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Symposium Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery
Background paper for “Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium”
By: Stef Smits, Ton Schouten, Harold Lockwood and Catarina FonsecaWith contributions from Kerstin Danert and Piers Cross
Monitoring WASH services means different things to
different people
Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium
Source: MWE 2009
Why? – purposes for monitoring• Project cycle monitoring• Project or programme result monitoring• Inventories for asset management• Service delivery monitoring• Monitoring the enabling environment• Value for money
Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium
What? – scope of monitoring
Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium
Who? – responsibilities and incentives• Multiplicity of purposes with an even larger number of
organisations involved– Who needs to know– Who needs to provide information
• Increased interdependency between the two groups– Between levels – In sequence, incl timing
• Adds complexity, and if not managed well, monitoring becomes an extra burden: reporting
• Need to look at (dis)incentives
Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium
Who? – responsibilities and incentives
Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium
Degree of inter-institutional cooperation
Com
plex
ity
Organisational project-level monitoring
Infrequently updated asset
inventories
Institution-based monitoring
Sector-level monitoring
How? – steps in monitoring
How? – information systems
• Requires often algorithms, indices and/or scoring• Applied in consistent manner• Documentation of how these are defined - avoid black
box
What Definition Example Example
Criterion The broad category of what you want to monitor
Financial performance Access
Indicator State or level of that broad category
Financial balance of service provider
Coverage
Parameter Measurable factor(s) which make up the indicator
Starting balanceIncome and expenditure of last period
# of people per facilityType of facility (improved or not)
How? – information systems
• Information and communication technologies
Vision Strong national sector monitoring systems that allow planning and sustaining WASH services
•Engrained in national sector institutions, with mandate to carry out monitoring, act upon results and provide accountability over them•Clear institutional arrangements and incentives, with dedicated financial and human resource capacity•Information systems: clear indicator sets that can capture complexities of WASH service delivery supported by ICT
Trends towards achieving vision• From tracking increase in access to monitoring service delivery
– Achievement of MDGs
– Human rights framework
– Increased focus on service delivery
• From project monitoring to sector level monitoring• Increased demand for accountability over service delivery and
use of public funds– Citizens voices
– Aid effectiveness agenda
• Rapid developments in ICT applications– Reducing costs and time lags in data management
• Global monitoring initiatives
Challenges• Additional complexities of monitoring
service delivery, particularly around sanitation and hygiene effectiveness
• Governance of monitoring:– Assumption of willingness to share data
– Of monitoring processes
– Of information systems
• Capacity for monitoring and use it for action: human and financial resources
• Alignment of global and regional monitoring
…and this is where the symposium comes in
6 topics• Monitoring the finance needed for service delivery (Catarina
Fonseca, IRC)• Country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns
water supplies (Kerstin Danert, RWSN)• Project monitoring: A vicious cycle of donor accountability or a
necessary stepping stone to better national WASH sector monitoring? (Harold Lockwood, Aguaconsult)
• ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery (Joseph Pearce, Wateraid)
• Monitoring for sanitation and hygiene (Carolien van der Voorden, WSSCC)
• Building coherence in global-regional-national WASH monitoring (Piers Cross with UN-Water GLAAS)
Guiding the discussion
• Use this and the topic keynote papers as a framework – but flexibly, and suggest additions and improvements
• Relate your examples and experience to the trends and challenges towards the achievement of the vision
• Monitoring the discussion
Have a good symposium!
Symposium Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery