Solar powered piped water scheme for Cheenga community, Binga, Zimbabwe. Binga district is one of the most marginalised areas in Zimbabwe and consistently overlooked by Government support and policy.  Compounded by erratic rains due to climate change the situation for the communities since the flooding of the Zambezi has worsened.  CAFOD has been working with Dabane Trust and Caritas Hwange for a number of years through the PRP and learning and experience from this programme has led to the development of this proposal.  Dabane Trust has been a technical partner to CAFOD and CAFOD’s Rural Wash Strategy identifies them as a key partner in reaching the very poorest and pursuing research and innovation.

CAFOD in partnership with Dabane Trust will establish a dam in Manjolo ward to address the challenges of limited access to potable and productive water. The purpose of the project is to maximise the social, environmental and economic benefits of the available surface water through improving the supply of domestic and productive water, and sound water conservation practices.
The project will address both the potable and non potable water needs of the Manjolo community.

Project Outputs:
Access to potable Water: A total of 325 households, comprising 1074 women and girls and 716men and boys will have access to clean water through the installation of slow sand filters.
• A total of 700 women and girls will be amongst those targeted for training in the fabrication and maintenance of slow sand filters
• A total of 3,260 cattle, and other small stock, will have drinking water
• A total of 125 households will have irrigation plots with an average size 400m2 from where they will produce vegetables and other crops for subsistence and for sale
• A total of 1000 households will have access to water for other productive economic activities eg brick-moulding
• A total of 1790 people will receive training in soil and water conservation and PHHE.
• The 125 households in the irrigation scheme will also receive trainings related to crop management and business skills. Women will be targeted for leadership trainings related to management of irrigation schemes
• A total of 700 households, comprising 2000 women and girls and 1848 men and boys will benefit from improved water resources management, namely reduction in soil erosion, reduction in siltation of water sources and improved ground water recharge.

• Empowerment of women and girls. The project will ensure that women are empowered to manage and maintain the infrastructures to be installed. In addition women will be specifically targeted for business skills trainings related to horticultural business management for gardens as a business. 

• Gender mainstreaming in all institutional arrangements will be informed by a gender audit. Gender awareness campaigns and trainings will be facilitated among all stakeholders to impart knowledge and skills to mainstream gender in their work (1 partner and 87 community-based committees).

• HIV and AIDS considerations: The programme will take into consideration the needs and requirements of people living with HIV and other affected groups, such as children, the elderly, and those with disabilities or chronic illnesses using the VIA lens tool.