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Set up the WASH response monitoring plan
The WASH Information Management Officer (IMO) should, in tandem and in consultation with the WASH Cluster Coordinator (WCC), set up WASH Operational Response Plan’s Monitoring Plan, which will be included in the HRP’s Humanitarian Response Plan’s annexes. The monitoring plan (sometime called monitoring framework) includes a series of indicators aiming at measuring progress of the response. Each indicator ideally includes baseline, targets, monitoring tools, collection and analysis plan. Indicators must be carefully chosen so they are coherent with other indicator systemsystems, such as the :
- OCHA’s Humanitarian Indicator Registry
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- Country core WASH indicators
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- Governmental WASH monitoring frameworks,
- UNICEF’s Humanitarian Performance Monitoring framework,
- Harmonized assessment protocols's indicator system
They must be chosen in such a way to minimize burden for both coordination staff and partners when informing them.
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Indicators are not necessarily all WASH Operational response plan monitoring indicator (commonly referred to as "WASH HRP indicators") are often focused on response progress: , ideally informed directly by the 5W activity-tracking system. Depending on context and priorities, they can also be related to WASH response quality (quality of WASH services, respect of the sector’s principles and commitments etc.), or or Emergency WASH sector capacity building.
Monitoring plan can also include impact level indicators that can be measured only through overall response evaluation surveys, or meta evaluation of partners project, or research project, usually over a period of minimum six months. But in that case it will be essential to ensure specific means and budget for their measurement.
The coordination platform may find relevant to set up other indicators additional to the WASH Operational Response Plan/HRP ones to follow up the WASH response. In that case, the SOF should contain a separate monitoring plan chapter, that would include the WASH Operational Response Plan indicators, but also specific WASH indicators internal to the WASH coordination platform.
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