Sustainability can often seem to be difficult to define, yet finding ways to measure sustainability is crucial to ensuring that projects continue to serve communities years later. Please feel free to discuss either/both of the the questions in your response.
a. What aspects of the WASH intervention do you measure or monitor and how does this help improve sustainability?
b. When your monitoring results show you that something is not working, how do you correct this?
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Welcome to the discussion on monitoring and measuring success! We look forward to reading your thoughts on this important issue.
I understand that in WASH sector sustainability is a relative term can be used and measured with reference to the local context and its response to emerging needs of users of a particular water and sanitation system. I am wondering how sustainability of water and sanitation systems can be defined and measured in relief and early recovery phases.
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Friends - Ned Breslin is slated to speak at PopTech Oct 21 (Thursday) afternoon session (11am-12:30pm) "How (Not) to Change the World". He’ll be highlighting our work on monitoring. All sessions will be streamed live at http://www.poptech.org/live
if it is identified that there is some thing not working, we need to identify the root cause for the same and responsible support system. And then need to focus on strengthening the support system
Deep thinking - adds a new dimension to it all.
The beneficiaries satsfaction, Reduced waterborne diseases and improvement in overall environment in the service area could be theindicators.