About Us

Operating under the ACZ umbrella, ARDeZ serves as a national coordinating agency linking five Anglican dioceses — Harare, Manicaland, Masvingo, Matabeleland, and Central Zimbabwe — through a network of diocesan development offices. From its headquarters in Harare, ARDeZ mobilizes resources, builds partnerships, and provides technical and coordination support for diocesan and community-based programs implemented across the country. This national structure allows ARDeZ to reach diverse contexts, from drought-affected rural communities to urban and disaster-prone regions.

Guided by a mission to build a healthy, just, and poverty-free Zimbabwe, ARDeZ’s core mandate encompasses humanitarian relief, sustainable livelihoods, gender equality, health promotion, and environmental resilience. Its faith-based identity, extensive church infrastructure, and strong community trust position it uniquely to empower people to thrive and fulfil their God-given potential.

These successes speak to ARDeZ’s unique positioning: rooted in the Anglican Church’s infrastructure and moral authority, operating nationally across diverse dioceses, committed to both relief and development, and embedded in partnership and capacity-building. Its origin as a response-and-development arm of the ACZ gives it a strong institutional base, and its vision and mission align with both faith motivations and development imperatives. Its scope — from emergency response to sustainable employment creation and climate resilience — shows a broad and ambitious programme-spectrum, and its geographical spread allows for both national coordination and local implementation.

As ARDeZ moves forward, the narrative of its origin, objectives, vision, mission, scope and spread establishes a strong foundation for its strategic planning. The documented successes provide credible evidence of impact and legitimacy, and the national Anglican infrastructure provides a base for further growth and transformational work. The next chapters of ARDeZ’s strategic plan will build on this heritage and position the organisation for deeper impact in a changing Zimbabwean development context.