Established
in 1990, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSC...
Established
in 1990, the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) is the
only United Nations body devoted solely to the sanitation and hygiene needs of
the most vulnerable and marginalized people. In 2008, WSSCC established the
Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) to boost finances into countries with high needs
for sanitation. GSF invests in collective behaviour change approaches that
enable large numbers of people in developing countries to improve their access
to sanitation and adopt good hygiene practices. The GSF is supporting
programmes in 12 countries and since 2008 has committed over $112 million to
transform lives in developing countries.
GSF supported programmes are implemented by
selected Executive Agencies (EAs) in country.
As part of the GSF M&E framework, WSSCC requests EAs to commission outcome
surveys to support independent verification of program results on the target
population through quantitative data collection. The surveys also provide
further insights into equity and sustainability considerations, as well as
providing an opportunity to collect data on areas that are challenging to
collect through routine programme monitoring systems.
The outcome survey adopts a quantitative research
design which includes household level interviews and inspections, school and
healthpost interviews and 3 hour structured observations of sanitation and
hygiene behaviors in the home.
The objectives of the GSF Outcome
Surveys are to:
- Provide data on key
sanitation and hygiene indicators to assess household, facility and community
outcomes of GSF supported programmes in the target communities;
- Identify whether
households in ODF declared communities have continued to use and properly
maintain improved toilets and hand washing facilities and continue to comply to
national ODF criteria;
- Understand if the
results achieved meet the needs of marginal and vulnerable populations;
- Identify factors obstructing sanitation and
hygiene behaviour change;
From 2016 to 2018 WSSCC worked in collaboration
with the University at Buffalo for the purpose of strengthening and
standardizing the Outcome Survey methodology across all GSF Programmes. The tools and methodology were piloted in
Malawi in 2017 and further tested in India in 2018. Several GSF supported programmes will
undertake and commission outcome surveys in 2018. Already surveys are being
conducted in Kenya and Tanzania. Nepal,
Cambodia and Nigeria are in the early stages of recruiting local research
firms. Further countries such as Ethiopia and Uganda may also start to plan for
a survey in 2018 or 2019. Based on the experience of conducting the surveys in
Malawi and India, it is critical that EAs are technically backstopped by
research specialists recruited by WSSCC in order to oversee and manage the
national research firms undertaking the surveys to ensure quality and adherence
to the new outcome survey methodology.
Objective of Consultancy
To provide technical oversight
and support to the outcome surveys in Cambodia,
Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria (and
possibly others) so that the outcome surveys adhere with the WSSCC outcome survey methodology
developed by University at Buffalo in consultation with WSSCC.