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A child holds a Child Health Card at a clinic in Zimbabwe
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The Zimbabwe Central Statistical Office (CSO), with financial and technical assistance from the United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Analytical Multi Donor Trust Fund (A-MDTF) led by the World Bank, is currently conducting the Multiple Indicator Monitoring Survey (MIMS) 2009.
Zimbabwe Multiple Indicator Monitoring Survey (MIMS) 2009 is a customized version of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) which was originally developed by UNICEF to measure progress towards an internationally agreed set of goals that emerged from the 1990 World Summit for Children. MIMS uses MICS instruments as a basis, but a number of non-MICS indicators such as migration, income/expenditure and provision of water and electricity will be added in order to capture rapidly growing problems in Zimbabwe. The data collection instruments, however, will remain mostly the same as MICS instruments to ensure the comparability with ZDHS 2005/6 data.
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| A nurse attends to a pregnant woman at a Zimbabwean hospital |
The MIMS will collect a broad array of information on human development and child welfare including those from the MDGs. MIMS comes at a time when the international communities' eyes are all on Zimbabwe. Although Zimbabwe has a wealth of demographic, socio-economic and environmental data from different sources, there has been a growing concern for the availability of most up-to-date social indicators on the ground since the last ZDHS2005/6. There has been renewed interest on Zimbabwe nationally and internationally, and there is urgent need for information for immediate/short terms interventions following the collapse of basic social services. Implementation of MIMS presents an opportunity to development partners to formulate evidence-based interventions.
The main objectives of the survey are:
- To collect socio-economic data through the household survey that will bring out a broad array of information on health, human capital and well-being of the population that can be used as a baseline for development interventions;
- To build a capacity of national partners in data collection, compilation, processing, analysis and reporting;
- To provide decision makers with evidence on children’s and women’s rights and other vulnerable groups in Zimbabwe.
The preliminary report will become available in August 2009 and the results will be widely distributed among development partners.