A seminar looking at monitoring of decentralised delivery of water sanitation and hygiene services in West Africa.
Published on: 25/01/2014
In most African countries, the shift of responsibility for water and sanitation services to local authorities was not accompanied by a transfer of skills. If local authorities are expected to provide proper and long-term services (from planning to maintenance and costs analyses), they have to have access to powerful tracking tools. It’s obvious. You cannot manage what you cannot measure.
IRC, together with pS-Eau, organised the seminar ‘Monitoring and evaluation of water and sanitation services in rural areas and small towns in West Africa’ from 7 – 9 April 2014 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Around 200 experts gathered to address the growing demand from local actors for tools, expertise and guidance in order to run a sustainable service.
Experts shared their experiences and knowledge around the monitoring of water and sanitation services. For three days they had an opportunity to have an open dialogue on challenges and ways forward for monitoring and evaluation in rural areas.
Daily newsletters give short overviews of the main topics discussed and photostreams give an impression of the event.
Session: Experiences in developing national monitoring systems and the link with local communities
Session: Monitoring hygiene and sanitation services: challenges and opportunities
Session: Monitoring water services in villages and the performance of social intermediation
Session: Monitoring water services in small towns by national and international operators
Session: Technologies for monitoring WASH
Session: Monitoring of village water services: from monitoring achievements to monitoring service quality
Session: Monitoring of water networks in the peri-urban areas and in small towns
Session: Exploring options for permanent water quality monitoring
Session: From data collection pilots to sustainable monitoring
Session: From local monitoring to national monitoring of small networks
Session: Monitoring user satisfaction
Session: The implications of post-2015 on local communities
The seminar was organised with the political support of ECOWAS and the Government of Burkina Faso, with financial support of USAID, GIZ, AfDB, Agence de l’Eau Seine Normandie, Agence de l’Eau Adour Garonne, Agence de l’Eau Artois Picardie, Agence de l’Eau Rhin Meuse, Agence de l’Eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse.
