The 5-year (2018-2022) WASH SDG programme is under implementation in Ethiopia's Shashamane and Negelle Arsi woredas. The programme is financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of the Netherlands (DGIS) and implemented by Amref, Wetlands International (WI), Bole Baptist Biblical...
The objective of Action Research for Learning was to strengthen the capacities of the selected partners for action research, analysis, reporting and learning.
Having local researchers work with local stakeholders on the development of monitoring tools has been an important success of the Action Research for Learning programme.
Thinking critically about how you do your work and seeing the bigger picture towards which you are working, can improve the effectiveness of your work.
What about looking deep into on-going WASH programmes and analysing their strengths and weaknesses? What about designing innovative ways of measuring the effectiveness of these approaches? And what about testing adjustments to their activities to make the interventions even more effective?