The Australian government says it has “restructured” its aid assistance programmes in  Zimbabwe with only “forward” funded programmes running until the end of the projects.
Zimbabwe since the year 2000 has been depending on donor funding after economy crashed down following farm invasions sponsored by President Robert Mugabe. Harare was slapped with sanctions by America and the European Union for violently grabbing farms owned by white commercial farmers.
Since then, the country has been unable to produce its own food.
Australia’s Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Suzanne McCourt told ZimEye.com during a tour of projects her country is supporting in Harare, this week that there is no fresh money for Zimbabwe.
“We have restructured the aid programme, a lot of water and sanitation programmes we have here were forward funded and they will run until that money channeled towards them runs out. We have ongoing scholarship commitments and short courses of midlevel professionals for public servants   that are running,” she said.
“We also have ongoing support through Australian NGOs supporting partnering with Zimbabwean NGOs to provide assistance to the communities,” she concluded.