Monitoring: interesting reads, events and more
For monitoring related developments, interesting reads, events and more.
Sustainability Tools and Clauses
Blog post by Jonathan Annis - Maintaining sustainability (or longevity as I prefer to think of it) of water services requires an ecosystem of support. This ecosystem includes but is not limited to policy, financing, planning, learning, harmonization, and technology. The ecosystem is complex and nonlinear; the broad categories are highly interdependent and failure in one aspect can have a domino effect on the others. Indeed, services are delivered, like children are raised, with the support of an entire village. Continue reading.
Ratan Budhathoki from NEWAH, Nepal shares his thoughts on monitoring
Ratan Budhathoki is Knowledge Management & Advocacy Manager at NEWAH in Nepal. At IRC’s Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium, he explains why he thinks monitoring is important for him, how NEWAH is monitoring now, and how he sees his organisation monitoring in future. Watch the interview here.
Sustainability checks, clauses and compacts - USAID and DGIS lead the way
By Stef Smits - Over the past year, there has been quite a bit of buzz in the WASH sector on the sustainability clause that DGIS seeks to include in its contacts with implementers. The pros and cons of this have been widely debated. A key component of the clauses is to have sustainability checks as a way to verify whether sustainability criteria are being met. Continue reading.
Monitoring the human rights to water and sanitation
“Monitoring can be used, not just to provide data on access, but also as an effective way of identifying those who do not have access, as well raising awareness of the issues that lead to exclusion from water and sanitation services”, says Ms. Catarina de Albuquerque in her opening statement on 9 April at IRC’s Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium.
Unfortunately, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation could not deliver her statement in person due to illness, but she was ably replaced by her adviser Ms. Virginia Roaf. Continue reading.
Fifty years of monitoring and evaluation - from before Drawers of Water to beyond the MDGs
Read this interesting paper Fifty years of monitoring and evaluation - from before Drawers of Water to beyond the MDGs by Rachel Norman and Richard Franceys, developed for the 35th WEDC International Conference, Loughborough, UK, 2011. Rachel Norman will be contributing to the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium with a presentation based on the briefing paper Monitoring – fit for purpose? The presentation is scheduled to take place in the plenary session in the morning of Thursday 11 April, 2013.
Videos on monitoring
Check out these small clips on monitoring 1. The use of FLOW for monitoring water services in Ghana; 2. M4W in Uganda: using mobile phones for improved access to safe water; 3. Post-2015 monitoring; 4. Ethiopia's national WASH inventory
“Data puke” by Water For People
What do we do with all the data we’ve been collecting? How do we refrain from information overload? Water For People animates the gruelling reality of “too much data - not enough change”. Watch the video here.
Blogs on monitoring sustainable sanitation and hygiene services
Our colleagues have been busy blogging about sanitation and hygiene services that last. Read about IRC’s work with BRAC to monitor progress of the largest sanitation programme in the world: the BRAC WASH II programme in Bangladesh. The component on menstrual hygiene management is delivering strong results by improving lives of millions of girls and their families. More
Monitoring more than toilets, Water Institute challenges UN statistics
The United Nations (UN) reported that 2.5 billion people are without proper toilet facilities. The Water Institute of the University of North Carolina (UNC), however, places this figure closer to 4.1 billion people. Why the discrepancy in the reported numbers? The significant difference between figures comes from different accounting methods used. The UN measured hardware – toilets, in this case – and how well it protects users from immediate contact with waste. UNC researchers, on the other hand, considered hardware as well as whether or not sewage was treated—revealing that more people are without proper toilet facilities. Monitoring sanitation should not only look at toilets, but also what happens next, i.e, waste treatment. More
Methodological lessons and findings from an impact evaluation of a WASH project in Indonesia
This papers shares experiences, findings and lessons from the impact evaluation of the Second Water and Sanitation for Low Income Communities Project (WSLIC-2) by the Ministry of Health of Indonesia.
Click here to learn how to access the document through IRC.
