Zimbabwe - COVID-19 Impact on Food Security, Livelihoods and Local Markets (Jul - Sep 2020

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency conducted an assessment of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security, livelihoods and local markets for refugees in urban areas of Zimbabwe. The data was collected between July and September 2020 and is available via the HDX platform. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-03.

Use Cases

• Assessing changes in food security status based on survey data from urban refugee populations.
• Analyzing pandemic-related disruptions to livelihoods and local markets described in the assessment.
• Modeling the relationship between public health crises and economic vulnerability for displaced communities.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
• The assessment has a clearly defined temporal coverage of July to September 2020.
• The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-03 14:42:24.397369.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data formats are WEB APP and PDF, which may require extraction for analysis.

Provenance

Source

UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Collection Method

Assessment/survey, likely containing tabular data.

Time Range

July - September 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-03 14:42:24.397369; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Zimbabwe, urban areas