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TOPIC AREAS: Water and Sanitation
Our evaluations of interventions related to water and sanitation assess program impacts on health knowledge and behavior outcomes, in addition to improved access to information and inputs for improvements in household sanitation.
Examples of projects:
- Strengthening Performance Monitoring, Impact Assessment, and Program Implementation for Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing in Indonesia. Mathematica conducted a retrospective implementation study on the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing (TSSM) program, which was designed to strengthen the supply of and demand for sanitation and improve the enabling environment for sanitation interventions. Mathematica’s study sought to understand how the TSSM program was implemented in East Java, Indonesia, learn more about how program monitoring data were collected, and reconcile some apparent discrepancies between program monitoring data and impact evaluation data involving program progress. Read more.
- Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation for the Family Health Initiative in Bihar, India (Ananya Program). Mathematica is developing and executing the measurement, learning, and evaluation (MLE) of the Ananya program funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Bihar, India. The goals of the Ananya program are to reduce maternal, neonatal, and child mortality; malnutrition; fertility; and morbidity from infectious diseases. Mathematica and its partners’ MLE activities include an impact analysis, a process and scale-up evaluation, a cost effectiveness study, and randomized control trials of two innovative solutions. Read more.
- Technical Assistance for the Impact Evaluation of Social Development Programs in Mexico: Estrategia de Microregiones and Habitat. Mathematica provided technical assistance to an evaluation being sponsored by Mexico's Social Development Ministry: the Microregions Strategy or Estrategia de Microregiones (EM). For the evaluation of EM, a program that channels government resources to mostly rural areas with high marginalization indices, Mathematica provided the local evaluator with design and other technical assistance. Mathematica also designed and conducted an impact evaluation of Habitat, another program of the Social Development Ministry aimed at improving basic infrastructure in marginalized urban areas in Mexico. The evaluation used a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effects of Habitat on infrastructure indicators from the Census data such as access to electricity, potable water, and sewage systems.