sustainability monitoring framework
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By Maaike Kempes, Dutch WASH Alliance. Prepared for the Monitoring sustainable WASH service delivery symposium, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 9-11 April 2013.TRANSCRIPT
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Sustainability Monitoring Framework
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Outline session
• Dutch WASH Alliance
• Sustainability Principles
• Sustainability Monitoring Framework and Index
• Key findings so far
• Challenges and food for thought
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Alliance of Dutch NGO’s funded by Dutch government;
Working through organisations in Bangladesh, Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Nepal and Uganda.
Objectives of the alliance:
• Improved WASH services for marginalized and women
• Strengthening Civil Society
Dutch WASH Alliance
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Outline session
• Dutch WASH Alliance
• Sustainability Principles
• Sustainability Monitoring
Framework and Index
• Key findings so far
• Challenges and food for thought
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Functionality
≠Sustainability
DWA is looking into the future
Sustainability is the likelihood that current functionality will be maintained or improved in
the distant futureSource: bridgelinedigital.com
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Sustainability Principles of the Dutch WASH Alliance
• Financial
• Institutional
• Environmental
• Technical
• Social
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Outline session
• Dutch WASH Alliance
• Sustainability Principles
• Sustainability Monitoring Framework and Index
• Key findings so far
• Challenges and food for thought
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Sustainability Monitoring Framework
• Sustainable WASH
systems and services
• Sector, programme
and project level
• Likelihood of sustainability
of systems and services
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SMF: more then a set of criteria
DWA Sustainability framework
• Focus on outcomes
• Understanding of sustainability
• Programme and sector (monitoring) capacity
Measuring what?
Sustainability index
• Set of questions
• Visualized scores
• Measuring trend
Measuring how?
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SMF: more than a set of criteria
SCONSUMERS
T
E
I
F
OPERATING GOVERNING
Other..
Water
Sanitation
Hygiene
Measuring what?
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SMF: more than a set of criteria
• The questions
• Processing data
• The result: Sustainability Index
• Frequency of measuring
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• C = Not Available
• B = Negative answers
• A = Positive answers
Social
• Sustainability Index
• Reliability Score
SMF: more than a set of criteria
Measuring how?
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Outline session
• Dutch WASH Alliance
• Sustainability Principles
• Sustainability Monitoring Framework and Index
• Key findings so far
• Strengths, challenges and food for thought
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Key findings so far
• Participatory design process enhances ownership
• Covering the complexity of sustainability while producing user friendly results
• SMF is multi dimensional and comparative
• Adaptable without significantly affecting comparability of results
• Can combine primary and secondary data
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Outline session
• Dutch WASH Alliance
• Sustainability Principles
• Sustainability Monitoring Framework and Index
• Key findings so far
• Challenges and food for thought
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Challenges and food for thought
Affordability of technology is key
Don’t forget gender
Keep it simple and user friendly
But what do we mean with sustainability?
And what about access to local credit?
We need to monitor multi stakeholder collaboration
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Food for thought
• Ownership
• How to ensure proper application?
• SMF and other sustainability instruments: what is the best way forward?
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Thank you
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