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International visitors from OXFAM visit Masvingo

01 December, 2011

Report by Morgan Hayiza

ZimAHEAD Project Officer.

Oxfam staff from UK, Germany, Scotland and Zimbabwe had an opportunity to visit the Community Health Clubs and rehabilitated water points in Masvingo Rural District of Zimbabwe, where ZimAHEAD implemented an OFDA funded Water and Sanitation Project through OXFAM GB. The project ended [...]

Towards EDPRS ideals: Water access, hygiene and sanitation in Rwanda give new hopes and opportunities

SUNDAY TIMES, KIGALI.

Friday September 2, 2011 by Thomas Kagera

Rwanda has committed itself to reaching very ambitious targets in water supply and sanitation, with the vision to attain 100 per cent service coverage by 2020. The importance of adequate water supply and sanitation services as drivers for social and economic development, poverty reduction and [...]

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 [...]

President calls for CHC throughout Rwanda

RWANDA IS THE FIRST COUNTRY WORLD WIDE TO MAKE CHCS A NATIONAL INSTITUTION.

His Excellency the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, launched the Hygiene and Sanitation Presidential Initiative (HSPI) in July 2010 and this has dramatically raised the profile of the Community-Based Environmental Health Promotion Programme (CBEHPP) that was officially launched on 17 December last [...]

Sing Song CHCs

August 2010. J. Waterkeyn

CHCs are spreading rapidly in Africa, but the question remains, ‘Can they appeal to more sophisticated rural communities in Asia?’ How can we adapt the CHC methodology to suit this very different scenario.

Since November 2009, when Ministry of Health (MoH) in Vietnam first decided to use the [...]

Zimbabwe Case Study

A short summary of hygiene behaviour change in Zimbabwe, updating from the ground breaking early projects in 2001 in Tsholtsho, to recent projects in Chipinge where similat levels of change are being recorded. It points a way forward as to how the MDGs can be achieved by scaling up the CHC approach as is being [...]

South Africa:KZN Case Study

This is a summary of the achievements of a pilot project which was using Community Health Clubs to promote hygiene behaviour change in Kwa Zulu Natal, and shows that this is an effective methodology for sound development in rural South Africa

South Africa KZN Rural Case Study