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Query: Improving concurrent monitoring process in water-sanitation - Experiences, Advice. Reply by 27 January 2012

Communities:

Water Community

Dear members,

Monitoring of water, sanitation and hygiene service provision is a challenge the world over. Given the size and complexity of India, the need for robust monitoring that is linked to the field is even more pressing but also more challenging. Much work has been done on this, especially the excellent IMIS systems developed to show monthly progress and targets.

In the context of the Total Sanitation Campaign and the National Rural Drinking Water Mission, monitoring is seen as a means to improve service delivery. Effective concurrent monitoring can help track progress of water and sanitation, and the level of usage of facilities created.

Monitoring challenges that remain include how to reflect if an asset (water/sanitation) has become unusable, how to reflect APL coverage for TSC, efficiency and effectiveness of O&M for water, how to ensure monitoring and reporting tools are more easily employed as management tools, etc. etc.

I request Community members’ suggestions to help improve the current water and sanitation monitoring processes, in particular:

How can a particular asset’s usage be tracked after it has been completed?
How can Panchayats be assisted to electronically catalogue WASH assets within that particular GP?
Do you have experience of concurrent monitoring systems – what has been the learning from such approaches in the past?

Your inputs will help in providing insights into strengthening such systems.

To respond to this query, please write to se-wes@solutionexchange-un.net.in with the following subject: [se-watr] QUERY: Improving concurrent monitoring process in water-sanitation. Experiences, Advice. Reply by 27 January, 2012.

Thank you,

Aidan Cronin,
UNICEF,
New Delhi

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