In September 2022, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Partnerships and Learning for Sustainability (WASHPaLS) #2 Activity, the Sanitation Learning Hub (SLH) at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and WaterAid convened a three-day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, to identify processes, tools, principles, and minimum systems that enable local governments to effectively undertake monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and support adaptive management to achieve and sustain area-wide sanitation (AWS) results. The workshop brought together national and local government representatives and UNICEF and WaterAid staff from Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, and Tanzania, with experience or interest in applying area-wide sanitation and hygiene monitoring processes and tools.
The workshop sought to identify a set of principles that could shape the minimum conditions for local government-led monitoring for area-wide SMS services and hygiene. In a final validation session, participants agreed to rephrase these into a set of recommendations for national and local authorities, and on monitoring to inform GESI outcomes.
