Millennium Water Alliance Program: Support for Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning

The Millennium Water Alliance is a consortium of leading charities working to bring safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene water to millions of people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The program focuses a systems-wide approach looking at aspects of the system such as regulation and guidelines, functionality of service authorities, long-term strategic planning, and adaptation and learning.

Emory University partnered with members of WASH implementing organizations in Kenya and Ethiopia through the Millennium Water Program to provide strategic support for monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL). Through this collaboration we designed frameworks for unified, robust, and data-responsive MEL systems that engage partners in active learning and reflection, particularly with regard to issues of sustainability, equity, and the effectiveness of programmatic approaches. This collaboration not only resulted in informative evaluation results for partner organizations, but results of applied research projects done in collaboration with Millennium Water Program partners have been shared with the greater WASH sector to inform better practices.

Publications:

1. The Role of Women in Water Management and Conflict Resolution in Marsabit, Kenya (2014)

2. Governance and functionality of community water schemes in rural Ethiopia (2015)

3. Community Water Improvement, Household Water Insecurity, and Women’s Psychological Distress: An Intervention and Control Study in Ethiopia (2016)

4. Assessing the influence of social capital on water point sustainability in rural Ethiopia (2017)

Study Location

Ethiopia and Kenya

Target Population

Rural households

Principal Investigators

Matthew Freeman

IMPLEMENTING partners

Millennium Water Alliance, CARE, Catholic Relief Services, World Vision

Funders

Millennium Water Alliance

Project Staff

Kelly Alexander, Sarah Yerian, Leslie Greene