This month HWISE is highlighting a recently published policy brief, Measuring Transformative WASH: A New Paradigm for Designing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Interventions’ through the Pulte Institute of Global Development at the University of Notre Dame. Project lead Justin Stoler explains, “I was honored to collaborate with Danice Brown Guzmán and Ellis Adams this year as a Policy and Practice Visiting Associate with the Pulte Institute for Global Development at the University of Notre Dame. This project highlighted the broad connections between water security, human health, and well-being beyond microbiological water quality. We look forward to new conversations about how we measure and communicate the impact of WASH interventions in international development and global health practice.”
Here is the abstract of the policy brief:
Many water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions have traditionally implemented monitoring and evaluation plans that use a narrow set of WASH indicators that reflect a 20th-century prioritization of microbiological water quality as the most important proxy for WASH intervention success. Even when water is microbiologically safe, there are often substantial structural, behavioral, and institutional barriers to access. Measures of WASH intervention success should incorporate these impacts to reinforce the value of WASH projects more completely. This policy brief summarizes factors that perpetuate the status quo in WASH program assessment and outlines a new paradigm for designing, monitoring, and evaluating WASH interventions.
https://curate.nd.edu/show/x059c53852s
