IRC Symposium 2013: Monitoring sustainable WASH service delivery

Published on: 31/05/2013

The symposium was hosted by the Ministry of Water and Energy, and the Ministry of Health of the Government of Ethiopia and was organised in partnership with the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW), WaterAid, Water and Sanitation for Africa (WSA), Rural Water Supply Network (RWSN), Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC), and Water For People. On this site you can find all related materials, including all papers and presentations.

Symposium focus, programme, set-up & topics

The symposium will provide a global platform for sharing the latest initiatives, tools, indicators and experiences and will consist of parallel sessions, with plenary debates.The umbrella theme of monitoring sustainable WASH services has been organised into six different topics:

• Topic 1: Monitoring the finance needed for service delivery
• Topic 2: Government-led and country wide monitoring
• Topic 3: Project monitoring: A vicious cycle of donor accountability or necessary stepping stone to better national WASH sector monitoring?
• Topic 4: ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery
• Topic 5: Monitoring sanitation and hygiene services
• Topic 6: Global-regional-national WASH monitoring

Symposium Papers

All symposium papers available for your reading pleasure. Get in-depth information on ICT-trends in monitoring, financing for WASH monitoring, issues and solutions for monitoring sanitation & hygiene, and examples of project and country-wide monitoring. Download all the papers per topic below.

Papers on Topic 1: Monitoring the finance needed for service delivery

• Developing WASH-accounts: an overview of the UN-Water GLAAS TrackFin initiative 
• Tracking direct support and capital maintenance cost in rural water service delivery in Ghana
• Monitoring the costs of WASH contracts for unit cost analyses and improved transparency
• Measuring affordability : global indicator options for water supply 
• Applying the life-cycle costs approach in Uganda for improved financial planning and budgeting

 Papers on Topic 2: Government-led and country wide monitoring

• Institutionalising the monitoring of rural water supply services in Latin America; lessons from El Salvador, Honduras and Paraguay
• Monitoring small piped water services in West Africa : a paper presented at the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery
• Development of a national monitoring and evaluation framework for WASH activities in Malaw
• Piloting new indicators and methodologies to measure the human right to water in Nicaragua
• Development and use of service delivery indicators for monitoring rural water services

 Papers on Topic 3: Project monitoring: A vicious cycle of donor accountability or necessary stepping stone to better national WASH sector monitoring?

• Reflections on monitoring a large-scale civil society WASH initiative: lessons for sector monitoring and potential contributions from NGOs
• Making the grade: A progress report on WASH in Schools monitoring and evaluation
• Bridging project and country WASH monitoring and evaluation
• Sustainability check: Five year annual sustainability audits of the water supply and open defecation free status in the One Million Initiative, Mozambique
• Measuring more than pipes and pumps: The evolution towards levels of service and sustainability monitoring at Water For People
• The benefits of shared measurement systems: Monitoring, evaluation & learning in the MWA Ethiopia Program

Papers on Topic 4: ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery

• Considerations for the successful design & implementation of ICT systems in the WASH sector
• Moving sustainability concepts to on-the-ground improvements - the Sustainable Water Service Delivery project in Ghana
• An improved evaluation framework to support local level planning
• Re-imagine reporting: Sharing lessons to improve programmes
• Mobile data tools for improving information flow in WASH: Lessons from three field pilots
• Remote monitoring of privately managed rural water supplies using Grundfos LIFELINK
• Participatory processes for designing and implementing information and communication technology tools for the WASH sector
• Experiences with remote data collection: Using mobile phones and PCs for monitoring delivery of rural water services in Uganda

Papers on Topic 5: Monitoring sanitation and hygiene

• Developing and monitoring protocol for the elimination of open defecation in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
• From beneficiaries to businesses to the big picture: Monitoring for sustainability in market-based approaches to sanitation
• Participatory performance monitoring of sanitation and hygiene services at scale in Bangladesh
• The role of local government and community structures in Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) monitoring
• You manage what you measure: Using a mobile to web MIS to strengthen outcome monitoring in rural sanitation
• Extension Agent reorganization into a 'Block' system for CLTS - Implementation and Monitoring in Salima and Zomba Districts, Malawi
• Natural leaders energising change in villages to attain and sustain open defecation free status: A case study of Plan Malawi impact areas – Mulanje and Liliongwe disctricts (traditional authorities Juma and Njewa)
• Using the Technology Applicability Framework (TAF) tool for Urine Dry Diverting Toilet (UDDT); technology evaluation and recommendations for sustainability in Burkina Faso

Key-note on Topic 6: Global-regional-national WASH monitoring

• Building coherence in global-regional-national monitoring

Symposium Presentations

Find all the presentations from the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium, 9-11 April 2013, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia here. 

Presentations from Monday April 8, 2013: Ethiopia's National WASH Inventory

Presentations from Tuesday April 9, 2013: Symposium programme - Day 1

Presentations from Wednesday April 10, 2013: Symposium programme - Day 2

Presentations from Thursday April 11, 2013: Symposium programme - Day 3