The Joint Initiative for Urban Zimbabwe (a consortium of five International NGOs - Mercy Corps as lead, CRS, CARE, Africare, and Oxfam) will be implementing an eighteen month long project funded by Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance, (OFDA) concentrating on agriculture, Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) interventions. The program will be implemented in Mutare, Chitungwiza, Harare (Mbare), Masvingo and Bulawayo. The objective of the WASH component is to increase communities' resiliency to WASH related shocks such as disease outbreak, whilst the agricultural component is aimed at improving urban populations' reliable access to nutritious food.