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Diana J. Nkongo, a Policy Researcher at WaterAid Tanzania, shares her experience in Policy, Programme Management, and Evaluation (P)PM&E, focusing on improving access to safe water and sanitation for the urban and rural poor. Her work involves monitoring changing water prices, strengthening national planning capacities, and engaging in Participatory Action Research. Through her role, Diana aims to address the sustainable management of village water schemes and enhance community engagement in monitoring and evaluation processes.
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Name: Diana .J. Nkongo Function: Policy Researcher Organization: WaterAid Tanzania Policy Programme
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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