This page gives an overview of the papers and presentations that were provided on topic 5 of the 2013 symposium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Published on: 31/05/2013
This paper reviews the process and protocol for defining, reporting, declaring, certifying open defecation free (ODF) and sustaining ODF, highlighting where the process varies between countries and potential determinants of sustainability within the process itself. Critical questions include what elements (should) constitute an ODF protocol, what are the determinants of sustainability and what impact does target-setting have on achievement of ODF goals in a country?
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This paper illustrates Water For People's efforts (particularly in Malawi) to expand monitoring strategies to assess not only household outcomes, but overall sanitation market and service chain health and sustainability.
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This paper presents the outcomes of the first monitoring round (December 2012) of the BRAC WASH programme in Bangladesh. Conclusions are drawn on the possibility to use more participatory monitoring at scale that combines statistical rigor for accountability with sharing knowledge for local development.
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This paper presents the experience of Plan Uganda in monitoring for Open Defecation Free (ODF) and sustainability through empowering the local government (LG) and community structures. A three phased monitoring process over a period of 3 - 6 months is required before a community is declared ODF. The LG and community resource persons use pre-designed forms and checklists for monitoring. The community resource persons are members of village health teams, or natural or local leaders.
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The explosion of mobile technology has opened up opportunities to improve the monitoring of rural sanitation outcomes. The use of ICT to collect data on sanitation behavior and make this available almost in real time, offers potential, for large scale monitoring. A proof of concept undertaken by Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) used a mobile phone app (application) to track sanitation outputs (construction of toilets) and outcomes (behavior change). This paper describes the proof-of-concept process for using mobile to web MIS to strengthen monitoring in rural sanitation.
Within Malawi there is a movement towards Districts integrating CLTS activities directly into everyday Health Centre work without specific project funding. A promising innovation is being developed with support from Engineers Without Borders Canada that addresses the need for an effective monitoring system while working within existing resource constraints of local government. Health extension agents are grouped into 'blocks' that cover numerous villages instead of the traditional approach of a lone agent assigned to only a few villages.
This paper looks at how Plan Malawi has adopted a simple system of using natural leaders to conduct monitoring and attain open defecation free (ODF) status and retain it. The organization has concentrated its efforts on enhancing and empowering natural leaders through capacity building on monitoring for results, by following a simple data collection and monitoring process.
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The Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) is a participatory evaluation tool developed by the WASHTech project that identifies blockages likely to impact on the overall sustainability, scalability and performance of a specific WASH technology. This papers describes the challenges and opportunities of TAF in Burkina Faso.
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