Name: Function:

Diana .J. Nkongo Policy Researcher

Organization:

Tanzania Policy Programme WaterAid

Experience with (P)PM&E

Educational:  Water quality monitoring A work:   Sector monitoring-reviewing ways in which water and sanitation data is collected and recorded In the near future-will be involved in monitoring the impact of privatization to the poor people (monitoring changing water price and its impact to the poor).

Programme Objective

To improve the well-being of poor people by improving their access to safe water and effective sanitation.

Programme Strategies Policy Support:

– National planning and analytical capacity for water supply and sanitation Strengthened – Information base on WATSAN policy, law and management available, widely distributed and understood – Improved quality of data available for local and national planning of WATSAN service delivery and performance assessment

Programme Strategies continues Participatory Action Research (PAR)

• CSO debate & negotiation on WATSAN service delivery intensified • New institutional agreements on WATSAN service delivery, management and development agreed • Pro-poor policy and legal reform in place and enacted.

Beneficiaries and other principle stakeholders

Beneficiaries:  Urban and rural poor Principle stakeholders : • Ministry of Water and Livestock Development • CBOs • NGO Policy Forum • Poverty Monitoring System

Principle stakeholders continues

• DfID • UWASAs • Water Committees • Districts • Communities • WaterAid International • WaterAid Tanzania Programmes • Research Institutes

Issue to be addressed

PPM&E issue to be addressed:  Sustainable Management of village water schemes Programme have tried to improve through:   video production discussion paper presented at District and Ministerial level, Water Week and Annual Water Expert Conference (AWEC)

Factors which hinders the process

    weak/limited of capacity donors approaches acceptance of criticism from below lack of confidence amongst representatives to raise problems at higher levels.

Learning objectives for the PPM&E course

• To equip myself with participatory monitoring tools, • Improve my working proficiency as a policy researcher, • To come up with ways to better engage communities for monitoring and evaluation and for projects planning and development.

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