March 17, 2021 Duncan Mlanjira – Nyasa Times 2 Comments
The Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 has issued instructions to the Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) to abolish the essential water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) public programme.
Lloyd Mtalimanja, WaterAid’s coordinator for policy & sector engagement
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Presidential Taskforce is reportedly justifying the deactivation that it is no longer necessary since the Ministry of Education is now drilling boreholes.
According a statement issued by one of the WaSH programme’s stakeholders, WaterAid, the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19’s attempts to deactivate the essential WaSH cluster started as far back as March, 2020.