District operated and owned M

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District operated and owned ME systems

• The TREND perspective

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Where we are coming from

• TREND as a learning organisation
• TREND has collaboration with national and
  international partners in the area of knowledge
  management
• TREND has the objective to document and share
  best practices with all levels of stakeholders

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Experience with ME

• Collaboration with IRC in training of district
  and regional level stakeholders in Monitoring for
  Effectiveness in Volta region in 2000
• Currently involved in
• Discussions regarding structuring Monitoring
  Operation and Maintenance (MOM) system CWSA,
  Greater Accra
• Post Construction Support study
• Position paper on monitoring the MDGs -gt
  disseminated through workshop

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Effectiveness and efficiency
Results use of outputs
Monitoring for effectiveness
Immediate objective
Outputs
Monitoring for Efficiency
Target
Inputs
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ME clients and information transmission network
International level (donors, UN bodies, etc.)
Resource allocation Advocacy Policy formulation
National level (Agencies, donors, UN bodies,
etc.)
Action planning Resource allocation
Region
Action planning Resource allocation
District
Corrective measure
Community
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Post Construction Support study

• Relationship between post construction support
  and sustainability
• Monitoring as a form of post construction support
  
• Added value of MOM to sustainability?
• Comparing MOM situation (Volta) with non MOM
  situation (Brong Ahafo)

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Lessons learnt so far from PCS

• Sustainability depends on many factors
• these should be taken up in monitoring systems
• Data is extracted from the community to feed
  district and regional MIS.
• Communities do not recognise value of monitoring
  exercise

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MOM in Greater Accra

• Monitoring information is generated at community
  level, by the community gt Monitoring is owned by
  the community
• Monitoring information is continuously used to
  solve problems at community level
• Information flows periodically from the community
  to the district and regional levels

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Qualitative Information Systems

• Qualitative Information Systems (QIS) a system
  to quantify peoples perceptions
• for the effective and efficient planning of new
  services and for the monitoring of existing ones,
  
• at both community and district levels.

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QIS consists of

• Qualitative Information Appraisal comprising of
  a
• Quantified Participatory Assessment (QPA) at
  community level,
• multi stakeholder meetings to discuss QPA
  findings,
• identify corrective actions for an Action
  Planning Report
• Village information system to enable communities
  to
• store information,
• monitor progress
• plan corrective actions
• Adaptive management
• to trigger speedy and appropriate responses from
  management and communities to implementation
  problems.
• Computerised database at district / regional
  level to
• store information,
• facilitate repeated data collection and analysis,
  
• streamline data collection needs

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TRENDs perspective

• People who have a stake and vested interest in
  the issues, will be most motivated to monitor
• Actively involve users and beneficiaries of
  monitoring information in
• identifying indicators
• Collecting, analysing and storing monitoring
  information
• Monitoring information should be collected and
  acted upon at the lowest possible level
• Pilot ME system on small scale and scale it up
• Capacity building of stakeholders

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Challenges ahead

• Key issues identified during workshop on
  Improving the quality and utilisation of MDG
  monitoring data at national and sub-national
  level
• Framework for monitoring
• Coordination
• Capacity
• Civil Society Involvement
• Definitions and Indicators
• Collection Method/Data Sustainability beyond
  coverage
• Desegregation /Breakdown of Data

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Framework

• need for the establishment of a central
  institution to
• provide a forum for harmonization and validation
  of the data
• Act as one stop centre for collecting information
  on the sector.
• better stakeholder coordination
• civil society has an important role to play
  (providing feedback from monitoring information,
  capacity building, technical support, etc.)

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Data and data collection

• go beyond just monitoring coverage or
  implementation data.
• Include sustainability aspects such as
• functionality of systems
• water quality
• water use
• functioning of watsan committees
• data collection instruments designed in order to
  allow for disaggregation (by geological area and
  social economic status).

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