The Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe boasts of having one of the best collections of biodiversity information in Southern Africa. The richness of the savannah biodiversity is well represented through its collections of a variety of fauna ranging from large to small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish, invertebrates and birds. However, 80% of the specimens are not properly digitized to international standards such as the Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) including Darwin Core. Since 2013, with direct or indirect support from the Belgian government, Royal Museum of Central Africa, JRS Biodiversity Foundation, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), the museum has been able to begin its journey of making the biodiversity information in the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe more accessible, clean and useable for the scientific community. Since then, a number of biodiversity informatics initiatives have been implemented, however these have not been without their fair share of challenges and limitations. Through the lessons learned from kick starting this journey, it can be suggested that the biodiversity information facilities increase their funding opportunities to target biodiversity data holders at an institutional or individual level for African countries as most still face and need to overcome the major limitations of traditional mindsets, institutional barriers, and restrictive policies before they can be ready to implement projects at national levels. In response to the call for proposals from sub-Saharan Africa for the Biodiversity Information for Development (BID) program, the Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe is seeking partners for the Regional biodiversity data mobilization grants, to seek funding to meet the objective of providing long-term and unified access to the relevant sources of biodiversity information in Africa for science and environmental management.