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USAID's Impact: Ex-Post Evaluation Series
The positive impacts of USAID's water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) activities are often hard to dispute, especially during the immediate time period after projects comes to a close. But how sustainable are these outcomes several years later?
The USAID Water Team, through its Water Communications and Knowledge Management project (Water CKM), is conducting a series of six independent ex-post evaluations to better understand the long-term impact and sustainability of its WASH-related interventions. This evaluation series will help USAID understand whether and how its activity results have been sustained years after WASH projects close and inform future USAID investments in the sector.
Water CKM has completed the following evaluations to date:
Madagascar Rural Access to New Opportunities for Health and Prosperity (RANO-HP) – Published June 2017
The first evaluation in the series explores the sustainability of the sanitation and hygiene components of the RANO-HP activity, implemented in 26 communes from 2009–2013.
Indonesia Environmental Services Program (ESP) – Published August 2017
The second evaluation in the series examines the sustainability of water utility capacity building, microcredit, and financial outcomes associated with the ESP activity, which was implemented from 2004–2010.
Ethiopia Millennium Water Alliance (MWA-EP) – Published May 2018
The third evaluation in the series the examines the long-term sustainability of outcomes related to rural water point construction, rehabilitation, and management, as well as participatory sanitation and hygiene education and construction related to the the MWA-EP activity, implemented in 24 rural districts between 2004–2009.
Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion–Debt and Infrastructure (FIRE-D) – Published September 2018
This evaluation is the fourth in the series. It examines how urban water and sanitation services in India have changed since FIRE-D closed and to what extent policies, practices, and financing mechanisms introduced through FIRE-D have been sustained.
All activities included in the series must have been closed for a minimum of three years and could not be recipients of Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance or Food for Peace funding.
Preference is given to USAID missions that are at a point in their design cycle to incorporate learnings into upcoming WASH programs.
This evaluation series builds upon USAID and Rotary International's WASH Sustainability Index Tool, which is a framework to assess a WASH activity's likelihood to be sustainable according to the following factors: availability of finance for sanitation; local capacity for construction and maintenance of latrines; the influence of social norms; and governance.
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Webinar: A Look Back at the USAID/India FIRE-D Project
How sustainable are outcomes several years after water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects have closed? In this webinar, Leslie Greene Hodel...
capacity building, ex-post evaluation, finance, governance, institutional strengthening, service provision, utilities, webinar
India Fire-D Project Ex-Post Evaluation Brief
India's rapid urbanization has resulted in overburdened infrastructure as the demand for safe water and sanitation increases. This problem, which...
finance, governance, infrastructure, ex-post evaluation
Ex-post Evaluation – Ghana Water Access, Sanitation, and Hygiene for Urban Poor (WASH-UP)
Under the African Urban Poor Improved Water Supply and Sanitation (AUP-IWS) program, USAID/Ghana implemented the Water Access, Sanitation and Hygiene...
ex-post evaluation, urban sanitation, WASH, social inclusion, wastewater, infrastructure, behavior change, water supply
MWA-EP: The Importance of Learning Showcased by Water Alliance WASH Program
This brief from the Millenium Water Alliance (MWA) addresses USAID's "Ethiopia Millennium Water Alliance Activity Ex-Post Evaluation," published in...
ex-post evaluation
India Financial Institutions Reform and Expansion–Debt and Infrastructure (FIRE-D Ex-Post Evaluation)
Rapid urbanization in resource-constrained countries like India places massive pressures on infrastructure, and long-term solutions are needed to...
finance, governance, institutional strengthening, infrastructure, ex-post evaluation, monitoring and evaluation
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