Capacity building for the Benin WASH Alliance

The objective of this workshop is to achieve a more coherent and strengthened joint program of partners of the DWA Alliance (Dutch WASH Alliance) and WASH Benin.
The CWP-Benin WASH focal point took part in this training session whose methodology was focused primarily on the Theory of Change in the planning. Appreciative Inquiry was used to define the vision. Moreover, systemic analysis, adult education principles and the learning cycle of David Colb were part of tools associated.
During this workshop, participants practiced to put in pictorial form the context and the current stake of WASH sector in the area of ​​program intervention (systemic analysis of WASH sector in Benin), to classify  the results of the Logical Framework by category and to identify the actors in successive changes (pre-conditions) that should lead to appropriate situations (results) and made in the frame during group work.
In a highly participatory approach, the Alliance partners divided into three groups namely the group of drinking water, the IWRM and finally the group of hygiene and sanitation ranked intermediate results of the logical framework in their respective categories and identified the paths of change. From the final desired change were identified respectively the issue, actors, preconditions, assumptions and activities. This example has improved the understandings and to distinguish between assumptions and preconditions. After the group work, different  change paths were developed by the three groups. This also helped to identify elements of synergy between partners for the implementation of activities to achieve the desired final change.