Supporting Impact Evaluation Studies in Water Supply and Sanitation in India
This synthesis report details the process, outputs and intermediate outcomes Technical Assistance (TA) ‘supporting impact evaluation studies in water supply and sanitation in India (P144956)’ implemented by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Pro...
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Format: | Report |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2015
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/05/24447084/supporting-impact-evaluation-studies-water-supply-sanitation-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21897 |
Summary: | This synthesis report details the
process, outputs and intermediate outcomes Technical
Assistance (TA) ‘supporting impact evaluation studies in
water supply and sanitation in India (P144956)’ implemented
by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). The
TA supported the design and implementation of impact
evaluations in water and sanitation projects in India and
also facilitated data driven analytical work and capacity
building. Specific contributions of the TA are the
following: enabling monitoring and evaluation, enabling
policy, and enabling institutions. In the context of the
significant challenges India is facing in water and
sanitation access and the extreme complexity of the
institutional systems for the provision of water supply and
sanitation, the access to flexible yet practical analytical
assistance at the point of need is highly valued by
government counterparts. This TA on supporting water supply
and sanitation has identified the need for a larger regional
or global activity that can carry forward impact evaluations
in the sector and produce global knowledge that will serve
as a public good for the client countries. The TA also
underscored the importance of upstream analytical work and
replication of results in different contexts as well as the
need to develop customizable tools and instruments for
faster implementation of data collection efforts. Above all,
the TA emphasized the need to invest in expanding local
capacity in designing and implementing rigorous impact
evaluations so that more evidence could emerge in the coming
years for better policy formulation in the water and
sanitation sector. |
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