Strengthening the enabling environment:

Fund-wide data & trends

MERPBruce Bailey | Paul Crawford | Paul Tyndale-Biscoe

• CSOs have responded to recommendations to focus on

strengthening the enabling environment

• Focus has been on government Change Agents (especially sub-

national)

• WASH strategy should be appropriately aligned with context

• ‘Strengthening’ has mostly involved training, but could explore more

sophisticated methods to address resourcing and system

constraints

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Key messages

• CSO lobbying, DFAT-commissioned research

• CS WASH Fund (Phase 1)

• 2009 – 2011

• 11 CSOs, 21 countries, 45 projects

• 2012…

• Completion evaluation (MRP)

• CS WASH Fund (Phase 2)

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Once upon a time…Theory of change –

Version 1

DELIVERABLES:

E.g. infrastructure design and implementation, hygiene promotion

CORE OUTCOMES:

Outcome 1: increased access to sanitation

Outcome 2:increased access to water

Outcome 3:improved hygiene behaviour

CSO

Delivery Team

Poor communities

& households

Theory of change –

Version 1

DELIVERABLES:

E.g. infrastructure design and implementation, hygiene promotion

CORE OUTCOMES:

Outcome 1: increased access to sanitation

Outcome 2:increased access to water

Outcome 3:improved hygiene behaviour

CSO

Delivery Team

Poor communities

& households

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DELIVERABLES:

E.g. training, mentoring, advocacy, technical advice, campaigns etc.

ENABLING OUTCOMES:

Outcome 4: improved WASH governance

Outcome 5:strengthened local capacity

Outcome 6: improved gender equality

Outcome 7: improved WASH evidence base

CORE OUTCOMES:

Outcome 1: increased access to sanitation

Outcome 2:increased access to water

Outcome 3:improved hygiene behaviour

CSO

Delivery Team

Institutional &

community partners

Poor communities

& households

Theory of change –

Version 2

5

CS WASH Fund (Ver. 2.0)

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Is it the right way?

R² = 0.3999

0.20

0.30

0.40

0.50

0.60

0.70

0.80

0.90

4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00

Strategy - Context vs Sustainability

SM(c)-dif Linear (SM(c)-dif)

7

8

Appropriate

technologies

Effective

markets

Sustainable

financing

Monitoring

Regulation

Learning

Innovation Coordination

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Who is the ‘Enabling Environment’?

Government

Community

Private sector

84%

8%

8%

Change Agent Type

Government Private sector Local CSO

10

Water Sanitation Hygiene GeSI ECD K&L

Change Agent Sustainability by Component

Which WASH strategy?

11

0.00

1.00

2.00

3.00

4.00

5.00

6.00

7.00

8.00

9.00

10.00

ECD GeSI Hygiene Sanitation Water

Sustainability of CA Performance by Type

Community Government Local CSO Private Sector

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Where is the ‘Enabling Environment’?

National

Sub-national

Local

5%

49%

46%

Change Agent Level

National Sub-national Community

13

Male

Government

Province or

district

Sanitation

14

CommunityPrivate

sectorGovernment

National

Sub-

national

Local

15

Government

Private SectorCommunity

Engagement with Enabling Environment

16

What does ‘strengthening’ involve?

People

Skills

MotivationSystems

Resources

17

40%: training (gov. &

community)

18

0.30

0.40

0.50

0.60

0.70

0.80

0.90

People Skills Systems Resources Movitation Total

average

average

19

0.30

0.40

0.50

0.60

0.70

0.80

0.90

1.00

People Skills Systems Resources Movitation Total

Government Private Sector Community

Gov &

community

$$

Business &

community

systems

20

Reflections on the way forward…

Change

Agents

outside

government?

…especially

private

sector?

National

level? Female

Change

Agents?

More

sophisticated

than training?

…especially

resourcing

and systems

Tactical

choices about

WASH sub-

sectors?

21

Private sector, community,

government?

Local, sub-national,

national?

Sanitation, hygiene,

water, GESI, ECD, K&L?

People, skills, motivation,

systems, resources?

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Strengthening the enabling environment:

Fund-wide data & trends

MERPBruce Bailey | Paul Crawford | Paul Tyndale-Biscoe