1. ZIMBABWE - VISION Focus for 2014-2016
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
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

2. CHALLENGES KEY BOTTLENECKS Limited access to sector development funds
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

3. AREAS OF SLOW ACHIEVEMENT
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
Follow up implementation of the NWP
Implement Urban Water Tariff Study (2011) recommendations
Establishing a national WASH monitoring system
AREAS OF SLOW ACHIEVEMENT
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

4. 2014 COMMITMENTS Service Delivery & Performance
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)
Service Delivery & Performance
Institutional Framework
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
Sustainability
Develop a Sanitation and Hygiene Policy (including solid waste management) to sustain OD Free communities
Sustain Participatory Health & Hygiene Education
Performance benchmark service delivery
Policy and strategies
Policy and strategies
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
Financing & Revenue Collection
Equality