Water and Sanitation Programme

The Zimbabwe Red Cross Society’s water and sanitation policy objective is “To improve the health and social status of people in Zimbabwe’s most vulnerable communities through the provision of safe potable water and sanitation supplies.”

The water and sanitation interventions by the Society have, in most cases, been responsive to emergency situations and therefore not developmental in nature. However, the Society supports the development of water and sanitation services to vulnerable communities of Zimbabwe with the objective of improving the general health and social status of vulnerable communities. Zimbabwe Red Cross Society has identified two approaches to the provision of water and sanitation facilities that is the relief/emergency and developmental approach