The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has gone out to tender with a contract for monitoring and verification for UNICEF’s rural water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) worth an estimated £3 million.
UNICEF's WASH team works in over 100 countries worldwide to improve water and sanitation services, as well as basic hygiene practices.
All UNICEF WASH programmes were designed to contribute to the Millennium Development Goal for water and sanitation. The goal - to cut in half, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water - has been achieved globally, but the same target
DFID now has a new centrally managed rural WASH programme. The Department is looking to contract Monitoring and Verification (M&V) services to assess the monitoring systems used to report UNICEF Rural WASH programme results to DFID, and to validate the results being reported.
The M&V service is expected to begin in early April 2018, and will continue until
Implementation funds will be provided to UNICEF, with activities planned in ten countries:
- Bangladesh;
- Burma;
- Cambodia:
- Eritrea;
- Haiti;
- Madagascar;
- Nepal;
- Niger;
- Pakistan; and
- South Sudan.
The new WASH programme, which builds on UNICEF’s current Accelerating Sanitation and Water for All (ASWA) intiative, is scheduled to start in October 2017, with a 6 month inception phase, and will continue until December 2022.
Expected results include 3.75 million people gaining sustained access to basic sanitation, 500,000 people gaining sustained access to basic, safe water supplies, as well as improvements in WASH in 500 schools and 250 health care facilities. The programme will also strengthen country WASH sectors with a focus on improving national WASH monitoring systems.
UNICEF country programmes have allocated targets, and will also report against a set of VfM indicators annually. The contract will run for 46 months, with a further option to extend by up to up to 23 months.
Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate is 29th November 2017 – click here to access the tender documentation.
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