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IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
31 May 2013
Monitoring for Learning and
developing Capacities in WASH
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Session outline
• Welcome and introductions• Monitoring for learning for improved Water Sanitation and
Hygiene (WASH): Key note• How does sector monitoring contribute to learning and
capacity development: Experience in Uganda and Honduras• Buzz and Plenary discussion • Closing
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Key NoteCarmen da Silva Wells
IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Monitoring for Learning and
developing Capacities in WASH
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Capacity in the WASH sector
Learning Monitoring
Key topics for this session
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Why focus on these topics?
• Huge challenges of WASH service provision• Need to learn, in order to do better• Scale up good practices, avoid reinventing the wheel• Capacity Development, learning and monitoring often
addressed as parallel processes• Need to strengthen these processes, seek synergies to improve
sector capacities
Sector capacities, continuous monitoring, joint reflection, analysis and adaptive action are key elements for improved performance,
better coordination and harmonisation of approaches.
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5 steps in performance measurement
What to measure
How to measure it?
How to collect data?
How to analyse and
present data?
What to do with the
data?
Source: MWLE 2004 in RWSN 2012
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Monitoring
“an ongoing process by which stakeholders obtain regular feedback on the progress being
made towards achieving their goals and objectives ”
Donaldson 2011
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Diverse actors- diverse information needs and incentives for monitoring
• Actors: • National government• Decentralized
governments• Service providers• Users, water
committees, support agencies, etc.
Multiple systems
Degree of inter-institutional cooperation
Com
plex
ity
Organisational project-level monitoring
Infrequently updated asset
inventories
Institution-based monitoring
Sector-level monitoring
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Some Lessons from IRC’s 2013 symposium
• Monitoring is: • a means to an end• a process: build on existing capacity and consider
resources needed. • There is no one-size-fits-all solution: Flexibility and
realism needed. • Monitoring requires multi-stakeholder cooperation
and trust building to support critical reflection.• Transparency and commitment to change are
needed.
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Learning…for change
The process of gaining knowledge or skills, or of
developing a desired behaviour through study,
instruction, or experience….
in order to adapt and improve service delivery.
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A sector with capacity to learn
• Requires that:• stakeholders are supported to systematically
capture and share experiences • capacity is built to reflect on lessons learned• formal structures/mechanisms are in place to
enable evidence-based learning and action • knowledge sharing, continuous learning and
improvement are encouraged through high level leadership commitment and supportive culture.
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Linking monitoring to learning: What do all these data mean?
• what is the evidence?• why has there been
success or failure?• so what are the
implications for our work?
• now who will do what about the situation?
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Sector capacity and learning
• Kinds of capacities• Human Resources • Capacity to plan,
provide O&M services/ construction support/ technical assistance
• Capacity to monitor and use evidence and lessons learned
• Levels
Organizations
Individuals
Sector/ enabling environment
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Sector capacity and capacity development
• Does the sector have the capacity to implement the monitoring system over time?
• Does the sector have the capacity to continuously use the data to improve decision making?
• Do monitoring processes assess and develop sector capacities?
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Purpose of 5th Symposium
1. What sector capacities do these monitoring processes measure?
2. How do these monitoring processes feed into sector planning and implementation?
3. Is monitoring linked to learning and corrective action encouraged?
4. What capacities have been built?
Reflections on cases presented
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Purpose of 5th Symposium
IRC’s symposium on Monitoring Sustainable WASH service delivery: http://www.irc.nl/page/72969
Discussion group on country-led monitoring : http://dgroups.org/rwsn/country_led_monitor
IRC brochure on learning and adaptive sectorhttp://www.irc.nl/page/75135
Papers for this symposium: Van Lieshout, Uytewaal & da Silva Wells and Danaert & Ssozi.
Further resources
Thank you
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Case presentation 1
Developing Capacity for Country-led Monitoring of Rural Water Supplies in Uganda
Kerstin Danert (Skat Foundation) &
Disan Ssozi (Ministry of Water and Environment)
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Case presentation 2
Developing a sector-wide comprehensive system for monitoring WASH service delivery in
Honduras
Erma Uytewaal (IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre)
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Purpose of 5th Symposium
1. What sector capacities do these monitoring processes measure?
2. How do these monitoring processes feed into sector planning and implementation?
3. Is monitoring linked to learning and corrective action encouraged?
4. What capacities have been built?
Reflections on cases presented
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Purpose of 5th Symposium
1. What is your experience on the link between learning, monitoring and capacity development?
2. What are your reflections on the presentations?
Turn to your immediate neighbour(s):
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Purpose of 5th Symposium
Thank you for your participation
[email protected] da Silva Wells
Coordinator ‘learning for change’IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
www.irc.nl / http://learningforchange.wordpress.com/