Manicaland Development Association (MDA), established in 1981, was a

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

an NGO established to further the socio-economic development of the

Manicaland Manicaland is a Provinces of Zimbabwe, province in eastern Zimbabwe. After Harare Province, it is the country's second-most populous province, with a population of 2.037 million, as of the 2012 Zimbabwe census, 2022 census. After Harare and Bulawa ...

region of Zimbabwe. It ran a training centre at

Bonda Bonda is a deep-fried South Indian potato snack that has various sweet and savory versions in different regions. The most common is ''aloo bonda'' ( potato ''bonda''), and other region-specific variations include potato replaced with sweet pot ...

for skills development and transfer.

Context

is a province of Zimbabwe. It has an area of 36,459 km² and a population of approximately 1.6 million. The capital of the province is

Mutare Mutare (formerly Umtali) is the most populous city in the province of Manicaland, and the third most populous city in Zimbabwe, having surpassed Gweru in the 2012 census, with an urban area, urban population of 224,802 and approximately 260,567 ...

. The programme of the Zimbabwean government in the period immediately after white minority rule included investment in new forms of rural development.{{Cite book, last=Van Den Breemer, first=Hans, title=Towards Negotiated Co-management of Natural Resources in Africa, publisher=LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster, year=1999, isbn=3-8258-3948-6

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University of Iowa Centre for International Finance and Development Economic Development GrantsChitsanza Development Association
Manicaland Province