As part of the International Year of Sanitation in 2008, Zimbabwe developed a national strategy for sanitation, launched in February 2008. Just five months later, a cholera outbreak that was to claim over 4,000 lives began.
One of the strategy’s key proposals was to call for expanded resources for sanitation including public-private partnerships to expand access to proper toilets across the country. The task force included representation from key ministries such as health, water development, and finance, as well as civic organisations like Plan International, World Vision and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), for which Ms. Noma Neseni is the water, sanitation and health coordinator in Zimbabwe.
Neseni told IPS reporter Busani Bafana why she viewed the task force’s work as less than a disaster. Read excerpts from the interview, published on 11 June here.
See also the article by Noma Neseni, “Sanitation perspectives in the new Zimbabwe”, published in the May issue of Source Bulletin here.
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