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Annual Report 2013: Regis Matimati (Acting Country Director, Zimbabwe) April 2014 Our Annual Budget was also the highest it has ever been at close to a million USD and our latest audit gave us a clean bill of health, which should encourage future partners. The USAID project was particularly important as we were directly funded …

20 years of Community Health Clubs

ZIMBABWE, ZIMBABWE NEWS / By africaahead

A Quick History: Giving Credit Where it is Due Dr Juliet Waterkeyn, CEO Africa AHEAD April 2014 This year we are celebrating 20 years since 1994 we first tried out my original concept of a ‘Community Health Club’ to galvanise women into taking action to improve their own health and hygiene in their homes. I would …

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How do CHCs work? A description from the field

How do CHCs work? A description from the field Read More »

How do Community Health Clubs work? Our team in Zimbabwe were asked to describe how CHCs work. Their description is a fresh look at the whole process… This is how Regis Matimati, Director of Programmes describes the process…. ‘Here is how it goes. About 50-100 people staying in the same locality meet once weekly on …

Cholera Mitigation through Community Health Clubs: Zimbabwe 2012-2013

Cholera Mitigation through Community Health Clubs: Zimbabwe 2012-2013 Read More »

Donor: USAID (direct funding) Districts: Mutare, Chimanimani and Chipinge Number of Project Wards : 23 Number of beneficiaries: 811,451 Number of CHC Members: 15,911 Cost of Project: US$ 506,316 Cost per Beneficiary: US$2.34 Start and end Date: October 2012- September 2013 Goal: To improve hygiene and sanitation practices and to sustainably reduce the risk …

Stakeholders impressed with Bindura Town cleanup

Stakeholders impressed with Bindura Town cleanup Read More »

Morgan Haiza, Project Manager, Zim AHEAD 12th June, 2013 The stakeholder monitoring exercise from the 29 to the 30th of May 2013 was aimed to assess progress in the implementation of water and sanitation and hygiene education UNICEF funded programme in Bindura. This exercise was brought about by stakeholders’ request that they needed to establish what …

Value for Money: highly motivated communities build 7,771 unsubidized latrines in one year

Value for Money: highly motivated communities build 7,771 unsubidized latrines in one year Read More »

CASE STUDY: Zimbabwe: Community Health Clubs deliver Hygiene + Total Sanitation @ $4.42 pp June 2013 Source: December 2012 Project Report Zimbabwe AHEAD/ACF, Cecilia Chinhengo / Juliet Waterkeyn Blanket coverage: This Community Health Club project was implemented by Zim AHEAD, in partnership with ACF in 429 villages, within 11 wards of Gutu and Mberengwa, Masvingo …

2011 National Sanitation Week Commemorations Proposed for Masvingo

2011 National Sanitation Week Commemorations Proposed for Masvingo Read More »

19th July, 2011. To Masvingo Municipality Dear Sir, Its been a while since ZimAHEAD left Masvingo and I know the CHCs are still fired up and functional in waste management and public health promotion. I don’t know if you are aware that Zimbabwe Sanitation Week will be commemorated in your city owing to your outstanding …

WASH Response to Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe

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Masvingo Community Health CLlub Project Goal: To reduce the vulnerability of at-risk rural populations in rural Masvingo to Water and Sanitation Related Disease (WSRD) transmission. Objectives: 1) To increase levels of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) knowledge, attitudes and practices through Community Health Clubs and School Health Clubs so as to decrease vulnerability to WSRD …

Masvingo is the latest town to be cleaned up by CHCs

Masvingo is the latest town to be cleaned up by CHCs Read More »

ERF-UNOCHA through Oxfam, is providing community capacity building in cholera mitigation. Based on the success in Mutare and Chiredzi, ZimAHEAD has been contracted to provide yet another Community Health Club programme in high density urban areas of Masvingo Town. All the 10 wards under the Masvingo City Council Authority are being covered by 9 Community …

eThekwini CHC Project Gets Underway with 3 Day Training

eThekwini CHC Project Gets Underway with 3 Day Training Read More »

August 2010 Africa AHEAD Project Manager Nancy Maksimoski conducted a 3-day workshop on the CHC Methodology for EWS staff 17-19 August 2010 in Durban. The training covered Modules 1 (Feasibility: Rationale for the Community Health Club Approach) and 2 (Planning: How to Start a Community Health Club Project) of Africa AHEAD’s CHC Manual. For this …

Cholera Mitigation Case Study

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Community Health Clubs were started in Mutare, Zimbabwe in an effort to combat the rapid spread of Cholera in Zimbabwe in 2009. This is an inspiring account of how well mobilised women were able to role back this deadly threat and prevent any daths from cholera in this high risk area. The paper presented at …

Durban Informal Settlement CHC

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Johanna Road Informal Settlement October 2009 The eThekwini Metro is giving Africa AHEAD the chance to pilot the CHC concept in one of the most challenging informal settlements in the City of Durban. The settlement is situated on a steep slope of a hill next to the Sea Cow sewerage works, which has long been …

Hygiene Behaviour change monitored in Umzimkhulu

Hygiene Behaviour change monitored in Umzimkhulu Read More »

BACKGROUND Umzimkhulu Municipality in Sisonke District of KZN was selected by the Department of Water Affairs to pilot this project that was initiated as part of the IWRM (Integrated Water Resource Management) programme being funded by the Danish Embassy (DANIDA). Umzimkhulu was part of the Eastern Cape until it was recently absorbed into Kwa Zulu …

Rise From Your Sleep

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8th April, 2009 Umzimkhulu is one of the most disadvantaged of all areas of South Africa. Levels of water provision by government are unacceptably low, with 80% of the community within this project still using unprotected open water sources. In addition, the recent base line survey shows that hygiene and sanitation practices are equally appalling, …

Umzimkhulu Base Line Survey

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March 2009. J. Rosenfeld & J. Waterkeyn The base line survey has been completed for Umzimkhulu and provides some guidelines as to the most pressing gaps in health knowledge that can be filled and hygiene behavior that can be changed by the Community Health Clubs. Based upon the results of this report, and given that …

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