Prepared by Elynn Walter, WASH Advocates for the Monitoring Sustainable WASH Service Delivery Symposium, 9 - 11 April 2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

1. Making the Grade
A Progress Report on WASH in Schools
Monitoring and Evaluation
Elynn Walter
WASH in Schools Director

2. WASH in Schools Challenge
• Education Problem
– 67 million children not in school (53% girls)
– WASH related reasons for absenteeism
• Lack of facilities
• Poor hygiene education and practices
• Menstrual hygiene management
• MDG integration: Education & WASH
– Decrease in female absenteeism by 58%
– 66% reduction in diarrheal disease risk
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3. WASH in Schools M&E
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4. Study on WASH in Schools M&E
• 1,000 Schools Initiative
– 2008 advocacy and implementation initiative led by
Water Advocates
– 43 organizations involved including donors and
implementers
• Post-implementation follow up
– Quantitative and qualitative follow up surveys
conducted in 2012
– 49% response rate
– Full report to be released in 2013
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5. Findings and Recommendations
• Barriers to Integrated M&E
– Government capacity & political will
– NGO awareness of national government
monitoring systems
– Willingness of NGOs to work within a
struggling government system
– Monitoring in silos
– Ministry of Education focus on educational
outcomes
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6. Table 3: Number of Organizations Reporting Key M&E Factors
Orgs Reporting Key M&E Factors
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18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
M&E Policy Exists and is at least Data Always or Sometimes Knows if Government Data interacts with National
partially implemented Influences Current or Future Monitoring Exists in Program Government
Programs Country or Countries
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7. Table 3: Number of Organizations Reporting Key M&E Factors
Challenges vs What’s Addressed
Source: Deroo, 2013 (in review)
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8. Recommendations
• Interim Solutions
– Educating stakeholders
– Building staff capacity
– Identifying champions
• Long-term solutions
– Build M&E into strategic planning
– Improve coordination among NGOs
• Examples from Mali and Ethiopia
– Strengthen government capacity
– Assess cost
– Knowledge sharing
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10. Country Examples
• Kenya
– National Education Strategic Plan (includes WASH in
Schools indicators) and National School Health Policy
– CARE and the SWASH+ program
– Creating balance
• Government capacity building and monitoring for donor reporting
• Zambia
– USAID funded SPLASH program
– Inspiring monitoring at the district level
– Innovation: the tool vs the implementation of the tool
– Integrating mobile technologies into district level data
collection (local government capacity building)
– The bottom up approach
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11. Country Examples
• Uganda
– Government-led data collection and coordinated
monitoring among CSOs
• M&E as a tool for advocacy
• Influence on national budgets
– Why are NGOs are still independently monitoring
projects?
• Philippines
– Fit for School and the Essential Health Care Package
• The role of the Ministry of Education
• Institutionalizing behavior change and M&E
– Local to national integrated monitoring
• PTA, local government, and school collective monitoring
• System in place to address problems in real time
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12. Thank you
Elynn Walter, ewalter@WASHadvocates.org
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