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This vision aims to restore Zimbabwe as a leader in Africa for providing quality water, sanitation, and hygiene services to its population. Key goals include enhancing service delivery, improving sector financing, strengthening regulation, and reducing open defecation. Challenges include limited access to funds, outdated infrastructure, and weak coordination. Progress has been made in finalizing policies and implementing strategies, but areas of slow achievement remain. Commitments for 2014 include operationalizing the institutional framework, enhancing monitoring, and completing the rehabilitation of WASH services.
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ZIMBABWE - VISION SHORT TERM Water: 79% have access to improved water Restore Zimbabwe to its position as a leader in Africa with respect to the provision of quality water, sanitation and hygiene services to its population. Sustaining improved water, sanitation and hygiene service delivery for all Zimbabweans, including elimination of Open Defecation (OD). Sanitation: 67% use improved toilets Focus for 2014-2016 • Enhancing service delivery and performance, through the implementation of the ZimASSET • Ensuring sustainability through sound policies and implementation strategies • Improving sector financing and revenue collection • Strengthening WASH Sector regulation and coordination mechanisms Inequalities: Nationally 26% practice OD 42% of rural and 1% of urban populations practice OD
CHALLENGES Tools used: AfricaSan Report 2013 GLAAS 2013 • KEY BOTTLENECKS • Limited access to sector development funds • Aged WASH service infrastructure, limiting efficient WASH service delivery • Weak sector regulation and coordination mechanisms
PROGRESS ON 2012 COMMITMENTS • Finalisation of the National Water Policy (NWP) • Implementation of the National Sanitation & Hygiene Strategy • Piloting & Upscaling of the Rural WASH Information Management System • Service level performance benchmarking of urban WASH utilities KEY ACHIEVEMENT AREAS AREAS OF SLOW ACHIEVEMENT • Follow up implementation of the NWP • Implement Urban Water Tariff Study (2011) recommendations • Establishing a national WASH monitoring system • Aligning the NWP with existing laws & implement its provisions • Committing financial and human resources to sector regulation and coordination mechanisms • Increasing financial public sector spent on WASH programs CARRY-OVER TO 2014
2014 COMMITMENTS Institutional Framework Service Delivery & Performance Sustainability Operationalise by end 2015, updatable GIS-linked national rural & urban WASH database Enhance monitoring and link financing with performance Hold an annual Joint Sector Review (JSR) Commit financial and human resources to clear sector regulation and coordination mechanisms Complete rehabilitation of rural & urban WASH services in line with agreed benchmarks & establish effective community led O&M systems hinged upon PPP approaches by 2015 Policy and strategies Policy and strategies Financing & Revenue Collection Equality • Develop a Sanitation and Hygiene Policy (including solid waste management) to sustain OD Free communities • Sustain Participatory Health & Hygiene Education • Performance benchmark service delivery Establish WASH regulatory framework & rationalise roles and responsibilities of service authorities & service providers including the PPP framework by December 2014 Advocate for 7% of the annual national budget towards WASH & link disbursements to service delivery performance, cost recovery & revenue collection, leveraging an equal amount from other public & private sources by end 2015
