Africa

Zimbabwe

• © UNESCO/Wagner Horst
• Environmental slogan in Harare, Zimbabwe

The country hosts a UNESCO Cluster Office in Harare, which covers Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

A UNESCO Chair on Renewable Energy was launched in Zimbabwe at the Scientific Industrial Research and Development Centre (SIRDC) to strengthen the national and international efforts in renewable energies. It constitutes a framework in which specialised networks can be established and where education, training and information tools and material are designed, prepared and disseminated. This UNESCO chair serves also as a bridge between the research and development institutions and the industrial sector.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater

- Southern Africa Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (SA FRIEND)

- Sustainable Integrated Management and Development of the Arid and Semi-Arid Region of Southern Africa programme (SIMDAS)

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Sustainable Integrated Management and Development of the Arid and Semi-Arid Region of Southern Africa programme (SIMDAS)

Earth Sciences

- Pan-African Network for a Geoscience Information System (PANGIS)

Renewable and Alternative Energies

- Solar Village Programme More

- UNESCO Chair in Renewable Energy, established in 1997 at the University of Zimbabwe More