Need for water enhances Social Cohesion in Buhera.

The Heal Zimbabwe Trust has said in 2008, Nechavava Ward 16 in Buhera Central Constituency witnessed violent conflicts like many of the rural communities that suffered high levels of political intolerance.

"As part of Heal Zimbabwe's community resilience and peace building initiative, members of the community formed Batanai peace club which would have the mandate of encouraging peaceful co-existence in their area. Heal Zimbabwe trust trained the peace club on conflict mapping and mediation," said the trust.

"After the training, the Peace Club came up with an action plan to address exiting conflicts in their areas. The plan, identified issues or conflicts that affect the community and key stakeholders to be engaged to address this."

Heal Zimbabwe trust said a suitable neutral platform was then decided by the Peace club to bring parties to the conflict together and engage in dialogue. Batanai Peace club in Nechavava ward 16 of Buhera identified a dam wall construction as the best collaborative neutral platform where community members worked together and discussed critical issues affecting the community including conflicts.

"On Saturday 21 May 2016, close to 260 Nechavava community members that included man, women, girls and boys gathered at the dam construction site to provide more importantly their manual labour to the work to construct a water body that will go a long way in easing their water woes but equally important to engage with their ward councillor, Thomas Matsenhura and  Enos Garikai who is Headman Nechavava on important issues affecting the community. One of the conflicts discussed was that most services to that ward including food aid distribution was not being done at a central venue due to inaccessibility of the more central place," said the trust.