By Correspondent
Harare City Council (HCC) recently approved a US$548,1 million budget for the year 2025 with water and sanitation and road rehabilitation receiving the biggest shares.
Below, as part of a series, we give a breakdown of areas with the largest chunks of funds allocation.
WASH
The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program for 2025 will consume US$195 614 million.
According to Finance Chairperson Costa Mande it will be mainly internally funded.
“The WASH programme is the cornerstone of service delivery.
It has a projected expenditure of USD195.614 million and will fund its activities through cost recovery tariffs.
“(This is) after taking into consideration funding from devolution, loans and other sources.
The WASH program is expected to realise internal revenues amounting to USD 169.254 million to support its functions.
The resultant tariffs are cost recovery with basic water consumption level 0-5 cubic meters with no increases.
Marginal increases, of at most 10%, will be realised in subsequent user bands for water.
In 2024 the WASH programme had a projected expenditure of US$216 478 100.
ROADS
Roads programme has a total expenditure of US$105.399 million.
The revenue for this programme will be drawn from these:
-City Parking Remittance US$3.600 million
-Bus Termini Fee US$2.33 million
-Parking Fees US$7.4 million
-Road Design and Approval Fees US$4.937 million
-ZINARA Fees US$21 .299 million.
The deficit will be covered by property tax.
