Economic and social development in Zimbabwe has been thrown a lifeline by an approval by the Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support the Emergency Power Infrastructure Rehabilitation Project Phase II (EPIRP II) in Zimbabwe. The financing comes in the form of a US $17.52-million grant from the Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund (ZimFund) housed in the AfDB. Logistics service providers will be called on to provide project cargo services in order to deliver the spares and components to the sites which are spread across the country. The objective of EPIRP is to improve the availability and reliability of electricity supply through the rehabilitation of generation, transmission and distribution facilities. This involves specifically the electricity supply to critical social infrastructure facilities and to the inhabitants of Kwekwe, Gweru, Bulawayo, Masvingo, Mutare, Harare and Hwange.
