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Ensuring Sustainability

In this section you’ll find tools relating to activities undertaken after a consensus on the implemented solution has been reached. It deals with topics such as conceptualisation (writing concepts and proposals), financing and programme/project implementation.

Ensuring Sustainability

Activities to ensure long term sustainability of interventions are unfortunately often forgotten or are not budgeted or financed. So it is crucial to plan (and budget!) the following activities ahead to ensure that programmes and projects will be sustainable in the long term:

  • ongoing participatory monitoring and evaluation
  • operation and maintenance
  • ongoing follow-up and support.
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Ensure Sustainability

Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation

With growing emphasis on participatory approaches towards development, there has been recognition that monitoring and evaluation (M&E) should…
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Using Indicators to Measure Progress and Performance

Progress and performance must be measured to attest a development in a (long term) project. With few, but carefully selected indicators, it is…
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Process Documentation

Process documentation records and supports the process itself. Process documentation is not about writing a final report for externals, but about an…
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Follow-up of Projects

Despite the importance of internal follow-up of completed projects to ensure sustainability of water and sanitation initiatives, it is usually a…
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Operation and Maintenance

Generally, water and sanitation projects experience their most serious problems with operation and maintenance and with cost recovery aspects.…
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Integrity Management Toolbox for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

The Integrity Management Toolbox for Water Sector SME proposes a systematic bottom-up approach to tackling integrity issues of small and medium-sized…
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