Monitoring: interesting reads, events and more
For monitoring related developments, interesting reads, events and more.
Service delivery indicators and monitoring to improve sustainability of rural water supplies
A crucial building block in delivering sustainable services is a monitoring system able to track a level of service over time, especially the performance of key technical, financial, and management functions so that problems can be anticipated and addressed.
Download the Triple-S briefing note here to learn more about how monitoring can help lead to rural water services that last.
The River of Myths by Hans Rosling | #BillsLetter
Are developing countries really still ‘developing’? How can we ensure that all countries are ‘developed’ by 2013? According to Hans Rosling, a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician, and public speaker, we can only ensure progress by proper measuring. Watch Hans Rosling’s interesting video here.
Maximizing Mobile, a report by the World Bank
What are the consequences of emerging mobile phone technologies? How will the “app economy” affect financing, governance, and other issues in countries all over the world? This report from the World Bank dissects how the use of mobile phones has a powerful impact on development.
National monitoring of rural water supplies: how the Government of Uganda did it and lessons for other countries
Over a ten-year period, the Government of Uganda implemented a transparent and consolidative approach to monitoring. Read the report from the Rural Water Supply Network to learn lessons and challenges from the Ugandan context. Download here
Waterlines issue on monitoring and mapping of water and sanitation
As part of the symposium pack, all registered participants from the IRC Symposium 2013: Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery will receive a free copy of the October 2012 edition of “Waterlines”, focusing on WASH sector monitoring. For further info on the content of the publication, please check here.
RWSN hosts a three week e-discussion on water point mapping
The Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN) is coordinating a three week e-discussion on water point mapping, entitled “From data to decision making”. The e-discussion will take place between 21 January and 8 February 2013. Registered stakeholders can share experiences and challenges from the full monitoring cycle. The e-discussion will be hosted in English and French, and is open to anyone who registers here. If you are not a member of RWSN, but are interested in the topic, we still encourage you to join.
Second WHO/UNICEF meeting on post-2015 global WASH goals, The Netherlands, 3-5 December 2012
This past December, WHO/UNICEF hosted a consultation meeting on the post-2015 global WASH goals, targets, and indicators. Check out the presentations made during three-day event here. Lilianne Ploumen, Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, also gave a speech on the last day of the meeting. Read the speech here.
Evaluating & Improving the WASH Sector - Strengthening WASH Governance, Learning about Complexity, Assessing Change
Over recent decades, several events and trends resulted in an increased focus on development agencies’ results, hence an increased demand for quantitative measurement in general, and impact evaluation in particular.
Read more or download TOP23_EvaluatingWASH.pdf (1.9 MB)
