How You've Helped to Make a Difference

By Anne Healy - Evaluation Coordinator, February 19, 2008 01:30 PM

During the past year, the IPA team protected an additional 50 springs – the cost of one of these was supported in full by the generous donations received through Global Giving. Thanks to these funds, an entire community of 300+ people now has cleaner water.

IPA has also reported some preliminary findings from its randomized impact evaluation of this project:

Spring protection greatly improves water quality at the source (reducing fecal contamination by 66%) and moderately improved household water quality (reducing contamination by 23%).
Spring protection improves child health: diarrhea among young children in households benefiting from springs protected by IPA fell by 4.6 percentage points, or one quarter on a baseline diarrhea prevalence of approximately 20 percent.
When a spring is protected, households increase their use of the improved water source to collect their drinking water.
Not only has this project benefited communities with improved water sources, but it has also contributed to strengthening the capacity of a local evaluation team of 70+ staff in carrying out rigorous evaluations of development projects. On a day-to-day basis, IPA trains its staff in the methodology of randomized evaluation and the related skills of designing and administering surveys, data collection, data management, and so on, thereby building a local monitoring and evaluation team from the ground by hiring and training locals.

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