Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan for Improved Water Management for Sustainable Economic Growth Program in Armenia

The program will achieve this through the development and dissemination of improved approaches and tools to support sustainable and secure water management, advancing improved water governance, and spreading best practices and innovative approaches in water conservation and use. The program's theory of change is based on the idea that strengthening the capacity of relevant stakeholders to utilize advanced technologies and data for informed decision-making will lead to increased equality of access to water in Armenia. The program's logic model guides its technical activities through five objectives: applying advanced technologies and tools to support sustainable and secure water management, improving water governance, promoting and scaling best practices and innovative approaches in water conservation and use, preparing for regional cooperation with neighboring countries, and improving access to water. The program's monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) plan presents Deloitte's approach and mechanisms for tracking the program's progress, learning from interventions, and adapting. The MEL plan integrates systematic data collection and analysis to provide timely information about the program's performance. The data collection and analysis will allow Deloitte to track the program's outputs and outcomes over the contract life. The program will assess progress in achieving its goals and validating its underlying theory of change by analyzing performance data. This data may include the number of targets met, amount of water saved, number of partners engaged, and observation of counterpart response during implementation. The program will look for evidence that will allow it to adapt program-induced performance impacts to more permanent behavioral changes. The program will monitor performance by tracking against yearly targets as specified in the MEL plan. It will use indicators to assess whether program objectives are being met. The program will also monitor the assumptions, risks, and other external factors relevant to its implementation and develop a risk management plan. The program team will update these assumptions and risks as needed and aim for early and ongoing results consistent with the proposed indicator targets timeline. The program's MEL systems are organized to monitor, evaluate, and learn from program results at each step. The outputs, results, and indicators utilize the Collaboration, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) principles and self-reflection by incorporating meaningful targets and considerations that equip public and private partners and other stakeholders to continue building on program goals toward impacts that support Armenia's trajectory to equitable access to water.