Peter Makwanya Perfecting the art of resilience building needs to start with the local and inward focus before venturing into the unknown world of climate change adaptation. While collaboration and inclusion of international best practices is key and instrumental in adding value to building capacity to climate action and justice, it is vital that communities […]

Of all the improvements that local authorities perform on a piece of land earmarked for urban development, drainage systems seem to receive the least attention. This is more clearly visible especially in all newer residential areas. Storm water drains that were built in the 1990s and before, when the country was more economically stable, were […]

It is shockingly outrageous that most people of Zimbabwe are senseless litterbugs who do not see anything wrong in chucking beer bottles out of the windows of their cars when driving on the highways , people who do not hesitate to throw empty plastic bottles anywhere on the ground. Zimbabwe’s urban environment is by all […]

The plan by authorities to ban the use of plastic carrier bags by December 2022 will do very little to reduce the amount of plastic pollution in the environment. By our own estimates, plastic bags amount to less than 10 percent of all improperly-disposed plastic waste in the country’s physical environment. It is clear that […]