Access to water Chivi district This project will drill a total of 10 new boreholes and rehabilitate 10 boreholes in Chivi district to improve access to clean and safe water for human consumption by reducing distances travelled by women and children from up to 2km to less than 500 meters to the water point.  
In order to establish community ownership, pre-borehole rehabilitation community consultations will be conducted with all stakeholders. These consultations will address the safety of proposed sites and protection risks, especially for women and children, the importance of accompanying hand-washing facilities and needs for persons with disabilities. Community-based pump minders (one per village) will be trained or re-trained in borehole maintenance and repair, not only to ensure quality, sustainable outputs for the project, but also to ensure community participation and support to maintain water infrastructure. Pump minders will be linked to Water Point Management Committees, where committees will be responsible for coordinating repairs with pump minders and assisting in fee acquisition from community members to maintain boreholes. Committee members will be trained in leadership functions and decision-making processes for water-point maintenance & operation. CAFOD will facilitate regular community planning and review meetings aimed at empowering communities to constantly review the programme. This feedback will assist CAFOD to adjust the programme if necessary, to ensure that it is driven by community aspirations and is relevant to the local context.
Health and Hygiene education for communities through training of 10 Village Health Workers (70% women) who will facilitate the formation of 10 community health clubs for spearheading the dissemination of health and hygiene information across the community (2,500 females and 1,500 males). 
Empowerment of women and revival of community management systems through establishment of 20 water point committees (120 women, 80 men), training of village pump minders (24 women, 16 men). Village pump minders, who were all men due to negative cultural beliefs and practices that hinder participation of women, are no longer active because they are very old and no longer have equipment and capacity to repair the boreholes. The community-based management systems have since collapsed due to the decline in macro-economic environment which left communities unable to pay for basic services including maintenance of infrastructure. The project will also include promotion of vegetable gardens on high yielding water points in order to lessen the burden of looking for vegetable relish by women.  Income Generation Activities (IGAs), Internal Savings and Landings (ISALs) and training in entrepreneurship will be introduced to Participatory Health and Hygiene Education (PHHE) clubs for income generation and enhance economic empowerment of women
Gender mainstreaming in all institutional arrangements will be informed by a gender audit to be carried out under the Match Fund WASH project. 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 20 community-based committees).
Knowledge  management / Learning: the programme will focus on learning to ensure that good practices and lessons are documented and shared through photography, reports and discussion at all levels (from communities to authorities to national/international audiences).