Developing a WASH Peacebuilding Results Framework – What to measure

Purpose

If the WASH intervention being developed aims to build and sustain peace, the conflict-sensitive approach to the M&E framework outlined in the previous section will be the first and foundational step in creating your overall peacebuilding results framework. The steps to develop a WASH for Peace theory are described in Section 3 of the Conflict Sensitivity and Peacebuilding Programming Guide. The next step in the results based programming cycle is to build a results framework to make it clear what contribution to peace the WASH intervention will deliver, how the programme intends to do so, and how the programme will measure the results. A detailed overview of the development of a results framework is not given here, as the steps will mirror those of any programme.

Instead this section focuses on illustrating WASH-relevant entry points. The conflict and peace analysis of the intervention context forms the basis for the theory of change, and this in turn informs the results framework - the process is shown below with WASH-relevant inputs: