[{"bbox": [83, 87, 1147, 141], "category": "Text", "text": "Municipal WASH Funds (MWF) will be established (a separate ledger of the municipality account). The Municipalities plan and budget all WASH interventions in their annual budget and manage the fund flows to WUSCs."}, {"bbox": [83, 152, 1147, 313], "category": "Text", "text": "A Project Support Unit (PSU), headed by the Team Leader of the Technical Assistance, will support all stakeholders involved in the project. WUSCs supported by the municipality will implement the infrastructure works. Users will contribute in cash and kind to the implementation cost as per the project's norms for contributions (to be defined during inception). All procurement funded from MWF will follow the GoN rules and regulations for local governments and WUSCs. Public audits at the community level are among the key instruments for transparency and accountability."}, {"bbox": [83, 324, 1147, 378], "category": "Text", "text": "As part of its prerogative of budget implementation and to safeguard the financial interests of the Union, the Commission may participate in the above governance structures set up for governing the implementation of the action."}, {"bbox": [73, 418, 616, 451], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 5. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT"}, {"bbox": [87, 481, 417, 513], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.1. Monitoring and Reporting"}, {"bbox": [83, 524, 1147, 712], "category": "Text", "text": "The day-to-day technical and financial monitoring of the implementation of this action will be a continuous process, and part of the implementing partner's responsibilities. To this aim, the implementing partner shall establish a permanent internal, technical and financial monitoring system for the action and elaborate regular progress reports (not less than annual) and final reports. Every report shall provide an accurate account of implementation of the action, difficulties encountered, changes introduced, as well as the degree of achievement of its results (Outputs and direct Outcomes) as measured by corresponding indicators, using as reference the logframe matrix (for project modality) and the partner's strategy, policy or reform action plan list (for budget support)."}, {"bbox": [83, 722, 1147, 804], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission may undertake additional project monitoring visits both through its own staff and through independent consultants recruited directly by the Commission for independent monitoring reviews (or recruited by the responsible agent contracted by the Commission for implementing such reviews)."}, {"bbox": [83, 815, 729, 842], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [83, 842, 1147, 1001], "category": "Text", "text": "Monitoring and reporting of the Project will be result-based and focused on achieving the planned outputs, outcomes and impacts¹⁷. The tentative indicators and targets are presented in the log frame. During the inception period, the PSU team will prepare the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) plan and describe in detail the indicators, and if necessary revise them, for consistent measurement of the results throughout the Project period. A baseline study will be conducted by the project, and updated at least once for end line and for those results where it would be necessary, several intermediate results. The study will entail surveys and"}, {"bbox": [83, 1012, 1147, 1094], "category": "Text", "text": "The progress of the SUSWA will be reported to the SB and donors, using the Nepali calendar and Fiscal Years, with an annual cycle from mid-July to mid-July. The semi-annual reporting time is in January. This reporting will provide stakeholders with up-to-date situation of the implementation in English, including among others:"}, {"bbox": [121, 1096, 858, 1123], "category": "List-item", "text": "* progress against the SUSWA's physical and financial plans; payment status;"}, {"bbox": [121, 1124, 720, 1151], "category": "List-item", "text": "* achievement of targeted outputs and outcomes (and impacts);"}, {"bbox": [121, 1152, 513, 1179], "category": "List-item", "text": "* foreseen changes to the time schedule;"}, {"bbox": [121, 1180, 783, 1207], "category": "List-item", "text": "* early warnings related to the realisation of risks and risk update; and"}, {"bbox": [121, 1208, 686, 1235], "category": "List-item", "text": "* visibility and communication plans, activities and results."}, {"bbox": [83, 1259, 1147, 1394], "category": "Text", "text": "DWSSM/FWSSMP will establish a monitoring and reporting system as per the requirements of the three levels of governments in Nepal in Nepali language, following Nepali fiscal year and calendar. SUSWA may contribute to N-WASH system established by the DWSSM. Monthly, trimester and annual reporting has been the practice in the Finland-Nepal water sector cooperation projects. This frequency of reporting is likely to continue, but monitoring and reporting guidelines, formats etc. will be further developed for various levels of governments as per their needs."}, {"bbox": [83, 1404, 1147, 1460], "category": "Text", "text": "PSU and MoWS will jointly analyse the two monitoring and reporting mechanisms and requirements to avoid any overlapping and duplication in monitoring."}, {"bbox": [83, 1470, 1147, 1578], "category": "Text", "text": "Municipalities will be improving their WASH data management from their own resources and SUSWA will facilitate that in the applicable way to capacitate in collection, management and distribution in a nationally agreed format, using the official WASH MIS system. Furthermore, MoPID/WSSD to update and provide water supply and sanitation coverage information on a regular basis to central NIMS to validate and update its data base."}, {"bbox": [73, 1620, 879, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "¹⁷ Impacts will be reported once prior to the mid-term evaluation and once at the end of SUSWA."}, {"bbox": [1041, 1661, 1158, 1685], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 17"}]