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WHAT IS TRIPLE-S ABOUT?

• “Sustainable Rural Water Services at Scale”

• Six-year (3+3) learning initiative

• Sustained service delivery

• Act as facilitator/catalyst to enable:• Learning sector • Shift from water supply to service delivery• Harmonization and alignment of Sector stakeholders

• Multi-country initiative: (Ghana, Uganda, Burkina Faso and International)

• Learning central to initiative

ROLE of LEARNING in TRIPLE-S

• Facilitates learning process in the Outcomes-Based Work Streams

• Internal and external (WASH sector) learning• Internally does program logic lead to the desired change?

(incl. Principals Framework, Outcome based management, Learning Alliances/networks)

• Externally: can an enabling environment be created in which people are willing and contributing to learning to obtain the desired change?

• 4 monthly and Annual planning and review cycles

• Capture the environment in which change takes place (replicable ?)

• Objectives are out of the zone of control but within zone of influence

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• Learning to improve performance

• 2 learning areas => narratives1. Change towards sustainability2. The enabling process towards change

• Different learning needs

• Central to planning and review cycle2: The Triple-S

Narrative

The Approach

1: The Reliable Water Narrative

The Triple-S Principles Framework

Who

is Learning

How

Cycle ofLearning

For generating impact

PERFORMANCE

For enabling impact

LEARNING STRATEGY

Experiencing

Gathering/Sharing

Sense Making

Learning

Improving

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LEARNING TO IMPROVE ...

ELF

DOMAINS OF CHANGE

Narrative 1: Sustainable Water Services Delivery

Narrative 2: The Triple-S approach

(external view point)

ARaP4m 8m 12M

LEARNING PROCESS

ARaP4m 8m 12M

ARaP4m 8m 12M

4 monthly learning retreat with the External Learning Facilitator

Summary Narrative• Annual press release &• Stockholm presentation

• Website• Newsletters• Other in country publication

4 monthly narrative

ARaP= Annual Report and Planning Meeting

The PRINCIPLES FRAMEWORK

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TRIPLE-S PRINCIPLES FRAMEWORK

Levels of intervention

Water service provision Intermediate National International

Service Delivery Approach

Learning and adaptive capacity

Harmonisation and Alignment

LEARNING NARRATIVE 1

Sense Making, Analysis , Summary

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Progress Change

Principles Framework

Outcomes Framework

Outcomes Plan

Programme Logic

Documentation & indicators

4 monthlyyearly

International

Country

WORK STREAMS

• Ghana Country• Uganda Country• Burkina Faso Country• International• Research and Learning• Programme Management• Acquisition and partnership• Communication

TRIPLE-S PRINCIPLES FRAMEWORK

Levels of intervention

Water service provision

Intermediate

National International

Service Delivery Approach

Learning and adaptive capacity

Harmonisation and Alignment

Uganda Ghana

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Mozambique

Other research / literature

SUMMARY / SYNTHESIS

NARRATIVES

BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER

Questions

• Where can SenseMaker fit to show changes in:• discourse / policy / practice / ideas;• Relevance / Responsiveness / legacy / leverage?

• Which information needs can be covered ?• Which cannot be covered and how to get it!• Data collection needed for SenseMaker?• Analysis needed?

Questions

• What are the practical consequences of SenseMaker in terms of:–Our actions in NL, Ghana, Uganda & Burkina Faso–Resources:

– Time– Skill/Capacity– Finances–Roles?

– Planning / way forward =>

ENDor rather the beginning!!