District WASH Master Planning Facility

District WASH master planning tools

Tools for assessing the current situation

There are many tools for addressing different elements of the situational analysis (water resources, service levels, service delivery models and assets, service provider performance, strength of the WASH system, expenditure) related to different sub-sectors (water, sanitation and hygiene, institutional WASH). The table below presents an overview with links to some of these tools.

Below the table, each of the tools is explained in a bit more detail, and (where available) a link is provided to (more information on) the tool.

	Element						Subsector
Tool(s)	Water resources	Service levels	Service delivery models and assets/infrastructure	Performance of service providers	Strength of local WASH systems	Current expenditure	Water	Sanitation and hygiene	Institutional WASH	WASH
Climate change assessment
IWRM and WASH toolkit
GIS tools	X		X
RIDA analysis	X	X	X				x	x
Standard mWater household survey questions		X
Water aid toolkit: Equality, non-discrimination and inclusion in WASH: a toolkit		X
Faecal Waste Flow Calculator		X						X
Sanitation Supply and Demand Tool		X	X					X
SHIT FLOW diagram tool		X						X
Water asset inventory		X	X				X
UNICEF’s sustainability check tool
Standard mWater Institutional WASH survey questions		X	X	X					X
WASH systems building block analysis tool					X					X
WASH expenditure tracking and funding gap analysis tool and guidelines: Guidelines and tool developed and ready for testing						X				X

Climate change assessment

A global tool that provides instant climate risk summary reports for any site in the world. This is based on multiple global climate change models. Recommend to use Emission scenario RCP 4.5 and time horizon to 2040.For assessing: climate change.
Sub-sector(s): water and water resources.
Available from: climateinformation.org.

IWRM and WASH toolkit
A guideline how to do water resource assessments with a focus on WASH. Toolkit consists of guidance of six step process, complete with tools and workflow.
For assessing: water resources.
Sub-sector(s): water and water resources.
Available from: Frank water and Arup.

GIS tools
GIS tools are useful for mapping water resources, as well as service delivery models and assets. Overlaying population and asset data can provide insights into service levels, especially in terms of locations of unserved populations. There are various GIS systems are available. A useful free and open-Source Geographic Information System is QGIS.
For assessing: water resources, service levels, and service delivery models and assets/infrastructure.
Sub-sector(s): water, sanitation, hygiene.
Available from: http://www.qgis.org.

RIDA analysis
RIDA (water resources, infrastructure, demand and access) is not a tool in the true sense, but rather an analytical framework that helps to structure water-related information logically and transparently. This framework can be helpful for structuring data and information in the assessment phase, but also in the strategic planning phase.
For assessing: water resources, service levels, service delivery models and assets/infrastructure.
Sub-sector(s): water, sanitation, hygiene.
Available from: https://www.musgroup.net/node/34.

Standard mWater Household survey
Household surveys are useful tools for assessing WASH service levels. mWater has compiled a number of indicators with standard questions which can be included in household and institutional surveys, for assessing service levels as per JMP standards. These can be customised as per the local context.
For assessing: service levels.
Sub-sector(s): household water, sanitation, hygiene.
Available for:
water (SDG 6.1).
sanitation (SDG 6.2a).
hygiene (SDG 6.2b).

WaterAid toolkit on equality, non-discrimination and inclusion in WASH
This resource provides practical guidance and support on reducing inequalities in programmes and advocacy work. It introduces the most important equality, non-discrimination and inclusion principles and follows them up with practical activities, tools and checklists.
For assessing: service levels.
Sub-sector(s): water, sanitation, hygiene.
Available from: Equality, non-discrimination and inclusion in WASH: a toolkit.

Faecal Waste Flow Calculator
This fast and simple-to-use tool offers an easily understood representation of the volumes of faecal waste safely dealt with in a city, at each stage of the sanitation chain and also a scorecard analysis of other more qualitative data on governance and enabling factors.
For assessing: service levels.
Sub-sector(s): sanitation.
Available from: Faecal Waste Flow Calculator.

SHIT FLOW diagram tool
An excreta flow diagram (also often described as shit flow diagram, SFD) is a tool to readily understand and communicate how excreta physically flows through a city or town.
For assessing: service levels.
Sub-sector(s): sanitation.
Available from: SHIT FLOW diagram tool.

Sanitation Supply and Demand Tool
With the help of this tool a rapid assessment can be done to understand current and potential future supply and demand for sanitation products and services.
For assessing: service levels, service delivery models and assets/infrastructure.
Sub-sector(s): sanitation.
Available from: Sanitation Supply and Demand Tool.

Water asset inventory
Data on water assets can be collected using paper-based data collection, with data recording and storage in spreadsheets (like MS Excel) or database structures (like MS Access). However, increasingly asset data is collected and managed using mobile-phone technology.
For assessing: Service levels, service delivery models and assets/infrastructure.
Sub-sector(s): water.
Available from: https://portal.mwater.co/#/dashboards/8462f8e394c14cf0850173e7123d0676.

UNICEF's sustainability check tool
This tool builds on the lessons learned from the implementation of sustainability checks in over 34 countries over the last 10 years and aims to expand the scope to the entire sector rather than conducting programme-based sustainability checks.
For assessing: service levels, service provider performance, service authority performance.
Sub-sector(s): water, sanitation and hygiene.
Available from: UNICEF's sustainability check tool.

Standard mWater Institutional WASH survey questions
Institutional WASH surveys are useful tools for assessing WASH service levels and service provider performance in schools and health care facilities. mWater has compiled a number of indicators, with standard questions which can be included in household and institutional surveys, for assessing service levels as per JMP standards. These can be customised as per the local context.
For assessing: service levels, service provider performance.
Sub-sector(s): WASH in schools, WASH in health care facilities.
Available from:
water in schools: core set and extended set of questions.
sanitation in schools: core set and extended set of questions.
hygiene in schools: core set and extended set of questions.

WASH systems building block analysis tool
IRC has developed an Excel-based tool as a quick and easy method for assessing the functioning of the building blocks of the WASH system at national and district level. Each building block is assessed by scoring statements with a score of 1-5 (with 1 standing for non-existent/very weak, and 5 meaning fully compliant/very strong). Ideally, this is combined with a root-cause analysis, which helps to discover the underlying root-causes for low scoring, weak performing building blocks, which need to be addressed in the district WASH master plan.
For assessing: systems strength at local (district) level.
Sub-sector(s): water, sanitation, hygiene, WASH in schools, WASH in health care facilities.
Available from: WASH system building blocks analysis.

WASH expenditure tracking and funding gap analysis tool and guidelines
IRC has developed a framework, guidelines and tools for assessing and monitoring expenditure on WASH at district level.
For assessing: expenditure.
Sub-sector(s): water, sanitation, hygiene, WASH in schools, WASH in health care facilities.
Available from: Guidelines and tool (beta version available on request from IRC).

Visioning tools

Tools for working with the community and stakeholders to create a joint vision and set targets.

Tools and guidance for visioning

Tools for development and assessment of long-term strategic directions

Tools for costing the long-term plan and funding strategy

Coming soon

Water service planning tool
Sanitation and hygiene planning tool
School WASH planning tool
HCF WASH planning tool
Outline of District WASH Master Plan

Monitoring tools

Tools for medium-term reviews and annual monitoring. These include the same tools as the initial assessment (see 1 above) as well as:

Service monitoring (assets, services and service provider performance)
Outcome harvesting (collecting evidence of what has changed)