Sustainability Planning and Monitoring in Community Water Supply and Sanitation: A Guide on the Methodology for Participatory Assessment (MPA) for Community-Driven Development Programs

This document is an update, supplemented with learning gained from MPA applications worldwide during 1999-2002, of the original MPA Metguide publishes in March 2000. The Metguide (Methodology for Participatory Assessment with Communities, Institutions and Policy Makers) was developed by WSP and IRC in 1998 primarily for the purpose of conducting a global study in 15 countries, which investigated the links between the sustainability of community-marged water supply services and gender- and poverty- sensitivity of demand-responsive approaches used to establish the services.
 
Since the completion of the global study in 1999, MPA has developed further as a tool for mainstreaming gender and social equity in large scale projects. Its applications have expanded from evaluation and monitoring to designing and planning new project interventions, and from dedicated water supply and sanitation projects into the realm of multi-sector project designs.
 
This document presents the MPA as it is currently being used in Asia, Africa and Latin America. It consolidates the lessons learned in the process of its continuing development.
 
Section 1 of this book represents an extensively re-written and supplemented version of the original Metguide, consists of 6 chapters. Section 2 (MPA Application Case Studies) is a compilation of seven case studies of MPA applications for the purposes of: project planning, evaluation, monitoring and design, action research exploring links between policies, project rules and community level project outcomes, and an illustration of the MPA’s potential as a catalyser of social change within communities.

Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

SECTION 1: METHODOLOGY FOR PARTICIPATORY ASSESSMENT
1. The Challenge of Sustained Water Supply and Sanitation for All
2. A New Tool for Planners and Managers of Large Community-Driven Development (CDD) Programs
3. The MPA Framework and Process
4. The MPA in Action
5. Organizing and Interpreting the Data
6. Participatory Tools Used in the MPA

SECTION 2: MPA APPLICATION CASE STUDIES
Do Project Rules Promote Sustainability and Equity
From Theory to Practice
Adding Accountability for Gender and Social Inclusion
Looking back to See Forward
Effects of the MPA on Gender Relations in the Community
Achieving Sustained Sanitation for the Poor
How Well Did Those Development Projects in Flores Work

Appendix A. Institutions that currently have MPA-trained facilitators
Appendix B. Process designed for PLA policy assessment workshop (Indonesia, September 1999)

References
 

Post Date : 26 Juni 2009