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field staff of CHW’s is enlarged in order to guarantee a sufficient assistance of the
communities and the committees.
At the level of the individual water points the planning is reasonably respected (with the
exception of the filter appendage). Once the decision is made to support a certain community
with a water point, a strict planning is respected and all target groups are satisfied with the
way the staff takes up his responsibilities.
5.4. MONITORING AND EVALUATION
5.4.1. Internal monitoring
There is a yearly planning session that is being followed up by bimonthly workplans. Each
time lessons are drawn from the previous period. The baseline survey should also permit to
measure changes in the behaviour of the target groups in relation to hygiene and sanitation.
Unfortunately there is not yet a systematic follow-up of the functioning of the different
committees. Neither has there been developed a strategy in relation to the follow-up and the
gradual and assisted autonomisation of the committees.
Also important is the strong will of the whole project staff (except for the technical advisor) to
learn and to draw lessons from their own experiences. The team is open-minded enough to
improve their own operation by looking at their proper mistakes.
The interaction with the central staff and with the other programmes of SOCADIDO is very
limited.
5.4.2. External follow-up and evaluation
Five external support and reflection moments have already been built in :
- the start-up seminar of August ’97 (assisted by PROTOS) to refine the approach and make
it more coherent ;
- a backstopping mission in May ’98 (executed by PROTOS) to update the approach ;
- a semi-permanent assistance by the Ugandan office of Water Aid who assists primarily the
software components (community mobilisation and hygiene and sanitation) through
quarterly monitoring visits ;
- an external evaluation by the German consultancy firm Particip in July ’98 by order of the
European Commission, which fitted in the framework of a more general evaluation of the
different sectoral interventions supported by the Commission in Uganda ;
- the underlying external evaluation.
Each of these initiatives has contributed to a strong evolution of the programme. Starting with
a young, inexperienced team, without a clear approach and obviously lacking experienced
skills on the software and the hardware levels, the programme has now evolved unto a sound
level which is technically sufficiently performing and experimenting in the field of the linkage
between water, hygiene, sanitation and health.
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