EU-UNICEF WASH Project
The EU-UNICEF water and sanitation project in Papua New Guinea was expected to benefit 160,000 people, including 40,000 children from 200 schools, 36 health centers and 800 neighboring communities by helping them achieve open defecation-free status and improving hygiene practices. The project is being implemented in four Papua New Guinea districts: Hagen Central in Western Highlands Province, Goroka in Eastern Highlands, Nawaeb in Morobe and Bougainville Central in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville.
The project intended to contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6 - Access to clean water and sanitation - will support the Papua New Guinea WaSH Policy 2015-2030 implementation, including contributing to the strengthening of the WaSH Institutional frameworks.
The project implementation began in late 2017. The first phase of the project involved district selection and preparation of costed five-year WASH plans for project districts. The second phase of the project, the implementation phase, started in April/May 2019 in three districts (Central Bougainville, Goroka and Nawaeb) and in September 2019 in Hagen Central. The project is being implemented through international Civil Society Organisations (CSOs). On specific tasks, such as Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS), expert agencies are hired by UNICEF to build capacity of the implementing partners and with a view to ensure uniformity in the implementation approach. The design of WASH service delivery arrangements (SDA) is led by a specialist consultant, who is guiding the District Development Authorities in institutionalising the mechanisms. The project is scheduled for completion by June 2022.
In line with the project design, this evaluation is expected to occur at the end of the project, to both strengthen accountability of UNICEF to its donor and key stakeholders including beneficiaries, and as a learning experience to identify good practice and generate knowledge to inform the continued implementation. UNICEF PNG Country Office is therefore looking to engaging a consultant team to undertake the end-term evaluation of the project.
Purpose of Assignment:
By providing sound and credible evidence on what works, what does not work, how and why, this combined formative and summative evaluation aims to trigger UNICEF PNG Country Office and National Partners’ learning, enhance accountability with respect to UNICEF’s work with national and subnational institutions, provincial authorities, development partners, NGOs, civil society organizations, and other duty bearers on improving WASH for children
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(rights holders) and their families and to inform decision-making on national policies and budgets for WASH and for programme design for scale-up.
The primary audience of the evaluation are the WASH Section within UNICEF PNG and the EU donor. The secondary audience of the evaluation are relevant Government institutions and authorities in charge of WASH, future contracted project implementers and experts, and other UNICEF Offices.