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Comparing CHC to CLTS

The debate about the pros and cons of different strategies that are being used to mobilise communities and induce them to change their behaviour rolls on and this well reserached paper can add some factual information to the discussion. It summarises the outputs of latrine construction in three different projects areas in Zimbabwe. The CHC [...]

Sustainable Sanitation Alliance

Africa AHEAD has recently joined the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA), an informal network of partner organisations who share a common vision on sustainable sanitation. SuSanA came into existence in early 2007 and works as a coordination platform, working platform, sounding board, contributor to the policy dialogue on sustainable sanitation and as a [...]

2010 ZimAHEAD Annual Report

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November, 2011

Regis Matimati, Director of Programmes

ZimAHEAD team was at it again in 2010 scoring major public health goals with outstanding achievements in all our programming areas. The EC funded project in partnership with Mercy Corps drew to an end in October 2010 after three years of building [...]

Sustaining the Blue Planet Global Water Education Conference in Bozeman, Montana, USA

13th-16th September. 2011.

Since 1984 Project WET has been reaching out to children, parents, teachers and the community worldwide with information on water resources and how to preserve them. Their advocacy is now being recognised throughout the USA and 50 Countries worldwide where their training and high quality training materials are being used [...]

12,000 CHCs formed in Rwanda

The Training of Trainers by Africa AHEAD for the Communited BasedEnvironmental health PromotionProgramme in Rwanda for the scaling up of the CHC Approach to national level was completed in November 2010. Since then the process has been rolling out across the country in an unprecedented fashion. Encouraged by a Presidential directive from President Paul Kagame, [...]

2011 National Sanitation Week Commemorations Proposed for Masvingo

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 [...]

Im not Nobody Now

IRC has recently selected the story that we submitted as one of the winners in their competition for articles that inspire good development.

It is the moving story of Mrs Toriro and stands as our epitaph for a courageous and hard working women whom we have selected as a role model for other Community Health [...]

A Volunteer’s perspective : ‘A real eye opener’

April 2011

Kate Brogan is an intern with Zimbabwe AHEAD, having just qualified with a Master in Community Water Supply and Sanitation’ from Cranfield University, UK, she describes her first impressions of the CHCs in Zimbabwe

On the 1st of March 2011, I arrived in Harare, excited to meet the ZimAHEAD team. Their enthusiasm and [...]

CHCs take off in Vietnam

April, 2011

Vietnam is the first country in Asia to pioneer the Community Health Club (CHC) Model of development to bring about hygiene behaviour change and improve sanitation coverage, adapting it to suit local cultures. If sucessful, Vietnam could lead the way as a powerful change agent for sound development in Asia ensuring that CHCs [...]