making the grade: a progress report on wash in schools. monitoring and evaluation
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Making the Grade
Elynn Walter
WASH in Schools Director
A Progress Report on WASH in Schools
Monitoring and Evaluation
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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WASH in Schools M&E
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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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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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Orgs Reporting Key M&E Factors
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Table 3: Number of Organizations Reporting Key M&E Factors
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2
4
6
8
10
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14
16
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20
M&E Policy Exists and is at least partially implemented
Data Always or Sometimes Influences Current or Future
Programs
Knows if Government Monitoring Exists in Program
Country or Countries
Data interacts with National Government
Source: Deroo, 2013 (in review)
Challenges vs What’s Addressed
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Table 3: Number of Organizations Reporting Key M&E Factors
Source: Deroo, 2013 (in review)
Recommendations
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• 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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Country Examples
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• 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
Country Examples
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• 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
