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Watershed Mali - Akvo Dialogue and dissent for universal and sustainable WASH Akvo supports the country team with Programme Monitoring & Evaluation (PME) support and shares its expertise in data collection and open data management to help lobby and advocacy efforts. Furthermore Akvo takes the lead in developing a PME & Learning framework to monitor and evaluate the country program results. Akvo has over five years’ experience in strengthening the capacity of a wide variety of local or regional (non-)government organisations working on advocacy related to themes including water, sanitation, ICT, health, economic development, food security and education. The organisations all work on programmes designed to tackle chronic poverty and follow principles established by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs - so encouraging local accountability, co-financing and community financing and collaboration between local and regional partners.
Akvo strengthens partner’s capacities in using Really Simple online Reporting (RSR), Akvo FLOW data collection and monitoring, Akvo Open Aid and Akvopedia knowledge sharing platform. Akvo’s network consists of almost 2000 users that share the information of over 1900 projects with over 5500 project progress updates in an online database. The impact of their activities can be followed over time through narrative updates from partners in low and lower middle-income countries. Akvo will work within Watershed to:
- transfer relevant lobby & advocacy experience to the country teams
- bring the country teams relevant (governmental) contacts and potential financing entrances as well as potential CSO partners;
- contribute in the country teams to the capacity building strategy (at first, and then execution) for lobby and advocacy;
- provide tools for monitoring and reporting, and train users in using them.
- lead the construction of the overall Watershed PMEL framework
- assist the country team to translate the PMEL framework into a country specific ones; Many organisations do not have capacity for data management and therefor lack support of hard facts for there lobby & advocacy efforts. In many cases governmental decisions are not based on data-driven processes. Akvo promotes sustainable data collection and monitoring for environmental and equitable development purposes. In this specific program our mere objective is to apply our tools for data collection that contributes to sanitation services and water management that avoid pollution, promote equality and assure fair distribution and nature conservation. - Building capacities of local and national partners in data collection and monitoring for use in lobby and advocacy
- Strengthening local organisational capacities in reporting their project activities for development CSO's and governements
D2D - Outreach and Dissemination Mobilising Data for Sustainable Development The D2D Outreach and dissemination project is one of the 9 child-projects of the Akvo Data to Decision project.

Akvo's outreach and dissemination activities in the Data to Decision project focus on:
* Learning: workshops and learning between partners: work closely with its partner network to promote knowledge sharing
and learning.
* Supporting CSO's - evidence: further develop and implement its services in evidence-based lobbying and
advocacy.
* National WASH portals: building capacity around best practices and sharing examples and best practices from one region
with other regions.
* Open data standards: To build capacity with partners on open data, promote organisations to share their data openly and support reporting in line with IATI.
* Communication, outreach and media: To work closely with our partner network to promote knowledge sharing and learning. A1 To organise and take part in physical meetings, training sessions and workshops.
A2 To organise events and track days where our partners can share best practices and experiences. 
A3 To participate in key global WASH events, to support DGIS and the wider WASH agenda  
A4 To organise regional and thematic team weeks. 
B1 To further develop and implement its services in evidence-based lobbying and advocacy. 
C1 To support governments in creating online WASH portals
D1 To promote organisations to share their data openly
D2 To make it easier to facilitate governments in providing ‘in country’ set-ups. 
D3 To support the reporting in line with the established and international IATI standard. 
D4 To lead and contribute to initiatives to improve WASH data sharing frameworks.
E1 To work closely with our partner network to promote knowledge sharing and learning.
Wash Alliance International - Ethiopia (Akvo) Using Akvo tools and services to support a comprehensive five-year WASH program in Ethiopia In Ethiopia Akvo will play a supportive and facilitating role in designing and setting up an PMEL system that will ensure efficient and effective planning, monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Akvo tools will be used for data collection, data analysis and reporting. Akvo will contribute to the following during the inception phase:
- Theory of Change Workshop
- Country specific monitoring framework
- Data collection workshop
- Set up and maintenance of software systems
- Survey design 
- Water quality testing pilot with Akvo Caddisfly, testing for fluoride, e-coli, and phosphate
D2D - Sustaining and scaling - East Africa Hub Mobilising Data for Sustainable Development The D2D Sustaining and scaling - East Africa Hub project is one of the 9 child-projects of the Akvo Data to Decision project.

Akvo supports a vast network of partners across East and West Africa, South and South East Asia, South America and the Pacific. Building on our experience in the WASH sector, we have commenced work across a range of new sectors, including sustainable agriculture, disaster response and climate change adaptation. The rapid expansion into new countries and sectors has delivered valuable lessons for improving our approach further. However, it takes time and resources to establish new partnerships and leverage the opportunities we are presented with.

The D2D activities of Akvo's East Africa hub (office in Kenya) will focus on 
* National WASH monitoring and IWRM: improve and scale up national WASH monitoring, including building national WASH databases.
* Supporting fragile states: addressing the lack of reliable up-to-date information in the form of accessible national, regional, and local databases. A1 To improve exchanging best practices and lessons learned between national and regional monitoring efforts
A2 To cooperate with national governments to build national WASH databases similar to the database developed in Ethiopia.
A3 To develop (expand upon AfriAlliance) a blueprint for setting up national WASH monitoring systems
B1 To cooperate with national governments and other key stakeholders on how to collect, use and share data in fragile states, including in IDP refugee camps
D2D - Sustaining and scaling - West Africa Hub Mobilising Data for Sustainable Development "The D2D Sustaining and scaling - West Africa Hub project is one of the 9 child-projects of the Akvo Data to Decision project.

Akvo supports a vast network of partners across East and West Africa, South and South East Asia, South America and the Pacific. Building on our experience in the WASH sector, we have commenced work across a range of new sectors, including sustainable agriculture, disaster response and climate change adaptation. The rapid expansion into new countries and sectors has delivered valuable lessons for improving our approach further. However, it takes time and resources to establish new partnerships and leverage the opportunities we are presented with.

The D2D activities of Akvo's West Africa hub (offices in Mali and Burkina Faso) will focus on three topics:
* WASH national monitoring and SDGs: complement and strengthen national monitoring efforts with Akvo tools, including monitoring water quality using Akvo Caddisfly.
* Integrated water and resource management: build local capacity to monitor IWRM.
* Water and food security: improving availability and quality of data to improve water management, food security, and support growth and job creation in rural areas, contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals." A1 To conduct a number of pilots in 2017 introducing new Akvo tools such as Lumen and Caddisfly to complement and strengthen national monitoring efforts. 
A2 To conduct a number of end-user feedback pilots in which citizens are empowered to report the breakdown of WASH services through user-level feedback mechanisms. 
A3 To play a key role in exchanging insights and lessons learned between countries and to facilitate the adoption of standardized SDG indicators within the national data collection efforts.
B1 To work together with the regional and national level water management agencies in the Niger and Volta basin to collect data relating to IWRM
B2 To work together with the regional and national level water management agencies in the Niger and Volta basin to build their capacity for analyzing and visualizing this data with Akvo Lumen
B3 To gain insights from this data to map areas of great need and to map the impact of activities.
C1 To focus more on food security and irrigation programs with partners and national governments in the region. 
C2 To support CILSS, technical partners and government in improving availability and quality of data to improve water management, food security, and support growth and job creation in rural areas, contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals."
D2D - Partnerships Mobilising Data for Sustainable Development "The D2D Partnerships project is one of the 9 child-projects of the Akvo Data to Decision project. 

The activities within the D2D Partnerships project focus on maintaining and building new partnerships with national governments in the target countries and UN agencies, CSOs/NGOs and the private sectors that can support the delivery of sustainable WASH services in these countries. With the support of DGIS, Akvo will engage in regional partnerships to improve data sharing and monitoring processes for sustainable development. 

Akvo has commenced discussions with the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) monitoring taskforce, the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI), the Joint Monitoring Programme of UNICEF and WHO, the African Ministers Council on Water (AMCoW), the Urban Water Hub and a number of regional water hubs and initiatives. Akvo’s global presence and network also places it in a unique position to engage further with the private sector and establish new and innovative consortia. Akvo will continue to collaborate, share and contribute to regional and global fora relating to open data and innovation in international development, disseminating the knowledge and expertise gained in its activities." A1 To provide support to the implementing agencies of the Dutch WASH Strategy 2016-2030 to improve the transparancy of their work.
B1 To maintain and build new partnerships with national governments in developing countries and with UN agencies to support the delivery of sustainable WASH Services;
B2 To collaborate, share and contribute to global fora relating to open data and innovation
C1 To maintain and build new partnerships with regional organisations (River Basin Management Authorities), CSO and NGO's and the private sector to support the delivery of sustainable WASH services.
C2 To engage in regional partnerships to improve data sharing and monitoring process for sustainable development.
D2D - Sustaining and scaling - Americas hub Mobilising Data for Sustainable Development The D2D Sustaining and scaling - Americas hub project is one of the 9 child-projects of the Akvo Data to Decision project.

Akvo supports a vast network of partners across East and West Africa, South and South East Asia, South America and the Pacific. Building on our experience in the WASH sector, we have commenced work across a range of new sectors, including sustainable agriculture, disaster response and climate change adaptation. The rapid expansion into new countries and sectors has delivered valuable lessons for improving our approach further. However, it takes time and resources to establish new partnerships and leverage the opportunities we are presented with.

The D2D activities of Akvo's Americas hub (offices in the USA) will focus on expanding our services in these countries to ensure we are reaching global coverage. This includes:
* Working with partners to capture data that is aligned with global and regional standards. At the global level this will focus on the Sustainable Development Goals and at the regional level this will focus on SIASAR, the regional information system for rural
water and sanitation.
* Acting as a core partner within the Lazos de Aqua 2 project to implement the use of Akvo Flow, Akvo RSR and Akvo Lumen as well are providing M&E support including activities around moving from data to decision-making.
* Strengthening our network in the USA. A1 To work with partners to capture data that is aligned with global and regional standards (SDG and SIASAR)
A2 To act as a core partner within this Lazos de Agua 2 initiative to implement the use of Akvo Flow, Akvo RSR and Akvo Lumen as well are providing M&E support including activities around moving from data to decision-making. 
B1 To improve our name recognition among US partners 
B2 To renew and improve our network with US funding partners
B3 To better connect to innovative (IT) companies
Watershed International and The Netherlands - Akvo Dialogue and dissent for universal and sustainable WASH Akvo supports all country teams with PME support and shares its expertise in data collection and open data management to help lobby and advocacy efforts. Furthermore Akvo takes the lead in developing a PMEL framework. Akvo has over five years’ experience in strengthening the capacity of a wide variety of local or regional (non-)government organisations working on advocacy related to themes including water, sanitation, ICT, health, economic development, food security and education. The organisations all work on programmes designed to tackle chronic poverty and follow principles established by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs - so encouraging local accountability, co-financing and community financing and collaboration between local and regional partners.
Akvo strengthens partner’s capacities in using Really Simple online Reporting (RSR), Akvo FLOW data collection and monitoring, Akvo Open Aid and Akvopedia knowledge sharing platform. Akvo’s network consists of almost 2000 users that share the information of over 1900 projects with over 5500 project progress updates in an online database. The impact of their activities can be followed over time through narrative updates from partners in low and lower middle-income countries. Akvo works within Watershed to:
- transfer relevant lobby & advocacy experience to the country teams
- bring the country teams relevant (governmental) contacts and potential financing entrances as well as potential CSO partners;
- contribute in the country teams to the capacity building strategy (at first, and then execution) for lobby and advocacy;
- provide tools for monitoring and reporting, and train users in using them.
- lead the construction of the overall Watershed PMEL framework
- assist the country team to translate the PMEL framework into a country specific ones; Many organisations do not have capacity for data management and therefor lack support of hard facts for their lobby & advocacy efforts. In many cases governmental decisions are not based on data-driven processes. Akvo promotes sustainable data collection and monitoring for environmental and equitable development purposes. In this specific program our mere objective is to apply our tools for data collection that contributes to water management that avoids pollution, promotes equality and assures fair distribution and nature conservation. - Building capacities of local and national partners in data collection and monitoring for use in lobby and advocacy
- Strengthening local organisational capacities in reporting CSO's and governements
Watershed Uganda - Akvo Dialogue and dissent for universal and sustainable WASH Akvo supports the country team with Programme Monitoring & Evaluation (PME) support and shares its expertise in data collection and open data management to help lobby and advocacy efforts. Furthermore Akvo takes the lead in developing a PME & Learning framework to monitor and evaluate the country program results. Akvo has over five years’ experience in strengthening the capacity of a wide variety of local or regional (non-)government organisations working on advocacy related to themes including water, sanitation, ICT, health, economic development, food security and education. The organisations all work on programmes designed to tackle chronic poverty and follow principles established by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs - so encouraging local accountability, co-financing and community financing and collaboration between local and regional partners.
Akvo strengthens partner’s capacities in using Really Simple online Reporting (RSR), Akvo FLOW data collection and monitoring, Akvo Open Aid and Akvopedia knowledge sharing platform. Akvo’s network consists of almost 2000 users that share the information of over 1900 projects with over 5500 project progress updates in an online database. The impact of their activities can be followed over time through narrative updates from partners in low and lower middle-income countries. Akvo will work within Watershed to:
- transfer relevant lobby & advocacy experience to the country teams
- bring the country teams relevant (governmental) contacts and potential financing entrances as well as potential CSO partners;
- contribute in the country teams to the capacity building strategy (at first, and then execution) for lobby and advocacy;
- provide tools for monitoring and reporting, and train users in using them.
- lead the construction of the overall Watershed PMEL framework
- assist the country team to translate the PMEL framework into a country specific ones; Many organisations do not have capacity for data management and therefore lack support of hard facts for there lobby & advocacy efforts. In many cases governmental decisions are not based on data-driven processes. Akvo promotes sustainable data collection and monitoring for environmental and equitable development purposes. In this specific program our mere objective is to apply our tools for data collection that contributes to sanitation services and water management that avoid pollution, promote equality and assure fair distribution and nature conservation. - Building capacities of local and national partners in data collection and monitoring for use in lobby and advocacy
- Strengthening local organisational capacities in reporting their project activities for development CSO's and governments
Data to Decision Mobilising Data for Sustainable Development Since 2008, DGIS and Akvo have worked in partnership to create innovative solutions and improve knowledge management, transparency, monitoring and data sharing for sustainable development.

As the international community transitions to a new global development framework and an ambitious water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) agenda, Akvo and DGIS renewed their partnership and will continue to work together to support this transition process in the Data to Decision (D2D) project.

D2D responds to the new “WASH Strategy 2016-2030” of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and focuses on
the transition period (2016-2020) described in the strategy. The overall objectives of D2D are twofold:
• to support DGIS in its WASH activities; and
• to implement, boost and support other activities to reach the objectives laid down in the WASH Strategy.

D2D focuses on leveraging Akvo’s significant expertiseand partnerships to support DGIS in reaching its WASH policy objectives for sustainable development. This includes a specific focus on supporting knowledge management, monitoring and innovation throughout the current transition period spread under the following set of activity pillars:
• Partnerships;
• Enabling environment: services and tools;
• Sustaining and scaling operations in each of the 5 regional Akvo hubs
• Outreach and dissemination
• Project management

These objectives will be implemented across the DGIS target countries and via Akvo’s hubs in East Africa, West Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America. D2D started in April 2017 and will continue until December 2020. 

This RSR parent project describes the general development in the Data to Decision project and hosts the monitoring framework for the entire project. D2D contains nine child-projects in which the activities on partnerships, services, tools, Akvo’s five regional hubs and outreach and dissemination are outlined and reported in detail.
D2D - Sustaining and scaling - South East Asia and Pacific hub Mobilising Data for Sustainable Development The D2D Sustaining and scaling - South East Asia  project is one of the 9 child-projects of the Akvo Data to Decision project.

Akvo supports a vast network of partners across East and West Africa, South and South East Asia, South America and the Pacific. Building on our experience in the WASH sector, we have commenced work across a range of new sectors, including sustainable agriculture, disaster response and climate change adaptation. The rapid expansion into new countries and sectors has delivered valuable lessons for improving our approach further. However, it takes time and resources to establish new partnerships and leverage the opportunities we are presented with.

The D2D activities of Akvo's South East Asia and Pacific hub (offices in Indonesia and Australia) will focus on:
* Water and food security: strengthening and expanding partnerships to address the issues on water and food security, including promoting sustainable farming by collecting data to proof compliance with sustainability standards in rice and palm oil production. 
* Climate change and resilience: strengthening and expanding partnerships to address climate change and resilience issues, including ensuring up-to-date data to deal with natural disasters in Pacific island states. A1 To expand our partnership with MMC, SNV, Forest Carbon and Indonesian Government stakeholders that aims to preserve peat lands in Jambi, Sumatera 
A2 To expand our Vietnamese partnership with Mars, UTZ, Helvetas and the SRP secretariat to promote sustainable rice production in the South East Asian mainland. 
B1 To expand on the partnership in Indonesia with UNDP and UN-Pulse lab in Jakarta 
B2 To cooperate with the Indonesian government in supporting these large scale climate change programs with technology and data solutions
B3 To cooperate with Oxfam in their youth development programme
In the Pacific, to respond to bottlenecks in terms of data analyses and interpretation of vulnerabilities and to build partnerships around Green Climate Funds in projects in Fiji, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands