This report presents the comparisons between the baseline and endline findings from the evaluation of the Learning by Doing Initiative that the Amhara Regional Health Bureau (ARHB) implemented with participation of the Amhara Regional Education Bureau and dozens of district and local government and NGO partners. The World Bank administered Water and Sanitation Program in Africa and the USAID-funded Hygiene Improvement Project (HIP) jointly supported and implemented the program in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. Results presented here reflect comparisons of data collected in May 2008 and June 2010 for three different initiative components: institutional, household, and school program assessments. April 2011.

HIP Ethiopia Baseline and Endling Comparison_Final.pdf  (1.9 MB)

Reports on a cross-sectional survey conducted in selected rural localities of 22 woredas in Amhara Region. The survey was conducted from May through July 2008 to generate a baseline to measure the effectiveness of the Learning by Doing Initiative and report on indicators in the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan associated with the Amhara National Regional State Health Bureau's program for at scale hygiene and sanitation. Research was supported by the USAID Hygiene Improvement Project and its partner the Water and Sanitation Program.

HIP-WSP Ethiopia Baseline Report Dec. 2008.pdf  (3.2 MB)

This framework was developed for the Amhara Regional State Health Bureau, with support from the USAID Hygiene Improvement Program and its partner the Water and Sanitation Program, to monitor the implementation of an at-scale hygiene and sanitation intervention in the region of Amhara. The Learning by Doing Initiative takes various levels of stakeholders through a process to ignite change at the regional, woreda, and community levels, bringing Amhara closer to goals of universal hygiene and sanitation by 2012.

HIP-WSP Ethiopia M&E Framework Dec. 08.pdf  (458.8 kB)