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Welcome to HIFC Online

The Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC) is a non-profit media development organization that was established in early 2009 to address an urgent need to streamline the flow of information from the humanitarian sector to the general public and decision makers. The organization is built on the belief that knowledge forms the basis for all change and seeks to achieve this through an innovative cooperation between the organization’s two components
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Knowledge briefs are held on a monthly basis – providing a space where HUNGOs alternately address various subjects
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Nokia data gathering

The Nokia data-gathering tool incorporates use of mobile telephony in collecting field data and will offer HUNGOs enhanced near-real-time data collection abilities in research processes and surveys. The tool acts as an enabler for effective, timely and efficient responses by organizations to their beneficiaries and communities.

Information Sharing and Dissemination

Humanitarian organizations disseminate their information of public interest through HIFC and contribute reports and other documentation to a humanitarian information database housed at HIFC and accessible to media carrying out research in the various sectors.
 
 
 
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Did you Know?

  • Zimbabwe has one of the best social protection schemes in Africa through the BEAM programme.The government is committed to this programme and yet this is not reported internationally. South Africa leads in terms of social protection in Africa
  • The bill for older person in Zimbabwe is now in Parliament from 2002 when the draft was made
  • With Climate change Zimbabwe’s warming is between 0.15-055oC, this is more than the global average

 

 

FROM THE HEALTH SECTOR

The apostolic sect is the largest religious group in Zimbabwe and holds 38% of all the religious groups in Zimbabwe.

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HIFC recently completed a successful pilot using Nokia handhelds (E71s) to conduct an investigation into the issue of access to essential medicines among ordinary Zimbabweans. HIFC is the first organization to pilot this tool in Zimbabwe. Through partnership with Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) – a local NGO working in community health - 13 field monitors conducted a survey in five districts of the country, administering questionnaires to health workers and patients alike and sending data pertaining to the drug availability status of over 30 health institutions. Key findings indicate that the problem of shortages of painkillers and drugs for common ailments is widespread across the country, and can be attributable to stock outs possibly related to expiration and non-replacement and pilferage among other reasons

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