The Zimbabwean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector is celebrating a massive increase in the 2021 national WASH budget, following the successful Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) Finance Ministers' Meeting (FMM) in 2020. The sector had originally proposed a budget of ZWL$300 million (829, 000 USD) for the fiscal year 2021/2022, however, they were happily surprised by the announcement that the budget would be increased to ZWL$500 million (1.38 million USD). This is the first time that the Ministry of Finance is allocating funds to support the establishment of an information management