• Senior Lecturer – Environmental Science
• Office: SW125
• Extension: 2323
• Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

1. PhD in Environmental and Water Science (Research focus: Water Governance-Sustainability of water supply systems) University of Western Cape, South Africa (2014-2017)
2. Master of Science Degree in Integrated Water Resources Management (Specialisation: Water Supply and Sanitation). University of Zimbabwe (2005-2006)
3. BSc. Geography and Environmental Studies, Midlands State University (2000 - 2004)
4. Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe, 2013).

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

• Makokove R, Macherera M, Kativhu T, Gudo D.F. (2022). The effect of household practices on the deterioration of microbial quality of drinking water between source and point of use in Murewa district, Zimbabwe. IWA; Journal of Water and Health 20 (3). 518-530. https://doi.org/10.2166/wh.2022.251
• Mutemani J, Chinyama A, Mohsin M, Kativhu T. (2022). Evaluation of the community participation in solid waste management: case of the city of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe Arabian Journal of Geosciences 15(10):969 DOI:10.1007/s12517-022-10228-w
• Kativhu T, Madzivanyika T, Nunu W. N,  Macherera M, Chinyama A. (2021) Sustainability Of Water Facilities Under Community Based Management in Zimbabwe. AQUA; Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society. 00.0 https://doi: 10.2166/aqua.2021.089.
• Kativhu T, Mazvimavi D, Tevera D and Nhapi. Influence of Multiple Uses of Water on the sustainability of Rural Water Systems in Zimbabwe. Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development 11.1 (2021)
• Kativhu T, Mazvimavi D, Tevera D and Nhapi I. Implementation of Community Based Management (CBM) in Zimbabwe: The dichotomy of theory and practice and its influence on sustainability factors. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 94 (2018)
• Kativhu T, Mazvimavi D, Tevera D and Nhapi I. Factors influencing sustainability of communally-managedwater facilities in rural areas of Zimbabwe. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 93 (2017)
• Demberere T, Chidziya T, Ncozana N and Manyeruke N. Knowledge and Practices regarding Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) among mothers of under-fives in Mawabeni, Umzingwane District of Zimbabwe. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 92 (2016)
• Demberere T, Muyambo M, Mutengu S, Ncozana T and Manyeruke N. An analysis of the effectiveness of WASH interventions in relation to diarrhoeal diseases in Chipinge district, Zimbabwe. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. (2014)
• Manyeruke N, Ncozana T, Demberere T. 2013. Women participation in traditional leadership roles: an assessment of the perceptions, contributions and obstacles facing women leaders in traditional leadership roles and Governance, the case of Zaka district in Zimbabwe. Asian Academic Research Journal of Multidisciplinary 1 (15).
• Demberere T, Mutengu S, Ncozana T and Rashiti M, 2012. “Assessing the effectiveness of settling ponds in treating mine effluent: A case of Murowa Diamonds Mine - Zvishavane, Zimbabwe”. Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, 14 (6)

• Hoko, T. Demberere and J. Siwadi. 2009. An Evaluation of the sustainability of a water Supply project in Mt Darwin District: Zimbabwe. Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa. 11 (2)

Book Chapters

• Kativhu T, Nhapi I, Chinyama A, Machera M and Dhoba L. (2021). The Water Sanitation and Hygiene Perspective in Response to Cyclone Idai in Zimbabwe. Cyclones and Floods in Southern Africa Vollume 111. Springer Nature.

Research Briefs Published

• Barrington, D.J., Sindall, R.C., Chinyama, A., Morse, T., Sule, M.N., Beale, J., Kativhu, T., Krishnan, S., Luwe, K., Malolo, R.D., Mcharo, O., Odili, A., Ravndal, K.T., Rose, J., Shaylor, E, Wozei, E. (2021). Research brief: Amplifying local voices to reduce failure in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector. WASH Failures Team.
• Chinyama, A., Kativhu, T., Sindall, R.C., & Barrington, D.J. (2021). Research brief: How to reduce failure in the Zimbabwean WASH sector. WASH Failures Team.