Monitoring and Evaluation

According to the Global Water Partnership, a strong monitoring and evaluation system has the potential to ensure that an IWRM strategy meets its main objective of fostering positive change, and also that the strategy can adapt to evolving needs and conditions. Resources available in this sub-theme include examples of performance indicators, technical methods of hydraulic monitoring, handbooks for appraisal of management systems, and other resources that support the wide variety of approaches for monitoring and evaluating water resources.

Monitoring and Evaluation Resources

Performance Indicators for Selected Water Supply and Sanitation Utilities in Ecuador

Publication date:
November 1, 1992
U.S. Agency for International Development
The purpose of this study was to develop performance indicators for 13 selected water, wastewater, and combined water and wastewater utilities in Ecuador from data supplied by the utilities themselves. The performance indicators cover operational, financial, and personnel activities. Of the 13...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Ecuador
Latin America and the Caribbean

Senegal River Basin Monitoring Activity, Hydrological Issues, Part II: A Report based on Discussions and Bibliographical Work in Senegal, Fieldwork around Matam and Subsequent Data Analysis

Publication date:
November 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
This brief study involved literature review, discussions, field work and analysis. Thirty-two recommendations are made. The most important is that Manantali's long term operation should be changed to include the release of water to augment the natural flood in the valley. A new real time...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Senegal
Sub-Saharan Africa

Senegal River Basin Monitoring Activity, Hydrological Issues: Part I

Publication date:
August 1, 1990
U.S. Agency for International Development
This review is organized into four sections. The review of the status of the hydrological documentation concentrates heavily on the data that is available for the existing and future studies. The two main sections of the report discuss, first the issues that can be accepted from literature, and...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Senegal
Sub-Saharan Africa

Final Report: Environmental Information Service's Consultation to Assist the Peruvian National Office for the Evaluation of Natural Resources (ONERN), Lima, Peru, July 21 to August 4, 1989

Publication date:
January 1, 1989
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report presents the results of a consultation conducted by the Environmental Information Service of The Conservation Foundation, to assist the Office of Evaluation of Natural Resources (ONERN) of the Peruvian Government with their surface water data needs; assess existing water quality...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Peru
Latin America and the Caribbean

Guidelines for Institutional Assessment Water and Wastewater Institutions

Publication date:
February 1, 1988
U.S. Agency for International Development
Arguing from the premise that the basic problems facing the water and wastewater (W&WW) sector are institutional in nature, this document provides a set of procedures for diagnosing deficiencies in W&WW institutions. The guidelines are based on team field investigation procedures which...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
United States
North America

The Use of Stationary Hydro acoustic Transducers to Study Diel and Tidal Influences on Fish Behavior

Publication date:
October 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
Diel and tiday conditions are two important factors that influence fish behavior. Many fisheries, such as the Corvina fishery in the Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica, take advantage of these influences. This study applied stationary transducer arrays that allowed complete coverage of the water column...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Costa Rica
Latin America and the Caribbean

Electromagnetic Inductance for Mapping Soil Salinity in the Serry Command Area: a Preliminary Investigation

Publication date:
October 1, 1987
U.S. Agency for International Development
This report is the result of activities of the Ministry of Irrigation's Regional Improvement Project (RIIP). Presented findings of an effort to assess the applications of electromagnetic inductance techniques for mapping soil salinity levels in the irrigated Nile River Valley and Delta regions...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Egypt, Arab Rep.
Middle East and North Africa

Recalibration of Small Cutthroat Flumes for Use in Pakistan: Special Technical Report

Publication date:
January 1, 1979
U.S. Agency for International Development
Colorado State University
THE MASTER PLANNING DIVISION OF THE WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (WAPDA), GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, HAS BEEN CONDUCTING WATERCOURS SURVEYS THROUGHOUT PAKISTAN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. A BASIC DATA COMPONENT OF THIS SAMPLE SURVEY IS THE USE OF CUTTHROAT FLUMES FOR MEASURING FLOWS AND WATER...Read more
Regional/Country focus:
Pakistan
South East Asia

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