Civil Society WASH Fund (DFAT)
DFAT’s CS WASH Fund was an A$103 million global program (2013 – 2018) that supported 13 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to implement 29 WASH projects in 19 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific. It was designed to emphasise engagement with the WASH enabling environment and enhance the sustainability of the fund’s impacts, as well as having a strong focus on the cross-cutting themes of gender, disability & social inclusion (GeDSI), environment, climate change and disaster risk reduction (ECD) as well as knowledge and learning (K&L).
FH Designs provided the WASH Specialist to the three-person M&E panel (the ‘MERP’) established to provide oversight and guidance to the Fund’s recipient CSOs, manage the data emanating from the activities and provide feedback to DFAT. The Fund’s theory of change (ToC) developed by the MERP provided coherence to the process and allowed the fund to be used as a broad learning platform for the sector. A journal paper published after the Fund’s conclusion provides further details (see Resources page).