifically to help those who, by reason of age, infirmity, chronic illness or disability and lack of family connections, were chronically poor. This social safety net was called Public Assistance. This paper reviews the performance of Public Assistance and finds it was not effective in supporting those living in chronic poverty. Its disappointing performance record includes low levels of coverage of its target group and inadequate benefits for its clients. The paper examines the reasons for the disappointing performance of Public Assistance, including both programme design problems and the political marginalisation of its clients, and draws out their policy implications.Le gouvernement du Zimbabwe a mis en place un certain nombre de filets de protection dans les années 90, la plupart visaient les ménages temporairement appauvris du fait de chocs externes tels qu'une sécheresse sévère ou une restructuration économique. Un filet social a été conçu spécialement pour aider ceux qui sont chroniquement pauvres du fait de leur âge, d'une infirmité, d'une maladie chronique ou d'un manque de soutien familial. Ce filet social fut baptisé hhAssistance publiqueii.

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“…An agricultural recovery program was implemented to provide mechanized tillage systems and ''crop packs" of seed and fertilizer to drought-affected smallholder farmers (Munro, 2003). The government also put in place efficient systems to manage a national food economy in times of abundance and scarcity.…”

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Assessing the effectiveness of a technical assistance program: The case of maize seed relief to vulnerable households in Zimbabwe

Langyintuo¹,

Setimela²

2009

Food Policy

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Zimbabwe’s Agricultural Recovery Programme in the 1990s: an evaluation using household survey data

Cited by 7 publications

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Zimbabwe's Drought Relief Programme in the 1990s: A Re‐Assessment Using Nationwide Household Survey Data

Zimbabwe's Drought Relief Programme in the 1990s: A Re‐Assessment Using Nationwide Household Survey Data

A Social Safety Net for the Chronically Poor? Zimbabwe's Public Assistance Programme in the 1990s

Assessing the effectiveness of a technical assistance program: The case of maize seed relief to vulnerable households in Zimbabwe

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