Sustainability monitoring framework

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



• Sustainability Monitoring

Framework and Index




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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







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• 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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• 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


Measuring how?


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Outline session





• 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







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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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Sustainability monitoring framework