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This case study showcases the efforts made under the Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project (ZIRP) to build the resilience of community infrastructure. Tropical cyclone Idai struck eastern Zimbabwe on 15 March 2019, unleashing heavy rains and powerful winds that triggered extensive flooding. The catastrophe led to a significant loss of life and extensive damage to infrastructure, property, crops and livestock, leaving 270,000 individuals in urgent need of humanitarian aid. The Zimbabwe Idai Recovery Project applied a clustered spatial planning approach for building back the community infrastructure, thus ensuring that services were clustered within accessible distances to foster a multiplier effect on community resilience. Click to Read |
