The European Union has announced dishing out $4.5 million to Zimbabwe which will be used to assess the intensity of drought.
Zimbabwe is facing a severe drought this year as a result of poor rainfall.
According to the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee, an estimated 1.5 million rural Zimbabweans will be food insecure in the first three months of this year.
This figure is likely to increase if El Niño, as predicted, causes continued drought and a poor April to June 2016 harvest.
In an interview with reporters in Harare Thursday EU Ambassador to Zimbabwe Phillipe Philippe Van Damme said they are mobilising more resources for Zimbabwe.
“I have not had the opportunity yet to announce to the government but I have just the confirmation that yes we will probably get another $4.5 million   for Zimbabwe to start the close monitoring of the challenges and the quantification of the matrix to the quick assessment  being organised by Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) that we will have more precise figures which will allow not only EU  and its member states but also other international partners to go back to their capitals and find out what additional support can be mobilised, ” he said.
Last week the US  government  through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) extended  an additional $5 million to  Zimbabwe towards the eradication of hunger .