This document summarizes efforts to strengthen rural sanitation programs and policies in India, Indonesia, and Tanzania between 2007-2012. It monitored key components of an enabling environment for scaling up access, including financing, institutional arrangements, product supply, and implementation approaches. Baseline and endline assessments showed most progress was made where enabling environments were strongest. Real-time monitoring helped address bottlenecks. Strengthening policies and sectors can accelerate rates of access, as demonstrated by a 3% increased rate in East Java, Indonesia. Ongoing monitoring of enabling environments is important for sustainable scaling of rural sanitation.
Day 2 panel 4 quality improvement for mnh tz 108020ea-imcha
This document provides an overview of the Quality Improvement for Maternal and Newborn Health At District-level Scale in Mtwara Region, Tanzania (QUADS) project and a proposed Synergy proposal. The QUADS project uses a quality improvement approach to strengthen health systems and improve maternal and newborn health services across three levels - community, health facility, and district. Key lessons learned include building proper attitudes towards quality improvement and integrating supportive supervision. The Synergy proposal aims to establish an electronic tool to measure quality of care, use this data to empower quality improvement processes, develop scalable change packages, and provide valuable information to decision-makers. The focus will be on electronic data collection, increasing decision-maker engagement, and
Day 2 panel 1 accessing safe deliveries tzea-imcha
The IMCHA Project called "Accessing Safe Deliveries in Tanzania (ASDIT)" aims to scale up Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrical and Newborn Care (CEmONC) in Tanzanian health centres. The project launched in April 2016 and has provided 3-month training to 20 clinicians from 5 health centres. It has collected both qualitative and quantitative data and developed data collection tools. Next steps include developing mentoring strategies, coordinating with related projects, and creating toolkit materials. The Synergy Project focuses on strengthening leadership to improve pregnancy and newborn outcomes through increasing health system capacity.
Using routine health data and a collaborative quality improvement approach, ART and PMTCT outcomes were improved in Tanzania. Key achievements include:
1) Training staff in Tanga region on quality improvement methods which increased the number of personnel able to analyze care processes and measure improvements.
2) Outcomes such as reduced loss to follow up, increased CD4 testing and enrollment in PMTCT and ART services were observed in Tanga.
3) Partners coordinated using common indicators, standards and a collaborative approach to quality improvement which strengthened capacity to assess quality changes and spread knowledge.
4) Routine facility data was used to identify problems, monitor performance, and evaluate quality improvements over time.
Presentation given at the USAID SQALE Symposium, Bridging the Quality Gap - Strengthening Quality Improvement in Community Health Services, by Charles Mito on behalf of MEASURE Evaluation PIMA. http://usaidsqale.reachoutconsortium.org/
James Andati Best Practices PresentationJames Andati
This document discusses the integrated use of data management systems to support decision making in health programs in Western Kenya. It outlines how health data is routinely collected from registers and reporting tools, aggregated into the project's Comprehensive Information Management System, analyzed, and visualized using Tableau. The data is then presented at review meetings to facilitate informed decision making. Using integrated health data systems has improved key health indicators, built community capacity to respond to needs, and strengthened linkages between facilities and communities. The document recommends continued support for data use methodologies and sharing data with counties to inform planning.
This document summarizes agricultural extension policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that most countries lack formalized extension policies. Where policies do exist, they take the form of provisional policies or decrees rather than legislated policies passed by parliament. The document reviews extension models and policies in various countries, finding inconsistencies in coverage and goals due to a lack of comprehensive policy. It outlines the typical process for formulating extension policy and recommends countries adopt legislated policies to make extension services more effective for food security and rural development.
Nutrition as part of ICCM: Evidence, Challenges and Future Directions of Re...CORE Group
1) Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) uses community health workers to treat common childhood illnesses and malnutrition where access to health facilities is limited. However, the extent to which ICCM programs actually implement nutrition interventions is unclear.
2) A review of ICCM and nutrition integration programs found that ICCM can achieve high coverage and quality of care for severe acute malnutrition, and may be cost-effective, but questions remain around motivation, policies, protocols, intervention bundles, and health systems support.
3) To address remaining evidence gaps, organizations will launch a desk review, convene a follow-up meeting, and prepare operational research plans generated through collaboration between ICCM and nutrition communities.
This presentation was given by Miriam Taegtmeyer at a meeting of the Overseas Development Institute on the 20 January 2016. In it she discusses the REACHOUT quality improvement approach.
Day 2 panel 4 quality improvement for mnh tz 108020ea-imcha
This document provides an overview of the Quality Improvement for Maternal and Newborn Health At District-level Scale in Mtwara Region, Tanzania (QUADS) project and a proposed Synergy proposal. The QUADS project uses a quality improvement approach to strengthen health systems and improve maternal and newborn health services across three levels - community, health facility, and district. Key lessons learned include building proper attitudes towards quality improvement and integrating supportive supervision. The Synergy proposal aims to establish an electronic tool to measure quality of care, use this data to empower quality improvement processes, develop scalable change packages, and provide valuable information to decision-makers. The focus will be on electronic data collection, increasing decision-maker engagement, and
Day 2 panel 1 accessing safe deliveries tzea-imcha
The IMCHA Project called "Accessing Safe Deliveries in Tanzania (ASDIT)" aims to scale up Comprehensive Emergency Obstetrical and Newborn Care (CEmONC) in Tanzanian health centres. The project launched in April 2016 and has provided 3-month training to 20 clinicians from 5 health centres. It has collected both qualitative and quantitative data and developed data collection tools. Next steps include developing mentoring strategies, coordinating with related projects, and creating toolkit materials. The Synergy Project focuses on strengthening leadership to improve pregnancy and newborn outcomes through increasing health system capacity.
Using routine health data and a collaborative quality improvement approach, ART and PMTCT outcomes were improved in Tanzania. Key achievements include:
1) Training staff in Tanga region on quality improvement methods which increased the number of personnel able to analyze care processes and measure improvements.
2) Outcomes such as reduced loss to follow up, increased CD4 testing and enrollment in PMTCT and ART services were observed in Tanga.
3) Partners coordinated using common indicators, standards and a collaborative approach to quality improvement which strengthened capacity to assess quality changes and spread knowledge.
4) Routine facility data was used to identify problems, monitor performance, and evaluate quality improvements over time.
Presentation given at the USAID SQALE Symposium, Bridging the Quality Gap - Strengthening Quality Improvement in Community Health Services, by Charles Mito on behalf of MEASURE Evaluation PIMA. http://usaidsqale.reachoutconsortium.org/
James Andati Best Practices PresentationJames Andati
This document discusses the integrated use of data management systems to support decision making in health programs in Western Kenya. It outlines how health data is routinely collected from registers and reporting tools, aggregated into the project's Comprehensive Information Management System, analyzed, and visualized using Tableau. The data is then presented at review meetings to facilitate informed decision making. Using integrated health data systems has improved key health indicators, built community capacity to respond to needs, and strengthened linkages between facilities and communities. The document recommends continued support for data use methodologies and sharing data with counties to inform planning.
This document summarizes agricultural extension policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that most countries lack formalized extension policies. Where policies do exist, they take the form of provisional policies or decrees rather than legislated policies passed by parliament. The document reviews extension models and policies in various countries, finding inconsistencies in coverage and goals due to a lack of comprehensive policy. It outlines the typical process for formulating extension policy and recommends countries adopt legislated policies to make extension services more effective for food security and rural development.
Nutrition as part of ICCM: Evidence, Challenges and Future Directions of Re...CORE Group
1) Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) uses community health workers to treat common childhood illnesses and malnutrition where access to health facilities is limited. However, the extent to which ICCM programs actually implement nutrition interventions is unclear.
2) A review of ICCM and nutrition integration programs found that ICCM can achieve high coverage and quality of care for severe acute malnutrition, and may be cost-effective, but questions remain around motivation, policies, protocols, intervention bundles, and health systems support.
3) To address remaining evidence gaps, organizations will launch a desk review, convene a follow-up meeting, and prepare operational research plans generated through collaboration between ICCM and nutrition communities.
This presentation was given by Miriam Taegtmeyer at a meeting of the Overseas Development Institute on the 20 January 2016. In it she discusses the REACHOUT quality improvement approach.
Using a theory of change to support evaluation planning for a food safety int...ILRI
This document discusses using a Theory of Change approach to support evaluation planning for a food safety intervention project in Cambodia called Safe Food Fair Food Cambodia. It presents the project's vision, mission, boundary partners, and an initial Theory of Change diagram. It also discusses monitoring and evaluating project outcomes, including through outcome harvesting and outcome mapping approaches. The document outlines some of the project's outputs and expected outcomes related to improving food safety knowledge, practices, and policies. It proposes next steps for evaluation, including a qualitative study to explore post-project impacts.
Performance budgeting in health - Caroline Penn, OECDOECD Governance
Performance budgeting refers to using performance information to inform budget decisions and increase transparency. There are different approaches, from simply presenting performance metrics separately to directly linking results and resources. In health sectors, performance information has a higher impact on budgets than average. Benefits include increased transparency, while coordination challenges are the biggest problem. Many countries now use programme budgeting, which groups expenditures by common policy objectives and outcomes and often links to national health plans. Performance budgeting frameworks are now common across OECD countries.
Developing capacity for integrated rural sanitationIRC
Erick Baetings presented the SNV-IRC experience from a capacity development programme in 15 countries in Asia and Africa for sustainable sanitation service delivery. This is part of the SSH4A programme aimed to develop the capacity of local governments to lead and accelerate progress towards district-wide sanitation and hygiene coverage with a focus on institutional sustainability and learning.
Care Group Operations Research in Burundi and Niger_Jennifer Weiss_4.23.13CORE Group
This document summarizes operations research being conducted on Care Group models in Burundi and Niger. In Burundi, the research is comparing a traditional Care Group model to an integrated model where community health workers and health facility staff are more involved in training and supervision. Preliminary results show both models achieve similar improvements in knowledge and functionality. The integrated model shows potential for improved sustainability. In Niger, the research is assessing whether Care Group leader mothers can deliver integrated community case management of common childhood illnesses. Formative research found the community is receptive and training tools are being developed. The overall goal is to test innovative Care Group approaches that can be adopted within existing health systems.
Session 3 strengthening policy engagement in imcha ppdJoshua Waema
This document summarizes a workshop organized by Partners in Population and Development (PPD) on strengthening policy engagement efforts in their Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA) program. The workshop discussed definitions of policy engagement, attributes of effective policy engagement including being evidence-based and using champions. It also addressed challenges like different policymaker backgrounds and data quality issues. The document provides examples of PPD's policy engagement achievements and opportunities to strengthen engagement, such as repackaging data, understanding policymaker priorities, and establishing partnerships.
Day 2 panel 1 community based cause of death etea-imcha
This document summarizes two projects - the IMCHA Project in Ethiopia and a Synergy Proposal linking these efforts between Ethiopia and Mozambique. For the IMCHA Project, key objectives are to generate a national catalogue of cause of death data, pilot an integrated platform to increase quality and feasibility of cause of death surveys, and provide evidence linking causes of death to maternal and child health outcomes. For the Synergy Proposal, the objectives are to build capacity for facility-based cause of death reporting, ensure knowledge translation to health programs and vital statistics institutions, and scale efforts to other priority countries. Both projects involve training health workers, customizing data collection platforms, and engaging stakeholders to strengthen cause of death data and its use
Globe med presentation, dan schwarz, march 2010nyayahealth
Nyaya Health is a non-profit organization that provides healthcare in rural Nepal. It operates Bayalpata Hospital, which offers free inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and obstetric services. Nyaya Health aims to develop a scalable model of healthcare delivery through transparency, accountability, and collaboration both within its teams and with other organizations. It shares operational data through an open-access wiki and communicates among teams using low-bandwidth technologies. Nyaya Health has also collaborated with Tiyatien Health in Liberia to enhance practices in both countries. Developing an effective model presents challenges around resources, infrastructure, and local engagement.
Globe Med Presentation, Dan Schwarz, March 2010nyayahealth
This presentation was delivered as one of the "Partnerships in Global Health Equity" workshops at the 2009 GlobeMed Summit (http://www.globemedsummit.org/) on March 6th, 2010.
Program expenditure classification - Cristina CLASARA, PhilippinesOECD Governance
The document discusses the Program Expenditure Classification Restructuring (PREXC) approach which aims to simplify the budget structure, link planning and budgeting, and measure performance. It does this by grouping all recurring activities and projects under the programs they contribute to and providing performance indicators for each program objective. This shifts the focus from line-item inputs to the intended outcomes of allocations. It also defines what constitutes a program and provides an example comparing the old and PREXC structures, showing how the PREXC approach organizes budget items by program and associated outcome indicators.
This document summarizes a study conducted in Uganda to identify barriers to the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) and test an intervention to address the key barriers. The study employed an "embedded approach" involving stakeholders throughout the research process. Formative research identified supply issues and confusion over IPTp guidelines as barriers. The study is now piloting text messages to health workers to reinforce guidelines. Early results include commitments to address identified barriers, such as providing anti-malarial drugs to private facilities and updating IPTp guidelines. The Ministry of Health is overseeing the pilot intervention and hopes to scale it nationwide if effective.
Thomas Forissier - Training of district officials in UP in the strategic use ...POSHAN
Presentation by Thomas Forissier on "Training of district officials in UP in the strategic use of data" at Developing a nutrition training roadmap to support India’s nutrition progress (17-18 Dec 2019)
Mobile health approaches aim to improve reproductive health in Kenya. Kenya has high population and maternal mortality rates with increased mobile phone and internet usage. The objective of using mobile health is to increase access to timely reproductive health information and services, improve clinical and logistical decision making, and collaborate through shared information. Initial results showed that mobile health SMS helped people access reproductive health information and learn about preventing pregnancy and infections. This led to implications like strengthened research partnerships, reduced unmet family planning needs, and increased access and awareness of reproductive health services. Recommendations include scaling innovations nationally, promoting sustainability through partnerships, and developing an eHealth strategy focused on reproductive health.
This document summarizes an analysis of Cambodia's institutional architecture for food security policy reform. It finds that the policy change process is complex, involving numerous ministries and agencies with overlapping responsibilities. It evaluates Cambodia's capacity for policy change across several areas, finding some strengths like strategic planning but also weaknesses like limited coordination, technical capacity, and mutual accountability. The analysis concludes with key recommendations to demonstrate political commitment to agriculture through increased funding and capacity, improve coordination mechanisms, and strengthen monitoring and evaluation for accountability.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on cross-cutting themes in community health from USAID's Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) 2014 cohort. It discusses USAID's commitment to ending preventable child and maternal deaths through community-based programming. Two grantee presentations showcase integrated quality improvement collaboratives in Benin and a people's institutions model in Bangladesh. A cross-cutting analysis identifies key themes of community engagement and service delivery. MCSP aims to accelerate institutionalization of community health and proposes a "Looking Glass" model of viable integrated community health platforms centered around interventions, workforce, governance, learning and support.
Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia: Scaling opportunitiesILRI
Presentation Hung Nguyen-Viet, Sothyra Tum, Chhay Ty, Melissa Young and Delia Grace at the Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project final workshop, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 21-22 June 2021.
Quality improvement and Community Health Worker performance: A mixed method r...REACHOUTCONSORTIUMSLIDES
A presentation that describes the REACHOUT approach to studying close-to-community providers with quality improvement interventions designed to improve the performance of programmes.
Small grants, big opportunities: Using the small grants mechanism to build l...MEASURE Evaluation
15 research projects were completed across multiple countries, focusing on topics like integrating family planning data and assessing quality of services. The grants improved local research capacity in areas like proposal writing, data analysis, and reporting. Findings were disseminated through reports, conferences, and online to inform programs and policies. The small grants were found to be a cost-effective way to fill local evidence gaps and promote data use for family planning.
This presentation was given at the Future Health Systems conference in Abuja, Nigeria, by our Ugandan colleagues in January 2009. www.futurehealthsystems.org
Global Health Initiative Principle on Integration_4.23.13CORE Group
This document discusses the U.S. Global Health Initiative's work on integrating global health services. It provides an overview of GHI and the Integration Working Group, which is developing tools to measure integration principles. The working group has defined integration and identified evidence gaps. It is developing a results framework, global indicators, and illustrative measures. The learning agenda will evaluate integrated service delivery models in countries and assess the value added of integration compared to standard care.
List of abstracts delivering for nutrition in india - 24 sep 2019POSHAN
1. The document provides an agenda and list of abstracts for a conference on "Delivering for Nutrition in India: Insights from Implementation Research".
2. The keynote address will provide an overview of the history and importance of implementation research in nutrition for scaling up programs effectively.
3. Several presentations will provide insights from implementation research studies on using technology and mobile apps to improve service delivery in India's ICDS nutrition program, and on data collection and use to enhance nutrition surveillance and monitoring.
Using the government health system to deliver nutrition interventions in Bang...Transform Nutrition
This presentation by Masum Billah, icddr,b was shown at the Transform Nutrition - Evidence for Action regional meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal on 8 July 2017. This one-day event shared Transform Nutrition evidence on key issues related to nutrition policy in Nepal, Bangladesh and India, lessons on strategies for change from other contexts and discuss the relevance and applicability of the research findings to policies/programmes that aim to address nutrition in South Asia.
Using a theory of change to support evaluation planning for a food safety int...ILRI
This document discusses using a Theory of Change approach to support evaluation planning for a food safety intervention project in Cambodia called Safe Food Fair Food Cambodia. It presents the project's vision, mission, boundary partners, and an initial Theory of Change diagram. It also discusses monitoring and evaluating project outcomes, including through outcome harvesting and outcome mapping approaches. The document outlines some of the project's outputs and expected outcomes related to improving food safety knowledge, practices, and policies. It proposes next steps for evaluation, including a qualitative study to explore post-project impacts.
Performance budgeting in health - Caroline Penn, OECDOECD Governance
Performance budgeting refers to using performance information to inform budget decisions and increase transparency. There are different approaches, from simply presenting performance metrics separately to directly linking results and resources. In health sectors, performance information has a higher impact on budgets than average. Benefits include increased transparency, while coordination challenges are the biggest problem. Many countries now use programme budgeting, which groups expenditures by common policy objectives and outcomes and often links to national health plans. Performance budgeting frameworks are now common across OECD countries.
Developing capacity for integrated rural sanitationIRC
Erick Baetings presented the SNV-IRC experience from a capacity development programme in 15 countries in Asia and Africa for sustainable sanitation service delivery. This is part of the SSH4A programme aimed to develop the capacity of local governments to lead and accelerate progress towards district-wide sanitation and hygiene coverage with a focus on institutional sustainability and learning.
Care Group Operations Research in Burundi and Niger_Jennifer Weiss_4.23.13CORE Group
This document summarizes operations research being conducted on Care Group models in Burundi and Niger. In Burundi, the research is comparing a traditional Care Group model to an integrated model where community health workers and health facility staff are more involved in training and supervision. Preliminary results show both models achieve similar improvements in knowledge and functionality. The integrated model shows potential for improved sustainability. In Niger, the research is assessing whether Care Group leader mothers can deliver integrated community case management of common childhood illnesses. Formative research found the community is receptive and training tools are being developed. The overall goal is to test innovative Care Group approaches that can be adopted within existing health systems.
Session 3 strengthening policy engagement in imcha ppdJoshua Waema
This document summarizes a workshop organized by Partners in Population and Development (PPD) on strengthening policy engagement efforts in their Innovating for Maternal and Child Health in Africa (IMCHA) program. The workshop discussed definitions of policy engagement, attributes of effective policy engagement including being evidence-based and using champions. It also addressed challenges like different policymaker backgrounds and data quality issues. The document provides examples of PPD's policy engagement achievements and opportunities to strengthen engagement, such as repackaging data, understanding policymaker priorities, and establishing partnerships.
Day 2 panel 1 community based cause of death etea-imcha
This document summarizes two projects - the IMCHA Project in Ethiopia and a Synergy Proposal linking these efforts between Ethiopia and Mozambique. For the IMCHA Project, key objectives are to generate a national catalogue of cause of death data, pilot an integrated platform to increase quality and feasibility of cause of death surveys, and provide evidence linking causes of death to maternal and child health outcomes. For the Synergy Proposal, the objectives are to build capacity for facility-based cause of death reporting, ensure knowledge translation to health programs and vital statistics institutions, and scale efforts to other priority countries. Both projects involve training health workers, customizing data collection platforms, and engaging stakeholders to strengthen cause of death data and its use
Globe med presentation, dan schwarz, march 2010nyayahealth
Nyaya Health is a non-profit organization that provides healthcare in rural Nepal. It operates Bayalpata Hospital, which offers free inpatient, outpatient, emergency, and obstetric services. Nyaya Health aims to develop a scalable model of healthcare delivery through transparency, accountability, and collaboration both within its teams and with other organizations. It shares operational data through an open-access wiki and communicates among teams using low-bandwidth technologies. Nyaya Health has also collaborated with Tiyatien Health in Liberia to enhance practices in both countries. Developing an effective model presents challenges around resources, infrastructure, and local engagement.
Globe Med Presentation, Dan Schwarz, March 2010nyayahealth
This presentation was delivered as one of the "Partnerships in Global Health Equity" workshops at the 2009 GlobeMed Summit (http://www.globemedsummit.org/) on March 6th, 2010.
Program expenditure classification - Cristina CLASARA, PhilippinesOECD Governance
The document discusses the Program Expenditure Classification Restructuring (PREXC) approach which aims to simplify the budget structure, link planning and budgeting, and measure performance. It does this by grouping all recurring activities and projects under the programs they contribute to and providing performance indicators for each program objective. This shifts the focus from line-item inputs to the intended outcomes of allocations. It also defines what constitutes a program and provides an example comparing the old and PREXC structures, showing how the PREXC approach organizes budget items by program and associated outcome indicators.
This document summarizes a study conducted in Uganda to identify barriers to the uptake of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy (IPTp) and test an intervention to address the key barriers. The study employed an "embedded approach" involving stakeholders throughout the research process. Formative research identified supply issues and confusion over IPTp guidelines as barriers. The study is now piloting text messages to health workers to reinforce guidelines. Early results include commitments to address identified barriers, such as providing anti-malarial drugs to private facilities and updating IPTp guidelines. The Ministry of Health is overseeing the pilot intervention and hopes to scale it nationwide if effective.
Thomas Forissier - Training of district officials in UP in the strategic use ...POSHAN
Presentation by Thomas Forissier on "Training of district officials in UP in the strategic use of data" at Developing a nutrition training roadmap to support India’s nutrition progress (17-18 Dec 2019)
Mobile health approaches aim to improve reproductive health in Kenya. Kenya has high population and maternal mortality rates with increased mobile phone and internet usage. The objective of using mobile health is to increase access to timely reproductive health information and services, improve clinical and logistical decision making, and collaborate through shared information. Initial results showed that mobile health SMS helped people access reproductive health information and learn about preventing pregnancy and infections. This led to implications like strengthened research partnerships, reduced unmet family planning needs, and increased access and awareness of reproductive health services. Recommendations include scaling innovations nationally, promoting sustainability through partnerships, and developing an eHealth strategy focused on reproductive health.
This document summarizes an analysis of Cambodia's institutional architecture for food security policy reform. It finds that the policy change process is complex, involving numerous ministries and agencies with overlapping responsibilities. It evaluates Cambodia's capacity for policy change across several areas, finding some strengths like strategic planning but also weaknesses like limited coordination, technical capacity, and mutual accountability. The analysis concludes with key recommendations to demonstrate political commitment to agriculture through increased funding and capacity, improve coordination mechanisms, and strengthen monitoring and evaluation for accountability.
This document summarizes a panel discussion on cross-cutting themes in community health from USAID's Child Survival and Health Grants Program (CSHGP) 2014 cohort. It discusses USAID's commitment to ending preventable child and maternal deaths through community-based programming. Two grantee presentations showcase integrated quality improvement collaboratives in Benin and a people's institutions model in Bangladesh. A cross-cutting analysis identifies key themes of community engagement and service delivery. MCSP aims to accelerate institutionalization of community health and proposes a "Looking Glass" model of viable integrated community health platforms centered around interventions, workforce, governance, learning and support.
Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia: Scaling opportunitiesILRI
Presentation Hung Nguyen-Viet, Sothyra Tum, Chhay Ty, Melissa Young and Delia Grace at the Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project final workshop, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 21-22 June 2021.
Quality improvement and Community Health Worker performance: A mixed method r...REACHOUTCONSORTIUMSLIDES
A presentation that describes the REACHOUT approach to studying close-to-community providers with quality improvement interventions designed to improve the performance of programmes.
Small grants, big opportunities: Using the small grants mechanism to build l...MEASURE Evaluation
15 research projects were completed across multiple countries, focusing on topics like integrating family planning data and assessing quality of services. The grants improved local research capacity in areas like proposal writing, data analysis, and reporting. Findings were disseminated through reports, conferences, and online to inform programs and policies. The small grants were found to be a cost-effective way to fill local evidence gaps and promote data use for family planning.
This presentation was given at the Future Health Systems conference in Abuja, Nigeria, by our Ugandan colleagues in January 2009. www.futurehealthsystems.org
Global Health Initiative Principle on Integration_4.23.13CORE Group
This document discusses the U.S. Global Health Initiative's work on integrating global health services. It provides an overview of GHI and the Integration Working Group, which is developing tools to measure integration principles. The working group has defined integration and identified evidence gaps. It is developing a results framework, global indicators, and illustrative measures. The learning agenda will evaluate integrated service delivery models in countries and assess the value added of integration compared to standard care.
List of abstracts delivering for nutrition in india - 24 sep 2019POSHAN
1. The document provides an agenda and list of abstracts for a conference on "Delivering for Nutrition in India: Insights from Implementation Research".
2. The keynote address will provide an overview of the history and importance of implementation research in nutrition for scaling up programs effectively.
3. Several presentations will provide insights from implementation research studies on using technology and mobile apps to improve service delivery in India's ICDS nutrition program, and on data collection and use to enhance nutrition surveillance and monitoring.
Using the government health system to deliver nutrition interventions in Bang...Transform Nutrition
This presentation by Masum Billah, icddr,b was shown at the Transform Nutrition - Evidence for Action regional meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal on 8 July 2017. This one-day event shared Transform Nutrition evidence on key issues related to nutrition policy in Nepal, Bangladesh and India, lessons on strategies for change from other contexts and discuss the relevance and applicability of the research findings to policies/programmes that aim to address nutrition in South Asia.
This powerpoint was presented by WSP Senior Sanitation and Hygiene Specialist, Yolande Coombes,during AfricaSan 3 (Kigali, Rwanda - 2011) under the "Global and Africa Experience in Scaling Up Rural Sanitation" session.
This session provided guidance to policy makers and programmers by sharing evidence, recent results and lessons regarding how to scale up effective and promising approaches such as CLTS and Sanitation Marketing.
Using the health system to deliver nutrition interventions in BangladeshTransform Nutrition
This presentation by Masum Billah, iccdr,b was shown at the Transform Nutrition - Evidence for Action regional meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal on 8 July 2017. This one-day event shared Transform Nutrition evidence on key issues related to nutrition policy in Nepal, Bangladesh and India, lessons on strategies for change from other contexts and discuss the relevance and applicability of the research findings to policies/programmes that aim to address nutrition in South Asia.
Transitioning from reach every district to reach every communityJSI
The presentation describes the expansion for routine immunization from district level to community level in Africa. Reaching remote communities is important to bring immunization to all children.
Strengthening the Supply Chain Workforce through Mentorship and On the Job Tr...JSI
This poster was presented by Hery Firdaus and Bethany Saad at the International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) in Kigali, Rwanda in November 2018.
Over the past decade, contraceptive prevalence rates in Indonesia have remained stagnant in part due to inconsistent access to contraceptives at service delivery points. To address critical gaps in the system, JSI collaborated with stakeholders to design a comprehensive package of data centric interventions to strengthen the supply chain workforce, empowering them with new tools, skills and information to enable holistic and continuous supply chain improvement through mentorship, on-the-job training and feedback.
It was noted that during qualitative interviews, provincial and district staff recognized the significant role of mentorship and on-the-job training activities in improving accuracy of recording and reporting and adherence to both inventory management and storage procedures. They pointed out the importance of not only the performance management aspect of the mentorship program, but also its effect on improving communication and coordination between levels. The use of digital tools has made mentoring data visible to all levels of the system and mentors have better understanding of the facilities needs. The use of WhatsApp to communicate has also improved collaboration and coordination between mentor and mentee. The program has been extremely successful and popular with all stakeholders and all districts involved in this project have adopted it and included it in their program budgets.
Dr. Binayak Kumar Jha has over 17 years of experience managing public health programs in India. He has expertise in areas such as immunization, maternal and child health, family planning, tuberculosis, and epidemic response. Currently he works as the Regional Routine Immunization Officer for the Meerut and Saharanpur divisions in Uttar Pradesh, where he supports immunization activities and data analysis. Previously he has held roles managing immunization, nutrition, and sanitation programs for various districts and divisions across Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
This document discusses India's progress towards achieving "Everyone Forever" (EF), which means ensuring everyone has sustainable access to water and sanitation services indefinitely. It notes that while coverage is nearly universal, over 30% of systems are not functioning properly. The document outlines factors like existing policies and investments that could support EF, but notes financing is not currently designed for long-term resilience. It proposes developing service delivery models, monitoring, and financing plans to achieve EF through collaboration between various stakeholders at national, state, district and community levels. Success would be measured by impact indicators like the percentage of people with reliable water supply meeting quality standards and user satisfaction levels.
Conclave indrajit - evidence for policy & impact - 22 apr 2016 v2.1Indrajit Chaudhuri
1) CARE India worked in Bihar through its Bihar Technical Support Program (BTSP) to reduce maternal and child health indicators like MMR, NMR, and malnutrition. It tested and implemented innovative solutions in select districts from 2010-2013.
2) Four key solutions showed successful results - sub-center meetings, quality improvement and nurse mentoring in facilities, team-based goals and incentives for frontline workers, and a comprehensive mHealth solution.
3) These solutions were adopted and scaled up by the Bihar government based on the evidence from their measurement and learning efforts. For example, sub-center meetings were scaled up statewide and the mobile nurse mentoring approach was replicated in many other states. This
The document summarizes the progress and achievements of the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM) in its first full year of work in 2013. Key points include:
- PIM restructured its work into 7 flagship projects and 1 cross-cutting flagship addressing gender, partnerships, and capacity building.
- Research activities produced publications and discussion papers while some results were applied. Relationships with partners were strengthened.
- Achievements under each flagship project are described, including new modeling work, data collection on agricultural investments, and learning platforms on technology adoption.
- The document reflects on lessons learned during PIM's initial implementation and discusses how indicators can be used
Developing a Framework and Approach for Measuring Success MEASURE Evaluation
This document discusses developing a framework to measure the success of efforts to reposition family planning in priority countries. Interviews have been conducted with key informants and organizations. A draft framework has been developed with result areas and strategies/activities. The framework will be further developed through additional data gathering, including interviews with USAID missions and organizations. Key informants generally agree on the importance of putting family planning high on the policy agenda and mobilizing resources. The framework and indicators will be further developed and then validated through stakeholder review.
‘’Institutional Capacity for Climate Action: Missing Dimensions, Integrated...IFPRI Africa
Countries in the Global South have committed to the UNFCCC's Paris Agreement and have been preparing Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) implementation and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). While they are in different stages of implementing these plans, several institutional capacity challenges need to be addressed in their progress toward a coordinated multisectoral delivery of these plans. In this presentation, we look at selected examples of institutional architecture for climate change actions and present a systematic way of studying and addressing these challenges. We bring lessons from Ghana, Malawi, Tajikistan, India, Vietnam, and Bangladesh to identify opportunities for strengthening local capacities of the policy, regulatory, investment, and governance systems. We argue multisectoral integration for climate action requires strengthening sectoral approaches and actions with climate mainstreaming, leveraging limited resources for climate action outcomes, and joint monitoring and tracking of the progress for national and global reporting.
1) The document evaluates UNICEF's sanitation program in Indonesia from 2013-2017 that aimed to strengthen and accelerate the National STBM Program to provide universal access to sanitation by 2019, with a focus on eliminating open defecation.
2) The program had interventions at the national, sub-national, and community levels working with government agencies, civil society organizations, and communities.
3) The evaluation aimed to independently assess the program's successes, challenges, and lessons to inform stakeholders like UNICEF, the Indonesian government, and other partners.
Learning from experiences and new approaches with all stakeholders is a promising component to improve investment effectiveness and also harmonisation and collaboration.
IRC with SNV Uganda and NETWAS Uganda is introducing this learning in several districts in Uganda. This power point presentation introduces the learning approach (LeaPPS) to district stakeholders.
Presentation at inception meeting for the LeaPPS programme in Uganda, July 2007
Developing the India smallholder dairy value chain impact pathway(s) ILRI
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The document summarizes the Biovision Farmer Communication Program in Africa. The program aims to improve smallholder farmer livelihoods through better access to information on sustainable agriculture innovations. It does this through a network of information channels including a website, magazine, radio show, and call center. The program works with partners to disseminate research-based information to farmers and provide training through learning centers. Its goal is to transition subsistence farmers to more productive and commercial agriculture.
Botswana's Integration of Data Quality Assurance into Standard Operating Proc...MEASURE Evaluation
The document summarizes Botswana's collaboration with MEASURE Evaluation to develop national standards for routine monitoring of health data quality. Key deliverables included standard operating procedures, a customized Routine Data Quality Assessment tool, a training curriculum, and workshops. This helped establish a process for data quality monitoring at all levels of the health system using a bottom-up approach. Feedback on the trainings was positive and districts have begun implementing data quality tracking.
Global Fund Round 9 Phase 2 HIV Project Rivers and Bayelsa States Update ReportJohn Bako
The document provides an update report on the Society for Family Health Nigeria's Global Fund HIV Round 9 Phase 2 Project in Rivers and Bayelsa States. It summarizes the project's contributions to the states' strategic plans, including reaching over 16,500 people with HIV counseling and testing, distributing over 400,000 male condoms to most-at-risk populations, and training 1,193 peer educators and 237 teachers. It also discusses challenges faced such as frequent teacher transfers and security issues in some areas, and recommendations to address these challenges.
Session Building from WASH to IWRM - photo galleryIRC
On 15 October 2023, by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Bangladesh and IRC organised a panel session titled Building WASH into IWRM at the 9th International Conference on Water and Flood Management (ICWFM 2023).
The session drew examples from three NGO-led diverse WASH programmes intervening in different regions and different administrative settings of Bangladesh. The three NGOs that shared their programme experiences were BRAC, SNV and the Max Foundation.
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The document summarizes photos taken in 2023 of the sewage plant in Norton, Zimbabwe. The plant was originally constructed in the 1950s but had fallen into disrepair by 2017. It underwent refurbishment with support from Welthungerhilfe to repair damaged infrastructure like leaking sewage pipes. The conventional treatment plant includes intake works, primary clarifiers, trickling filters, humus tanks, and sludge drying beds. While parts of the system have been repaired, the partially treated sewage still flows directly to nearby farms from the holding ponds.
Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan ImplementationIRC
The Water Development Commission shared the experience with the Climate Resilient Water Safety Plan (CR WSP) implementation approach in Ethiopia during a learning workshop. This workshop was held in Adama, Ethiopia, on 23 September 2021.
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Overview of enabling environment and implementation of climate resilient WASH IRC
Presentation given by the Ethiopian Water Development Commission during the Climate Resilient WASH workshop in Adama, Ethiopia. This workshop was held on 23 September 2021.
The document summarizes ways that households in sub-Saharan Africa develop self-supplied water sources through methods like wells, rainwater harvesting, and springs. It discusses how households incrementally improve their water systems over time. It also outlines three ways self-supply can be supported: 1) through technical advisory services and guidelines, 2) by strengthening the private sector, and 3) with policies and budgets to aid households in construction and supply improvement. The document promotes a new book on self-supply and filling gaps in public water provision.
Self-supply refers to households taking responsibility for developing their own water sources through various methods like digging wells, collecting rainwater, or protecting springs. This document outlines the key reasons households pursue self-supply due to issues with public water systems like long wait times. It then describes common self-supply methods in Sub-Saharan Africa like family wells and rainwater harvesting. The document emphasizes that self-supply should be supported through technical advice, private sector development, and policies that help households improve their water sources over time.
This short document encourages the reader to take a second to think about how they can help transform billions of lives but provides no other context or details. It is unclear from the text alone what specific actions or causes the reader is being asked to consider to help transform lives at a global scale.
Webinar : Adapting your advocacy to COVID-19 health crisisIRC
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing development programmes to rapidly readjust their advocacy strategy to support local or national governments in their emergency planning. The Watershed empowering citizens programme organised a webinar attended by over 60 participants on 15 April 2020, to discuss and learn about: ways to adapt advocacy approaches in time of COVID-19; practical examples of shifting activities at national and local levels; ways to reach your target audience while social distancing; ways to adapt your messaging, keeping Watershed priorities through the lens of COVID-19.
This report includes the webinar Powerpoint presentations and some recommendations based on the Q&A session. The titles and authors of the presentations are: "Why is strong advocacy essential during a crisis?" by Evita Rosenberg (IRC); "Watershed Bangladesh : adapting advocacy approaches during COVID 19 outbreak" by Ranjan Kumar Ghose (WaterAid Bangladesh); and "Adapting advocacy approaches in Kenya "by Patrick Mwanzia (Simavi Kenya).
Novel partnership between NWSC and Kabarole District to provide safe water to...IRC
Pius Mugabi of the Kabarole District Local Government, Martin Watsisi and Angela Huston of IRC and Denis Maramuzi, Area Manager of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC), Fort Portal, Kabarole worked together on preparing a presentation for the 20th AfWA International Congress and Exhibition in Uganda.
Their presentation focused on a new partnership between NWSC and Kabarole District to extend NWSC’s piped network to provide safe water to communities in the hard-to-reach Kabende sub county. This novel public-public partnership is part of the increasing trend of rural utilisation. NWSC is extending into more small towns and rural growth centres with a broadened mandate and through the SCAP100 Programme will reach 12,000 new villages during 2017-2020.
Interested in more information on the case of Kabende sub county in Kabarole district and the progress so far? Check the presentation slides.
Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS) Conflict sensitivity support and tools. Referenced in the IRC WASH debate "Sustainable WASH service delivery and local WRM in fragile states: how far can you get?" which took place 20 November 2019 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Watershed Mali : strengthening civil society for sustainable WASH-IWRM in MaliIRC
The political crisis and insecurity existing in Mali since 2012 has had a negative impact on the country’s water and sanitation sector. Normative frameworks are non-existent or unknown, polices and laws are not enforced, water quality is hardly monitored and budget commitments are unclear. The lack of knowledge about the human rights to water and sanitation has led to poor accountability, and civil society organisations (CSOs) lack capacity to advocate and lobby for better services.
Within the above context, the Watershed empowering citizens Mali country programme focuses on two main issues: (1) water quality and waste management and (2) universal access to sustainable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. So far the programme has been able to enhance the capacities, credibility and audience of water and sanitation CSOs, including the Alliance Citoyenne Pour l’Eau et l’Assainissement (ACEA-Mali). A multi-stakeholder forum has been established and coalitions of CSOs, local government and media have been strengthened, which can mobilise stakeholders, including Parliament.
Because there enough water and faecal sludge disposal is not seen as a problem in rural areas, there is little incentive to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and water resources management (WRM). Watershed is trying to stimulate integration by developing a handbook and guideline in combination with collaboration with CSO networks and donor-funded programmes.
Issues emerging from the Watershed Mali programme include how CSOs can influence decision makers to increase national WASH budget allocations infragile states, how to harmonise the institutional and legal frameworks of the WASH and WRM sectors, how to encourage innovation.
A joint presentation by Afou Chantal Bengaly (Wetlands International) and Ele Jan Saaf (SaafConsult) at the WASH Debate "Sustainable WASH service delivery and local WRM in fragile states: how far can you get?", in The Hague, the Netherlands on 20 November 2019.
WASH systems strengthening in the Central African RepublicIRC
Water for Good (WFG) works exclusively in the Central African Republic (CAR), a country facing extreme economic fragility. The road blocks set up by the non-state armed groups, which control nearly 80% of the territory, have a significant impact on the country's economy. WFG has been operating in the CAR since 2004, initially as a borehole drilling organisation, and shortly thereafter, as a handpump maintenance service provider. It has created a circuit rider approach for preventative maintenance and uses an electronic reporting system.
After joining Agenda for Change in 2017, WFG opted to adopt IRC's systems approach to go beyond their preventative maintenance programme and work towards universal, sustainable access. WFG opted to pilot a district-wide approach in Mambéré-Kadéi, while maintaining periodic preventative maintenance in other prefectures. In the pilot area, WFG focused on the following system blocking blocks: infrastructure, monitoring, finance, planning and institutions. At the same time it is helping to build up regional capacity for systems strengthening.
In conclusion, WFG believes it is possible to strengthen systems in fragile states, thanks to their organisation's long-term presence in CAR, their ability to plug short-term projects into the larger roadmap, and their ability to work with systems champions. The intention is not to build parallel systems, but to champion a roadmap that is both supported by all WASH stakeholders and adequately funded.
Presentation by David De Armey, Director of International Partnerships, Water for Good at the WASH Debate "Sustainable WASH service delivery and local WRM in fragile states: how far can you get?", in The Hague, the Netherlands on 20 November 2019.
Finding the flow in fragile contexts : IWRM in MaliIRC
What has World Waternet learned by implementing an integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach in Mali? In the Blue Deal Dji Don project, World Waternet supports the Agence Nationale de Gestion des Stations d’Épuration du Mali (ANGESEM) to improve wastewater management. Presentation by Annette Rozendaal-Morón, World Waternet at the WASH Debate "Sustainable WASH service delivery and local WRM in fragile states: how far can you get?", in The Hague, the Netherlands on 20 November 2019.
This presentation by Ambrose Kibuuka is a part of IRC’s in-house “What’s for Lunch series”, It reviews progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for sanitation and hygiene, sector trends focusing on Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) and sanitation marketing, and how rich nations achieved universal access to sanitation. It also briefly looks at WASH linkages with climate change, stunting, nutrition, and gender and social inclusion. The presentation concludes that unsafely managed sanitation, especially in rural areas, remains a challenge in developing countries as a result of population growth, climate change and the lack of funding for on-site sanitation and faecal sludge removal. Systems strengthening (in particular access to financing) and strong public commitment are required to achieve universal access to sanitation by 2030. The presentation includes a list of 21 references.
Social accountability : civil society and the human rights to water and sanit...IRC
The Watershed programme supports civil society organisations (CSOs) both on normative content (and claiming their rights if not yet met) as well as supporting CSOs to engage in the procedural part/principles of human rights to water and sanitation. The social accountability approach used by Watershed is based on the principles of access to information, non-discrimination, accountability and participation. The role of CSOs includes holding government to account for their obligation to ensure that everyone’s human rights are fulfilled, protected and respected. For this Watershed uses the Social Accountability Model developed by Water Witness International. Conclusions and reflection are provided on how this model has been used in Kenya and Bangladesh. Presentation by Esther de Vreede, Simavi, at the WASH Debate “Dialogue and dissent: Looking at the role of civil society in achieving SDG 6 by 2030”, in The Hague, the Netherlands on 26 June 2019.
Wash Debates: Looking at the role of civil society in achieving SDG 6 by 2030IRC
What can civil society organisations do to advance progress towards SDG 6? What are the major obstacles that impede their efforts and more importantly, how can they be overcome?
Images from the IRC WASH Debates series, which took place 26 June 2019 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
The end of the poldermodel? : the role of dissent in Dutch international wate...IRC
The Dutch NGO Both Ends is involved in two Strategic Partnerships for Dialogue & Dissent funded by the Netherlands government. One of them, the Fair Green & Global (FGG) Alliance, support capacity building of civil society organisations (CSOs) to effectively voice their views and hold policymakers and companies to account. The role of dissent is seen to contribute towards equality, equity and justice. The lessons learned by the FGG Alliance to address the concerns of Indonesian CSOs regarding land reclamations in Jakarta Bay Masterplan will be taken up to support CSO involvement in the Manila Bay Sustainable Development Masterplan in the Philippines. The challenges and opportunities for CSO involvement in Dutch-funded interventions in developing countries are briefly outlined. Presentation by Giacomo Galli at the WASH Debate “Dialogue and dissent: Looking at the role of civil society in achieving SDG 6 by 2030”, in The Hague, the Netherlands on 26 June 2019.
Voice for Change Partnership : roles of CSOs in achieving SDG6IRC
The Voice for Change Partnership (V4CP) programme is a capacity development programme for civil society organizations (CSOs) in six countries across four areas including water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). VCP is a partnership between DGIS, SNV, IFPRI (International Food Policy and Research Institute) and CSOs. The capacity development activities focus on evidence creation and dissemination, and evidence-based advocacy. In Kenya, the V4CP WASH component supports CSO advocacy for improved stakeholder participation and coordination, increased budget allocation, and influencing policy review and development. CSOs used evidence from GIS mapping and the water testing to convince county governments to take action to improve sanitation. The data collected was also used to advocate for increased sanitation investment participatory budgeting. The presentation concludes with challenges and lessons learnt from the Kenya the V4CP WASH component. Presented at the WASH Debate “Dialogue and dissent: Looking at the role of civil society in achieving SDG 6 by 2030”, in The Hague, the Netherlands on 26 June 2019.
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How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
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LAND USE LAND COVER AND NDVI OF MIRZAPUR DISTRICT, UPRAHUL
This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
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Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering.pptxDenish Jangid
Chapter wise All Notes of First year Basic Civil Engineering
Syllabus
Chapter-1
Introduction to objective, scope and outcome the subject
Chapter 2
Introduction: Scope and Specialization of Civil Engineering, Role of civil Engineer in Society, Impact of infrastructural development on economy of country.
Chapter 3
Surveying: Object Principles & Types of Surveying; Site Plans, Plans & Maps; Scales & Unit of different Measurements.
Linear Measurements: Instruments used. Linear Measurement by Tape, Ranging out Survey Lines and overcoming Obstructions; Measurements on sloping ground; Tape corrections, conventional symbols. Angular Measurements: Instruments used; Introduction to Compass Surveying, Bearings and Longitude & Latitude of a Line, Introduction to total station.
Levelling: Instrument used Object of levelling, Methods of levelling in brief, and Contour maps.
Chapter 4
Buildings: Selection of site for Buildings, Layout of Building Plan, Types of buildings, Plinth area, carpet area, floor space index, Introduction to building byelaws, concept of sun light & ventilation. Components of Buildings & their functions, Basic concept of R.C.C., Introduction to types of foundation
Chapter 5
Transportation: Introduction to Transportation Engineering; Traffic and Road Safety: Types and Characteristics of Various Modes of Transportation; Various Road Traffic Signs, Causes of Accidents and Road Safety Measures.
Chapter 6
Environmental Engineering: Environmental Pollution, Environmental Acts and Regulations, Functional Concepts of Ecology, Basics of Species, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Hydrological Cycle; Chemical Cycles: Carbon, Nitrogen & Phosphorus; Energy Flow in Ecosystems.
Water Pollution: Water Quality standards, Introduction to Treatment & Disposal of Waste Water. Reuse and Saving of Water, Rain Water Harvesting. Solid Waste Management: Classification of Solid Waste, Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Solid. Recycling of Solid Waste: Energy Recovery, Sanitary Landfill, On-Site Sanitation. Air & Noise Pollution: Primary and Secondary air pollutants, Harmful effects of Air Pollution, Control of Air Pollution. . Noise Pollution Harmful Effects of noise pollution, control of noise pollution, Global warming & Climate Change, Ozone depletion, Greenhouse effect
Text Books:
1. Palancharmy, Basic Civil Engineering, McGraw Hill publishers.
2. Satheesh Gopi, Basic Civil Engineering, Pearson Publishers.
3. Ketki Rangwala Dalal, Essentials of Civil Engineering, Charotar Publishing House.
4. BCP, Surveying volume 1
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Monitoring policy and sector national reform to accelerate and sustain access to improved rural sanitation
1. Monitoring Policy and Sector National Reform to
Accelerate and Sustain Access to Improved Rural Sanitation
April 2013 • Eddy Perez
2. • Partnership with governments in India, Indonesia, Tanzania
• Start at Scale – use as learning laboratory to gain evidence to
reform policies, sectors and practices
• Government owned and led
• Technical support from WSP
• Strong explicit learning component and knowledge
management
Global Learning Project (2007 – 2012)
Learning=>Knowledge => Action
5. Monitoring the Development
of an Enabling Environment for a
Government Led Scaling Up Rural
Sanitation Programs in
India, Indonesia and Tanzania
This Presentation will describe and discuss:
6. Strengthen the Enabling Environment:
Eight Key Components
Financing and Incentives
This dimension assesses the adequacy of
arrangements for financing the programmatic
costs. These costs include training, staff
salaries, transportation, office equipment and
supplies, and the development of
communication and education materials as
well as line items in budgets for program and
promotion activities.
8. Baseline assessment in 2007
TA action plan to address
weaknesses based on assessment
Large Scale pilot as learning
laboratory
Endline assessment in 2010
Monitoring and strengthening
enabling environment continuing
>2010
9. Institutional Arrangements - Tanzania
National lead institution identified
for Rural sanitation
Roles and Responsibilities for
sanitation are clear
Coordination mechanisms are
established
Dedicated budget lines
Clear operational structure and
capacity
10. Availability of Sanitation Products and
Services - Indonesia
Products and services respond to
consumer preferences
Improved supply chain
Products available and affordable
for all economic categories of
consumers
Products available with
appropriate marketing and quality
assurance controls
Innovative products and services
developed
11. Cost-Effective Implementation - Himachal
Pradesh, India
Awareness of cost-effectiveness
implementation taking place
Cost-Effective assessment
system in place
Cost-effective assessment
capacity in place
[some] Cost data collected,
analyzed, and utilized
[some] Cost-effectiveness data
used for future rural sanitation
planning
12. Program Methodology - Madhya
Pradesh, India
Demand led programmatic
approach establish (by National
Government)
Program methodology adopted by
State government
[some] Programmatic approach
adopted by local governments
Demand led programmatic
methodology implemented
13. Baseline and Endline Assessment for Rural
Sanitation Sector in India, Indonesia and Tanzania
Progress Was Made
14. Monitoring the Enabling Environment
So What?
East Java
Rural Population
19,918,491
Evidenced Based Learning Laboratory For Sanitation
Service Delivery to Feed into Policies and Practices
16. Rate of increase in access in Rural Sanitation
in East Java was Accelerated by over 3%
Proportion of HHs
have access to
improved sanitation
Average yearly
increase
1993-2008
Average yearly
increase
2009 - 2011
Rural 1.42% 4.85%
17. 0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 2055 2060 2065 2070 2075 2080 2085
%ofHouseholdswithImprovedSanitation
Current Trend of
0.87% per year
Accelerated Trend
of 3.0% per year
Accelerated Trend
of 2.0% per year
Source: Joint Monitoring Program
20802030
MDG Target
2040
Current and hypothetical rates of sanitation access increase in Rural Indonesia
Acceleration of Access in Indonesia
18. Horizontal Scaling: Graphic Expansion
to More Similar Areas
Central Java 18,155,819
West Java 14,840,945
West Nusa Tenggara 2,683,713
Bali 1,554,590
East Java 19,918,491
19. Government Scaling Up to
31 Province
Horizontal Scaling: Graphic Expansion
to More Similar Areas
20. Selected Learnings
Countries/States with the strongest enabling environment at
endline made the most progress in terms of increasing access to
improved sanitation and stopping open defecation.
Real time monitoring of the enabling environment helped identify
bottlenecks that needed be addressed at the national policy and
sector level – resulting in strengthening the enabling environment
21. Key Take-Away Messages
A solid methodology for carrying out a comprehensive assessment
and ongoing monitoring of the enabling environment exists and is
now being used in multiple countries
A strong enabling environment is key for a sustainable sanitation
program that will enable governments to accelerate access to
improved sanitation.
22. For more information:
wsp.org
@WSPworldbank
This presentation was based on the WSP
Working Paper, Policy and Sector Reform
to Accelerate Access to Improved Rural
Sanitation.
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Editor's Notes
We all know the numbers about the billions of people that are still without access to sanitation. And those of us involved in the Post 2015 goals discussion are painfully aware that the current rates of increase in sanitation access will requires up to 50 more years in many countries to reach universal access for basic improved sanitation. In the Recent SWA High Level Meeting, Ministers of Finance, Water and health called for acceleration of the rates of increase in sanitation. In 2007, global sector discourse was mostly about programmatic approaches such as CLTS and Sanitation Marketing – in isolation of how these programmatic approaches could be integrated into and supported by public systems. WSP then developed a new conceptual framework of an enabling environment for a sustainable large scale national rural sanitation programThe purpose of this presentation is to share with you the findings and key learnings from our research to assess whether or not the enabling environment for scaling up rural sanitation in India, Indonesia and Tanzania were strengthened during the three year period between 2007 and 2010 as a result of government efforts with technical support from WSP and other development partners.
Discuss challenges: scaling up rural sanitation and sustainability.
To think differently, and help national and sub-national government accelerate progress there focusing on four areas to focus on:First is to strengthening the enabling environment to implement national sustainable sanitation programsSecond is to focus on behavior change to create genuine demand sanitation, so that good sanitation is as appealing as cell phones and TVsThird is we need to work with domestic private sector to strengthen supply of sanitation goods and services to those who don’t have accessAnd fourth we need to help governments learn about what works and doesn’t work on real time basis.
In addition to the AT SCALE programs, what could we do to create conditions for national level programs and accelerate access across the country? From 1963 – 1977, Thailand was working at scale – but still only had 40% coverage and rates of access began to stagnateStarting in 1981, GOT reformed the sector and accelerated increase in access (almost double) and in affect reached universal access by 1997What we know of from Thailand is that they worked on the enabling environment components, and the nice thing about their example is that is shows what is possible in the future at national scale. The government committed itself to focusing on sanitation and made significant progress accelerating the rate of increase from 2.7 to 4.2% so what did they do differently: Examples:They had a dedicated institution supported with financing, built capacity of health staff and community volunteers, and had a clear policy. The Thai government also added a partnership with the private sector an great example of this is the partnership with American Standard a company that makes toilets The government also had a good M&E system that allowed to see when the rate of growth started to stagnate and then they revised their strategy helping with real time learning. It is countries like Thailand that give us the evidence from the past, that our theory of change can make a difference for other countries in the future.
In order to learn more about enabling environments and how to strengthen them and to ensure consistency across various countries in the assessment findings, WSP developed a conceptual framework of what would a strong enabling environment look like for a sustainable large scale/national program for rural sanitationThis initial concept was based on the experiences in other countries to date, literature review and discussion with country and development partner stakeholders. Our framework ended up with 8 components and we defined each component. Examples:1 Policy, Strategy, and DirectionEstablishing a shared vision and strategy and ensuring the political will to implement a program is the starting point for scale up. Developing this shared vision and strategy in a collaborative manner is also the foundation for coordination and for creating motivation at all levels. Policy is defined as the “set of procedures, rules, and allocation mechanisms that provide the basis for programs and services. Policies set the priorities and often allocate resources for implementation. Policies are reflected in laws and regulations, economic incentives, and the assignment of rights and responsibilities for program implementation.2. Institutional ArrangementsIn order for the total sanitation and sanitation marketing approaches to be scaled up, the right institutions must be in place with all key roles and functions covered and clearly understood. These institutions must also have the resources to carry out their roles. In addition to clear roles and responsibilities, institutional arrangements include the mechanisms for actors at all levels to coordinate their activities and establish partnerships between the public, private, and non-governmental organization (NGO) sectors, and between communities and local governments.5 Availability of Products and ServicesThe ability of target consumers to adopt the promoted behavior(s) is highly dependent on the existence and availability of products and services that respond to consumer preferences and consumers’ willingness and ability to pay for them. Any and all relevant products and services need to be considered, specific to each country situation. [NB: As each project area will be conducting market surveys andmarket analysis in conjunction with the private-sector partners, this assessment dimension will be dealt with in broad, general terms with a focus on the government’s role and its policy implications.]6. Financing and IncentivesThis dimension assesses the adequacy of arrangements for financing the programmatic costs. These costs include training, staff salaries, transportation, office equipment and supplies, and the development of communication and education materials as well as line items in budgets for program and promotion activities.8. Monitoring and EvaluationLarge-scale sanitation programs require regular monitoring and periodic evaluation and, perhaps more importantly, the willingness and ability to use the monitoring process to make adjustments in the program. Effective monitoring will identify strengths and weaknesses in the program methodology, implementation arrangements, and cost efficiencies. Overall monitoring responsibility must be at the highest level of the program, but must be based on information collected at the local government or community level.
Baseline in 2007 based on EE framework and related dimensionsThese assessments took a deep look at the rural sanitation sector conditions in each of the countries and compared that to what was felt was needed to rapidly scale up and sustain programmatic and sanitation service delivery approaches. Theresearch aim was to assess the strengths and weaknesses of each component of the enabling environment framework. This was a rigorous qualitative assessment via formal interviews with senior policy makers and wide range of stakeholders The assessment was carried out by a small international and national team of consultants with significant experience in policy issues in the sanitation sector Based on the baseline findings, each country developed a specific action plan to address weaknesses in the enabling environment. On average, WSP country teams spent between 30% to 50% of their LOE on providing TA to the governments ( both at national, regional and state level) to strengthen the EE. The rest of the time was spent provided technical support to the local governments that were implementing the At Scale pilots.WSP team also helped facilitate explicit learning and document and share the learningsLarge Scale Project serves as learning laboratory providing evidence for policy making and also identifying bottlenecks not captures in initial EE baseline assessmentEndline in 2010. Assessed progress made in strengthening the enabling environment and identified further areas of work,2010 – 2012: Efforts to strengthen the enabling environment in each country have continued and are largely based on the
At baseline, rural sanitation responsibilities in Tanzania were spread across four ministries. Endine: The Ministry of Health, (MOH) was designated as the lead agency for rural sanitation.MOU established a coordination mechanism for the four ministries (Health, Water, Education and, Irrigation) Roles and responsibilities were clarified for each Ministry
Baseline: Available products do not respond to consumer preferenceIn Indonesia, between 2007 – 2010, the focus was on improving quality, availability, and affordability of existing products and services and on linking demand creation with marketing activities. Various activities were carried out to strengthen the supply of sanitation products and services:Consumer research using a sanitation specific sanitation behavior change framework (SaniFoam)Development of behavior change communications materials that could be used by local governmentsDevelopment of a social marketing materials that could be used by local private sectorDevelopment of a sanitation entrepreneur model uses a business aggregator approach to connect household demand with material suppliers and service providers. These entrepreneurs employ trained masons to install latreins. Entrepreneurs offers a one-stop shop where customers can organize larine construction in one visit – making the shop responsible for he purchase and delivery of materials and supervision of the installation of the selected latrine modelMarket offers a range of sanitation products as a wide price range including lower cost solutions that were affordable to lower income groups BUT could be subsequently upgraded to address aspirations as incomes allowed. The local government played a lead role in facilitating the generation of demand for sanitation products and services – but there was little evidence of local government regulating the local market to assure quality of services from the local private sector provider.
Overall, the cost-effectiveness component remains a major gap in all three countries in large measure because of a lack of systems to collect program cost data. Even in India, where both TSC and NGP encourage the development of performance monitoring systems, data to inform cost-effectiveness implementation are not comprehensively collected. As of 2010, there were no systematic systems to collect cost data and the planned for cost-effectiveness analysis was not yet completed (forthcoming in late 2012). HP DOES report on cost per ODF community and the cost per latrine in use. - but does not provide the detailed cost information to inform specific program decisionsA limitation in HP ( and all three countries) is the lack of mechanism for capturing the cost of government involvement, especially for labor
Between 2007 and 2010, improved program methodologies were used in all project areas – with the exception of Mahdya PradeshIn MP, the majority of the local districts continue to use a supply-driven approach to build toilets through local contractors With limited effort to change behaviors. Political resistance at the State level remains despite policies and guidance from the national level
Describe table and what it meansImprovements in the Enabling Environment was found in all 4 countries – but other than HP, more work was needed in 2010. Both Indonesia and Tanzania started from a very low basis and made significant progress in almost all of the areas. By contrast, MP did not progress in multiple areas.
Baseline: Available products do not respond to consumer preferenceIn Indonesia, between 2007 – 2010, the focus was on improving quality, availability, and affordability of existing products and services and on linking demand creation with marketing activities. Various activities were carried out to strengthen the supply of sanitation products and services:Consumer research using a sanitation specific sanitation behavior change framework (SaniFoam)Development of behavior change communications materials that could be used by local governmentsDevelopment of a social marketing materials that could be used by local private sectorDevelopment of a sanitation entrepreneur model uses a business aggregator approach to connect household demand with material suppliers and service providers. These entrepreneurs employ trained masons to install latreins. Entrepreneurs offers a one-stop shop where customers can organize larine construction in one visit – making the shop responsible for he purchase and delivery of materials and supervision of the installation of the selected latrine modelMarket offers a range of sanitation products as a wide price range including lower cost solutions that were affordable to lower income groups BUT could be subsequently upgraded to address aspirations as incomes allowed. The local government played a lead role in facilitating the generation of demand for sanitation products and services – but there was little evidence of local government regulating the local market to assure quality of services from the local private sector provider.
Countries/States with the strongest enabling environment at endline made the most progress in terms of increasing access to improved sanitation and stopping open defecation.The existence of a government led pilot program working at large scale was effective in providing evidence to strengthen political will and for identifying bottlenecks that needed be addressed at the national policy and sector level.While all components of the enabling environment are important, not all are equally amenable to external intervention and therefore take time to address. A functioning national M&E system will likely be beyond the grasp of most countries in the near future. Strengthening the EE takes time and progress is often not linear. Progress continued to be made in each country after the 2010 baseline — but is still a work in progress in 2012 (except for HP).
EE assessments being carried out by WSP in partnership with country government partners and development partners in 9 additional countriesUNICEF applied conceptual framework and assessment methodology in PhilippinesDFID applied conceptual framework and assessment methodology in Vietnam