Final Evaluation of the PHAM project - Millenium Hydraulics and Sanitation Program

The general objective of the program under evaluation was to contribute to the reduction of poverty and the improvement of the health of the populations in the program area through access to better basic social services for water and sanitation. The specific objective of the program was to sustainably improve access to basic social services for the provision of drinking water, sanitation and hygiene to populations in the program area. The program targets more than one million people, or about 350,000 for water infrastructure and about 650,000 for sanitation actions and infrastructure. Its expected results are the following: 1. Access to drinking water for populations in the program area is improved 2. The maintenance and management of drinking water supply infrastructure in the program area is ensured, through the professionalization of the rural water supply sub-sector. 3. Open defecation is eliminated in target villages 4. The populations of the program area have sustainable access to sanitation hygienic and use improved sanitation infrastructure. A team recruited by Expertise Advisors was tasked with the ex-post evaluation of the PHAM project, with the objective to assess its performance along the OECD-DAC criteria and extract key lessons learnt and recommendations on a future programme funded by the EU. The project was implemented through (i) an inception/desk research phase (consultation of main project documentation; elaboration of the evaluation matrix/evaluative questions; presentation of preliminary findings in an inception report) (ii) field phase (interviews and focus groups with all key stakeholders to validate and deepen findings) and (iii) synthesis phase (drafting and presenting the final report).