Examining the Role of WASH Services Within Peace- and Statebuilding Processes
Publisher: Tearfund
Author(s): Leni WIld and Nathaniel Mason
Date: 2012
Topics: Cooperation, Monitoring and Evaluation, Programming, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Countries: Congo (DRC), South Sudan
This synthesis report presents the findings of a one-year research project funded by the Department for International Development (DFID) and implemented by Tearfund and ODI, which explored the links between Tearfund’s service delivery of water supply, sanitation and hygiene programmes and wider processes of state-building and peacebuilding in two fragile and conflict-affected states. Working to support these processes was not an explicit objective of Tearfund’s WASH programmes. However, as they were implemented, Tearfund project staff and partners began to gather ad hoc evidence of state-building or peace-building impact (Murray and Keiru, 2011). This research provided an opportunity to analyse these impacts more systematically in two countries (the Republic of South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC), and to identify entry points to support these processes more effectively in the future.