Strengthening WASH monitoring system, planning and budgeting capacity trough e-survey platform

Proper sanitation is crucial in preventing the spread of infectious diseases, which are more severe to those living in poverty without access to adequate healthcare. Diseases such as diarrhea is the primary cause of child mortality in Indonesia. Typhoid is also a leading threat to the health of Indonesians. Both diarrhea and typhoid are amplified by inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and limited water supply. GWP-SEA has developed an e-platform to register water and/or sanitation facility at household level to provide a proper WASH database and monitoring system in the targeted villages. This database is expected to strengthen the village officials’ capacity on evidence-based planning, budgeting and monitoring evaluation for village WASH Program. This e-survey platform for water and sanitation hygiene were used to assist Safe Water Gardens program in increasing access to safe and proper sanitation at three village in Bintan Regency. In collaboration with Water Stewardship Indonesia (WSI) through the Safe Water Gardens (SWG) program, GWP-SEA conducted a series of training for the enumerators for the 3 villages in Bintan Regency between December 2022 - January 2023. The training attended by the village leaders, village government, and the enumerators (village volunteers) who learned about the importance of access to proper and safe sanitation, which situation considered as access to proper and safe sanitation, and how to carry out e-survey for a household. The result of the village survey then was presented to the village leaders, so they understand the present situation and use the data to determine the priority location for SWG’s pilot project. Apart from obtaining information for the purpose of this project, the village government can also utilize the survey result as a basis for decision-making for village planning and budgeting for WASH program, stunting, community welfare improvement, tourism, and others.