National Blueprint · One of 195
A nation of 17.0 million whose lithium exports more than tripled in a year, to $782 million in the first half of 2026, and where 38% lived in extreme poverty in 2019.
Perfect Nations values what Zimbabwe owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).
Zimbabwe at a glance
What we do for Zimbabwe
Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.
The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.
01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets
Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Zimbabwe toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.
$782MExports of lithium products, first half of 2026, up from $237M
A boom in a mineral the world needs for batteries, with more processing required at home.
50%Of electricity from renewables, 2022
Kariba Power Station generated 31.7% of the nation’s electricity in the first quarter of 2026, and Hwange Power Station 56.3%.
35.7%Of land under forest, 2024
Woodland and wildlife across a third of the country.
48.1%Of land in agriculture, 2024
Tobacco, maize and cattle across half the country.
17.0mCitizens, 2025
Remittances from abroad equal 8.5% of GDP.
02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture
Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Zimbabwe owns, every line sourced.
Capital ArchitectureThe record in figures
Capital already committed
May 2024 to April 2025 · El Niño drought · 3.1 million people targeted of 7.6 million in need
$104.3 million received against the 2024 requirement of $286.2 million
The humanitarian partners’ appeal for the El Niño-induced drought, in support of the Government-led response. It sought $429.3 million to reach close to 3.1 million people. Drought strikes the food and water standards first.
United Nations (OCHA)Humanitarian partners
SourceApproved by IMF Management 27 March 2026 · 10 months · first review completed 27 July 2026 · second review completed, announced 7 October 2026
Third review tentatively January 2027, on end-September 2026 targets
An informal, non-financing programme with IMF staff, without endorsement by the IMF Executive Board, to consolidate stabilisation gains, strengthen macroeconomic management and build a track record toward arrears clearance and debt resolution. All end-June 2026 quantitative targets were met; the indicative target on protected social and priority spending was missed. The IMF links the track record to eventual access to external concessional financing, which every one of the seven standards needs.
International Monetary Fund
SourceAllocated by the Governing Board 12 February 2026, third call for proposals · Pandemic Fund grant · outcomes expected 2026 to 2028 · implementing entities: AfDB, FAO and UNICEF
About $49 million of co-financing; Government co-investment of $91.8 million
A Pandemic Fund grant to establish a resilient pandemic prevention, preparedness and response system in Zimbabwe by 2028. It serves the health standard.
Pandemic FundAfrican Development BankFAOUNICEF
SourceApproved by the GCF 30 October 2025 · Grant · Accredited entity: Save the Children Australia · Estimated completion 21 April 2032
10% disbursed; $30 million with co-financing
A Green Climate Fund grant for climate change adaptation and community resilience through green jobs for adolescents and young people in Zimbabwe. The GCF expects 3.2 million people to gain resilience; it serves the livelihood standard.
Green Climate FundSave the Children Australia
SourceProcessed 23 February 2024 · Global Financing Facility grant · Closed 15 November 2025
With the original grants, $21.55 million disbursed (99.9%)
Additional financing from the Global Financing Facility that widened the COVID-19 project to essential health services, particularly reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health. The Independent Evaluation Group rates the outcome Moderately Satisfactory; it served the health standard.
World BankGlobal Financing Facility
SourceFinancing agreement signed 9 March 2022 · Grants from the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Trust Fund and ESMAP · Closed 15 November 2025
7.5 million people received at least one vaccine dose
World Bank-administered trust fund grants to deploy and manage COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen related health system capacity, implemented by Cordaid. By its close, 79% of primary health care facilities had functional solar cold chain systems; it served the health and energy standards.
World BankCordaid
SourceApproved by the GCF Board 12 March 2020 · Accredited entity: UNDP · Estimated completion 9 June 2027
94% disbursed; $47.8 million with co-financing
A Green Climate Fund programme, run with UNDP, for smallholder farmers in three semi-arid agroecological regions of southern Zimbabwe. The GCF expects 2.3 million people to gain resilience; it serves the food and livelihood standards.
Green Climate FundUNDP
SourceApproved by the GCF 8 July 2019 · Accredited entity: World Food Programme · Estimated completion 2 August 2026
100% disbursed; 50,000 people, 66% of them women
A Green Climate Fund project, run with the World Food Programme, for climate risk management, food security and livelihoods in the Masvingo and Rushinga districts. It serves the food and livelihood standards.
Green Climate FundWorld Food Programme
SourceApproved, announced 18 May 2026 · African Development Fund grant, Transition Support Facility Pillar III · June 2026 to May 2029
Builds on the SACAGE project, approved in 2022
A grant to strengthen the dialogue and reforms needed for Zimbabwe’s arrears clearance process, including debt management systems, parliamentary oversight and anti-corruption. The AfDB calls clearing arrears “the gateway to unlocking the development financing the country urgently needs”, finance on which all seven standards depend.
African Development Bank
SourceApproved, announced 23 April 2026 · Grant, Transition Support Facility Pillar 1 · 2026 to 2030 · Gutu, Gwanda, Matobo, Mangwe and Bulilima districts
92,500 smallholder farmers, at least half of them women
A grant to build climate resilience, reduce vulnerability and improve food and nutrition security in drought-prone Masvingo and Matabeleland South, by revitalising smallholder agriculture and developing grazing areas and water resources. It is to create 320 full-time and 2,100 seasonal jobs, and serves the food, water and livelihood standards.
African Development Bank
SourceSigned September 2025 · Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company · $135.4 million disbursed in the first quarter of 2026
$135.4 million of the $140.3 million disbursed in the first quarter of 2026
An Afreximbank facility for the state power utility, recorded by the Ministry of Finance among disbursements for State Owned Enterprises and on-lent loans. Afreximbank describes it as a syndicated facility, which CBZ Bank is now positioned to join; it serves the energy standard.
AfreximbankZETDC
SourceApproved, announced 21 May 2025 · African Development Fund grant · Matabeleland South, Masvingo and Bulawayo
7,000 livestock-keeping farmers and 42,000 smallholder crop farmers
A grant to boost sustainable agricultural production and strengthen rural resilience in drought-prone regions, through climate-smart farming, the rehabilitation of dip tanks and solar boreholes, and value chain development. About 90,000 community members are to benefit indirectly; it serves the food, water and livelihood standards.
African Development Bank
SourceAnnounced 16 October 2024 · African Development Fund grant · Total cost $3.93 million
5,000 participants to be trained
A grant for vocational training, productivity, market links and entrepreneurship in selected agricultural value chains, for 1,000 young people, 200 women, 400 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises of women and young workers, and 10 cooperatives. It serves the education and livelihood standards.
African Development Bank
SourceAnnounced 21 July 2025 · Four years · Team Europe Initiative on National Public Health Institutes · with WHO
Zimbabwe’s first National Public Health Institute
European Union support for the establishment of Zimbabwe’s first National Public Health Institute, focused on science, evidence generation and data-driven policy advice. It serves the health standard.
European UnionWorld Health Organization
SourceSigned 30 October 2024 · Agri-value chains €26 million · biodiversity and resilience €26 million · transparency and accountability €16 million · gender equality €7 million
Second phase of funding under the €148 million allocation for 2021–2024
Four European Union agreements signed with the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion: horticulture and small grains value chains with renewable energy, biodiversity conservation with community resilience, citizen accountability and local services, and women’s economic empowerment. They serve the food, energy and livelihood standards.
European UnionMinistry of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion
SourceSigned in El Alamein, Egypt, announced 31 July 2026 · $150 million revolving trade finance · $20 million for SMEs · $20 million on-lending for power
Positions CBZ to join a $210 million syndicated facility for ZETDC
Three Afreximbank facilities for CBZ Bank: a revolving line for funding and letters of credit support to companies in Zimbabwe, a dual-tranche facility for small and medium enterprises in trade, and a dual-tranche on-lending facility to help reduce power deficits in Zimbabwe and the SADC region. They serve the livelihood and energy standards.
AfreximbankCBZ Bank
SourceLaunched 4 March 2025 · €20 million (ZWG 525.9 million) · backed by the European Commission and EU member states through the ACP Trust Fund
Longer-term loans, with a focus on businesses owned or run by women
An EIB Global credit line, on-lent by Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, for longer-term loans at favourable conditions to small and medium-sized businesses, with a focus on those owned or run by women. It serves the livelihood standard.
EIB GlobalStanbic Bank Zimbabwe
SourceSigned 7 March 2024, announced 15 March 2024
For SMEs in agri-business and trade distribution value chains
An African Development Bank guarantee facility with NMB Bank Zimbabwe to unlock trade finance for Zimbabwean small and medium-sized enterprises, in agri-business and trade distribution value chains. It serves the livelihood and food standards.
African Development BankNMB Bank Zimbabwe
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Tendai MoyoNation Steward of Zimbabwe · SI Researcher
Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Zimbabwe, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.
Breeds, multiplies and distributes mainly hybrid seed varieties of maize, wheat, soya beans, sugar beans, cowpeas, sorghum and vegetables, with expert agronomists across Zimbabwe. It describes itself as the leading certified seed company authorised to market seed varieties in over fifteen African countries, with a strong market share among communal and commercial farmers.
Seed CoA locally owned and financed solar power producer at Nyabira, 35 km from Harare, with 25 MW of licensed capacity. After its first 2 MW plant, it completed the second phase of its solar project in September 2024.
CentragridLaunched in 1993, it partners with 1,698 schools across 28 districts and has supported 456,865 students to go to primary and secondary school with donor funds. Its 95,250 CAMFED Association members and community initiatives have supported 2,325,709 students.
CAMFEDEstablished in 1987, the MSI Reproductive Choices programme in Zimbabwe provides all modern methods of contraception, post-abortion care, maternal and child health services, cervical cancer screening, and STI and HIV testing and treatment. It works through clinics, outreach teams, public sector strengthening and social marketing across all ten provinces.
MSI Reproductive ChoicesLends a €20 million (ZWG 525.9 million) EIB Global credit line as longer-term loans at favourable conditions to small and medium-sized businesses. Its focus is businesses owned or run by women, or that employ many women or offer services specifically to women.
EIB, 202503Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita
Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Zimbabwe in its own prices.
How Perfect Capita worksTap a star for its figure and source.
The price of Perfect Zimbabwe
To be set with Zimbabwe, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Zimbabwe, each year.
Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Zimbabwe. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures
Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.
Solution No. 38
A share of rising lithium revenue backs a social bond for toilets, sewers and safe homes.
~13mZimbabweans without safely managed sanitation at home
The ground beneath you has found a new price. … The lithium earns. The clinic, the tap and the wage have not yet caught up.
“The world needs your lithium for its batteries. Let it power a decent life at home first.”
Work with us · The ReDesign Studio
One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Zimbabwe, taken as far toward market as you choose.
For the Government of Zimbabwe, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.
Mandate 013 hours
A private session for the people who decide.
You leave withThe gap, named and sized
Mandate 023 days
Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.
You leave withThe structure, drawn
Mandate 03End to end
Led personally by the President and CEO.
You leave withA structure ready for market
Where Zimbabweans and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.
Writings
Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Zimbabwe, published with your name.
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Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Zimbabwe already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”
Co-designers
Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Zimbabwe.
Become a Co-designerThe Zimbabwe ReDesign Studio is open
Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal reply.
