The Effects of Monitoring and Evaluation on Sustainability of Water Projects in Liwale District in Lindi Region Tanzania.

Wegoro, Ruhumbika (2023) The Effects of Monitoring and Evaluation on Sustainability of Water Projects in Liwale District in Lindi Region Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study is about explaining the role of monitoring and evaluation in improving the sustainability in water projects. The study was conducted in Liwale District in Lindi region.The study had the following specific objectives, firstly to determine the current monitoring and evaluation practices applied in water projects, to determine challenges faced by water projects in implementing monitoring and evaluation practices and to find out the proposed best approaches to be used in improving monitoring and evaluation practices applied in water projects. A total of 100 respondents were drawn from different levels which included the officials in RUWASA, who are the project implementers, Village government members including water committees’ members and local communities who are the water users and the project beneficiaries. Both Quantitative data obtained through questionnaires and Qualitative data from Interviews. Findings of this study showed that, the most applied monitoring and evaluation practices in water projects is field visit and meeting. The findings showed that, there are some challenges in implementing monitoring and evaluation practices including low budgetary allocation in monitoring and evaluation activities, lack of technical monitoring and evaluation staffs, low central government support, poor project reports and information systems, poor community participation. Lastly, the findings proposed on the use of best approaches to improve monitoring and evaluation systems including capacity building and training programmes, to establish an independent monitoring and evaluation unit in RUWASA- Liwale and adopting participatory approach. Keywords: Monitoring, Evaluation, Sustainability and Water projects.

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