Improving livelihoods of vulnerable communities
AQZ has mainstreamed WASH activities in all its programs from the realisation that poor health may compromise the gains of development projects. In partnership with the Ministry of Health and Child Care’s Environmental Health Technicians AQZ has rolled out Participatory…
AQZ has mainstreamed WASH activities in all its programs from the realisation that poor health may compromise the gains of development projects. In partnership with the Ministry of Health and Child Care’s Environmental Health Technicians AQZ has rolled out Participatory…
AQZ has collaborated with the Environmental Management Agency, Forestry Commission, Rural District Councils and other development partners in creating awareness on issues of sustainable natural resources management. It has facilitated formation and training of ward based Environmental Committees and Environmental…
AQZ promotes entrepreneurship through linking fish farmers to the input and output markets. AQZ has experience promoting various income generating activities which include but are not limited to indigenous poultry production, beekeeping, horticulture, fruit production in addition to fish production.…
AQZ promotes consumption of fish as an alternative source of animal protein of choice to its program beneficiaries. Healthful eating practices have also been promoted focusing on pregnant and lactating mothers, infants and children under five. Along with fish consumption…
AQZ has distributed cash to over 6000 households in Bikita, Chirumanzu, Masvingo and Mwenezi districts on the WFP Cash transfer programmes in year 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018 and 2019. This was either through mobile platforms or through Cash-In-Transit by a…
AQZ has successfully linked farmers of various crops and livestock with input suppliers and markets. AQZ has also facilitated contract farming arrangements for individuals and groups that are in aquaculture. Not only has these interventions improved productivity, they have also…
AQZ has worked with communities in watershed management activities. This included assessment of the status of the biophysical, socioeconomic and institutional dimensions around the given watershed. After identifying challenges, watershed management plans would be done and implemented to manage/rehabilitate the…
AQZ has experience and capabilities in building resilience to climatic and economic shocks in communities through the creation of productive assets in form of weirs (small dams) integrated with gardens, fish ponds, poultry (broilers, indigenous, pegions), apiculture, fruit production, tree…
Integrated agriculture aquaculture combines at least three agricultural enterprises with aquaculture as its integral part. The integration of agriculture and aquaculture creates a system that produces nutritious food with modest labour demand and also sustains farm productivity year round even…
