Dear Jordan,

Your post from 28 January somehow went un-noticed or at least un-answered. That's a pity and I don't want the people behind WASH Advocates to think that SuSanA members don't care about these sorts of topics.

However, to jump us into action could you please:

• Tell us a bit more about yourself and WASH Advocates as it pertains to your post (your website wasn't mentioned, it is: www.washadvocates.org/)?
• Tell us a bit more about the background to your question, i.e. why are you doing this collection process, for whom and where will it lead to?
• Which resources have you already found so far, where and how have you been searching so far, and what are the remaining gaps now?
• Post-implementation monitoring of what exactly? What kind of projects are we talking about here?

I am quite sure that with this additional information, a few forum users are likely be able to provide additional hints and information for you.

Regards,
Elisabeth

WASH Advocates is collecting resources used in the MERL process. MERL is monitoring, evaluation, resolution, and learning. Help us answer these questions:

- Who should be responsible for resolution and/or post-implementation monitoring of WASH programs?
- How can we learn from the data and integrate those lessons into current and future programming? How do we address problems?
- What resources, tools, frameworks, and approaches should be used to resolve issues?

Send us your ideas! We are looking for:
- Handbooks
- Case studies
- Evaluations
- Cost data
- Surveys
- Checklists
- Contract language (agreements between service providers and community water committees, sustainability clauses)

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The traditional process of monitoring and evaluation is insufficient. How do we resolve issues when they arise? How can we learn from the data and integrate lessons learned into current and future programming? An appropriate approach would also include Resolution of issues identified during monitoring and evaluation, and Learning to improve development practice, using a comprehensive framework for Monitoring, Evaluation, Resolution, and Learning (MERL). MERL in WASH programs during and post-implementation is essential for long-term sustainable service delivery, but it is rarely done.

WASH Advocates is collecting these resources in order to make them easily accessible to implementers who are trying to incorporate all elements of the MERL cycle in their programs and to share success stories of those whose approach currently includes these types of efforts. For more information on MERL, visit: www.washadvocates.org/learn/sustainability/merl/

WASH Advocates (www.WASHadvocates.org) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative dedicated to helping solve the global safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene challenge. Our mission is to increase awareness of the global WASH challenge and solutions, and to increase the amount and effectiveness of resources devoted to those solutions throughout the developing world.