Sustainability Planning and Monitoring

This document is an update, supplemented with learning gained from MPAapplications worldwide during 1999-2002, of the original MPA Metguide publishedin March 2000.The Metguide (Methodology for Participatory Assessment with Communities,Institutions and Policy Makers) was developed by WSP and IRC in 1998 primarilyfor the purpose of conducting a global study in 15 countries, which investigatedthe links between the sustainability of community-marged water supply servicesand gender- and poverty-sensitivity of demand-responsive approaches used toestablish the services.Since the completion of the global study in 1999, MPA has developed further as atool for mainstreaming gender and social equity in large scale projects. Itsapplications have expanded from evaluation and monitoring to designing andplanning new project interventions, and from dedicated water supply andsanitation projects into the realm of multi-sector project designs.This document presents the MPA as it is currently being used in Asia, Africa andLatin America. It consolidates the lessons learned in the process of its continuingdevelopment.Section 1 of this book represents an extensively re-written and supplemented versionof the original Metguide, by the editors Nilanjana Mukherjee and Christine vanWijk. Section 2 contains case studies contributed by Bruce Gross, Suzanne Reiff,Soutsakhone Chanthaphone, Santanu Lahiri, Christine van Wijk, NilanjanaMukherjee, Nina Shatifan and Richard Hopkins. Photographs on the cover andinside were contributed by MPA practitioners in different parts of the world.