Consultancies
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De tweede activiteitenlijn van Connect International bestaat uit consultancy opdrachten op het gebied van water, sanitatie en hygiëne (WASH) in ontwikkelingslanden. Connect International heeft sinds 2010 al veel consultancies gedaan op WASH gebied (ten aanzien van verschillende WASH deelonderwerpen, zoals: programma identificatie, ontwikkeling en evaluatie; technische aspecten en kwaliteitsbewaking; visie, policy, institutionele en sector ontwikkeling; IT; finance en financial impact), alsook op het gebied van cash transfers. Een overzicht van opdrachten die we hebben uitgevoerd staat verderop op deze webpagina.
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Connect International heeft in 2025 een survey ontwikkeld en de uitvoering ervan begeleid en gecontroleerd, onder 1100 huishoudens in het Naivasha gebied in Kenia. De huishoudens verkrijgen water voor verschillende doeleinden (drinken, koken, schoonmaken, wassen, irrigeren, dieren water geven, etc.) op heel verschillende wijzen. Bij deze waterput in het gebied staan lange rijen containers te wachten om gevuld te worden. Klik op de afbeelding om de korte video te zien.
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Onze ambitie binnen de consultancy lijn is:
Vormen van een groep Nederlandse en lokale consultants, deels bij onze projectpartnerorganisaties en deels individuele lokale consultants, die voldoen aan onze kwaliteitseisen en die expertise hebben op vakgebieden die wij bestrijken. 'Local expertise where possible, expatriate expertise where needed.' Hierdoor kunnen we met 'blending expertise' en 'local understanding', tegen een aantrekkelijke prijssetting op hoog kwalitatief niveau met een divers expertise pakket inschrijven op WASH gerelateerde consultancy opdrachten in ontwikkeling, rehabilitatie en noodhulp settings en in zowel rurale als urbane context.
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In de afgelopen jaren hebben we de volgende consultancies uitgevoerd:
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Current (Febr. 2025 - Dec. 2026)
Support to change processes in the organisation AIDFI and small utilities in the Philippines:
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AIDFI’s ram pump projects and ways to improve, upscale and globalize this business, and
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support and guide change in and improvement of small utilities in the Philippines, including reduction of their non-revenue water (NRW) and introduction of a new management system through mWater with improved workstreams, learning options and other aspects.
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Sept. - Nov. 2025
Developed, guided and controlled the proper implementation, analysis and reporting of a WASH household survey in 1,100 households in the Naivasha area, Kenya, for Haskoning
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Sept. 24 - April 2025
Final evaluation of a project that implemented and improved WASH in 60 schools in Abkhazia for UNICEF.
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Jan. - June 2024
Development of a national WinS (WASH in schools) Policy, Strategy and Implementation Plan for the Government of the Solomon Islands
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Oct. - Dec. 2023
Development of mWater (survey IT for the WASH sector in developing countries) guidelines ‘for dummies’ for certain aspects of the mWater software.
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Oct. - Dec. 2023
Development of a draft Inception report for an initiative in the Solomon Islands to develop a national WASH in Schools (WinS) policy and implementation plan.
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June - Oct. 2023
Assessment of the WASH situation in households in 5 cities in the Philippines, including people’s motivation and capabilities to pay more for improved water services. For the data collection, a team of 10 Philippine enumerators and three supervisors was trained and guided.
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June 2023
Assistance to the Water Sector Regulatory Council (WSRC) of the West Bank and Gaza to develop a format for progress and final reporting in regard to the program ‘Support to Monitoring and Licensing Water Service Providers in the Palestinian Territories for 2022-2026’ funded by the Government of the Netherlands.
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Jan. - May 2023
Assessing the gaps and needs in human resources development in the WASH sector in Liberia together with three Liberian consultants (55 days during approximately four months).
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Oct. 2022
Training of Palestinian experts from the water sector in Palestine in project development and DRR aspects (focus on problem tree and Theory of Change) and visit the Dutch water company Brabant Water with them.
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Jan. - June 2022
Review of the WASH interventions executed by the international NGO Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) from 2017 – 2021 in all countries where IRW is active. The review results were developed and presented to inform IRW’s program, policy, advocacy and planning towards achieving its strategic objectives in the WASH sector.
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Nov. - Dec. 2022
Digital training of 20 Palestinian water experts from different water utilities and the regulatory body for water of the Palestine authorities in regard to the Triple Helix (TH) model for developing structural collaboration between private, government and research / education sector organisations.
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Aug. – Nov. 2021
Netherlands / Switzerland
Action Contre la Faim (ACF)
Structural review of the Field Support Team (FST) of the Global WASH Cluster. The FST is a team of experts who support national WASH coordination platforms in countries where emergencies have broken out and where such support is required.
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Jan.- Nov. 2021
Worldwide
Philip Morris International (PMI)
Development water quality and water availability guidelines, for six of the countries where PMI is active and implementing its worldwide WASH program (Malawi, Pakistan, Mozambique, Brazil, Argentina, India).
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Sept 2020 – April 2021
Zambia
UNICEF Zambia / AquaQuest Consult
Baseline survey in Luapula Province, Zambia, as preparation for a UNICEF WASH program in 6 districts in this province.
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Ongoing (2020 – 2024)
Malawi, Mozambique
Philip Morris International (PMI)
Development of a baseline survey among PMI’s tobacco farmers in Malawi and Zimbabwe and guidance of the rural WASH program that will be developed on the basis of the baseline findings.
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Dec. 2019 – March 2021
Ghana
Edburgh Consultants
Review of the SNV and Fidelity bank team, implementing the P2P WASH Impact Fund for WASH MSMEs and households (a program funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ghana), followed by the formulation of improvements of the team and the Fund. The assignment included visits to and in-depth interviews with urban and rural loan takers and implementing stakeholders, assessment of banking procedures, analysis of Fund finances and customers, analysis of the Ghana water sector financing infrastructure, and finally the formulation of an improved future impact investment fund, including development of the ToR for the implementation of this Fund. For the review, Connect International’s Organization Assessment (OA) approach was used.
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July -Oct. 2020
Worldwide
Edburgh Consultants
Evaluation of the AKVO D2D program for the introduction of IT and data management infrastructure in WASH sectors, institutions and programs worldwide, including advice on the future development and financing of AKVO and its business model.
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July 2019 – end 2020
Tanzania Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi
IMC worldwide
Regional coordinator for 5 countries of an evaluation of DFID funded rural WASH programs between 2011 – 2018 in 13 countries, focusing on sustainability and targeting, including water systems, CLTS and ODF status, in many thousands of communities in the concerned countries. Developer and manager of 2 online surveys in mWater for the investigations and surveys in approximately 20.000 households divided over 13 countries.
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August 2019 – July 2020
Uganda
BRLi
Development of a sanitation plan for self construction of toilets in rural communities (mainly), in Isingiro district, Uganda. In addition, a gender and an environmental assessment were executed in the district. All was part of a large water pipeline project passing through the district. For the assessments, surveys were designed by the TL in mWater online software and data uploaded by field surveyors in this software. A lobby among the Government of Uganda for the concerned approach was part of the activities.
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2018 / 2019 (6 months)
Uganda
DANIDA / WE Consult
Development of a National Operation and Maintenance Framework for Rural Water Infrastructure in Uganda for the Government of Uganda, including advocacy regarding the framework among Uganda Government key stakeholders.
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Dec. 2018 – April 2019
Indonesia
American Red Cross in Indonesia
Assessment of WASH interventions by the Indonesian Red Cross throughout Indonesia, including several small-scale PDAM managed pipelines schemes.
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2018 (3 months)
Ghana
UN-HABITAT
Evaluation of a flood resilience WASH program in North Ghana. Included relevance of the program, effectiveness and sustainability of WASH facilities realized, WASH product financing by community credit and saving groups (VSLAs), and (financial) business cases and value chains for local WASH producers and WASH O&M companies.
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2015 – 2018 (80 days/ year)
Burkina Faso, Kenya
Landell/Enclude/European Investment Bank (EIB)
Assessed, assisted and trained MFIs in Kenya and Burkina Faso regarding credit lines for low cost WASH products among households belonging to the Bottom of the Pyramid and rural public institutions. Also included market assessment of low cost WASH products through on and offline surveys, and development of (financial) business cases for small WASH companies and sales persons. The efforts resulted in sales of water filters and other WASH solutions to MFI customers.
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2017 (2 months)
Netherlands
UNHCR
Development of Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs) in UNHCR format for cash transfer programs for sanitation, water and hygiene items (including market research for the local commercial sector).
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2017 (1 month)
Netherlands
Connect International
Policy and advocacy paper for the Netherlands government on the potential of cash transfers to structurally curb poverty.
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2017 (1 month)
Kenya
Development of a proposal for the Dutch Government for piped water schemes by utilities and their business cases in Kenya.
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2017 (3 months)
Kenya, Bangladesh
Aqua for All
Assessment of 13 WASH projects in Kenya and Bangladesh (rural and urban) with a focus on functionality and sustainability potential, including financial models and business cases for the O&M and sales of WASH infrastructure and services.
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2017 (0,2 month)
Netherlands
Dorcas
Input in a proposal for the Dutch government for rehabilitation of pumped pipeline schemes in Kenya. The proposal was funded.
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2014 (1,5 month)
Kenya
Aqua for All
Evaluation of 9 WASH projects in Kenya. Evaluation methodology with over 100 indicators on output/results, efficiency, sustainability, relevance, risks, gender, PMER, and financial business cases for WASH O&M, WASH products and WASH services.
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2014 (0,7 month)
Malawi
Training local NGO’s in Malawi in business development for and financing of water filter sales + value chain development.
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