Webinar – From Data to Impact: How WASTE Uses Data to Drive Better Programme Decisions

About the Webinar

In this session, we are excited to welcome Sajib Mahanta, WASH and MEL Expert and Alejandro Martin Rojas, Programme Officer from WASTE, and Anas Hussain, Manager, MEAL and Communications at FINISH Mondial Bangladesh, representing a country team working with WASTE who will guide us through their information management approach for driving better programme decisions.

WASTE works across complex water, sanitation and waste management systems involving multiple actors, geographies, markets, implementing partners and institutions.

Measuring change in such a context is challenging. System change often involves multiple actors, interconnected interventions and changes in behaviour, markets, institutional practices and service delivery that unfold over time. No single indicator or dataset can capture the entire picture.

Drawing on experiences from two programmes; FINISH Mondial and FINILOOP, this webinar explores how WASTE moves from programme questions to data, insights, decisions, outcomes and learning.

The ActivityInfo team will also participate to explain how programme logic and results frameworks are translated into connected data models. The country team will share practical experiences of collecting reliable data, and addressing data-quality and operational challenges. And WASTE will connect these experiences to programme management, adaptive implementation, outcome measurement and transparent reporting.

In summary the webinar will cover:

• Why data for impact?
• From system change to what we measure
• Building the data backbone
• From the field: reliable data in practice
• From data to programme decisions
• From outputs to outcomes and impact
• Learning & transparency

There will also be a Q&A session.

Is this Webinar for me?

• Would you like to explore how programme objectives and results frameworks inform the selection of meaningful indicators and data points?
• Do you wish to explore how another organization uses ActivityInfo to structure, connect and analyse programme data across countries, locations, partners and reporting periods?
• Are you curious how you can equip country teams to collect reliable data and use it in programme implementation and what challenges you might encounter?

Then, join our webinar!

About the Presenters and ActivityInfo

Sajib Mahanta is a WASH and MEL Expert at WASTE in The Hague, the Netherlands.

Alejandro Martin Rojas is a Programme Officer at WASTE, specialising in plastic waste management and inclusive recycling systems.

Anas Hussain is the Manager, MEAL and Communications at FINISH Mondial Bangladesh, where he leads monitoring, evaluation and learning for a sanitation programme spanning seven municipalities in Bangladesh.

Eliza Avgeropoulou is a Senior M&E Implementation Specialist at ActivityInfo.

ActivityInfo is an information management platform perfect for monitoring and evaluation, humanitarian coordination and case management. For more than a decade, the ActivityInfo team has been supporting humanitarian operations and development programs worldwide catering for emerging needs for data collection and analysis. UN agencies, INGOS and NGOs use the platform to centralize and standardize data collection, display the impact of their activities while maintaining complete control on data access and changes. Originally developed for UNICEF’s emergency program in eastern DRC, ActivityInfo is a service provided by BeDataDriven a company based in The Hague, Netherlands.