The University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences (UZCHS) successfully bid for a Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) award that was granted in 2010.UZCHS in partnership with University of Colorado (UC) and Stanford University (SU) developed a comprehensive program (NECTAR) to address the three major themes of MEPI, namely clinical capacity development, research capacity strengthening, and retention of medical workforce. The impact of the MEPI program at UZCHS in spite of a decade (1999-2009) of diminished governmental support, political and economic uncertainty with significant faculty attrition has been truly remarkable. New services and technology have been created to improve medical research at UZCHS, but emerging faculty do not have skills or training opportunities to use these tools effectively. The investments in ICT resources represent an important step forwardare 6,767 affiliated female teams across the country (up from 6,000 in 2016-17), there has been a 15.9% year-on-year increase in girls-only Mini-Soccer teams and, after establishing 199 Wildcat clubs aimed at five-to-11-year-olds, a further 772 are being introduced in 2018. For those players who get lost between the ages of 16 and 20 as they come out of regional talent centres, there are a spate of talent academies planned with a programme of competitive football.

That is not all. There are big ambitions for the Lionesses at the 2019 World Cup, a likely Team GB at the Tokyo Olympics and a strong bid to host Euro 2021. Viewing figures for live WSL matches have more than doubled and access to games has improved, with teams and the FA