Can peer-to-peer learning strengthen local government capacity to deliver sustainable and equitable sanitation services in low resource settings?

-挑战：加强地方政府提供卫生服务的能力是确保我们在地区和全国取得成果的必要条件。在不考虑当地能力或资源的情况下，自上而下地将最佳实践从一个地方转移到另一个地方，给行政部门带来了过重的负担，导致了它们的失败。地方政府之间的横向P2P在一个特定的系统内运作，并在类似的条件下，可以支持地方创新和思想的传播，同时避免自上而下的陷阱，碳复制干预。P2P学习在发展中很流行，但是大部分的证据基础都集中在西方背景下的干预或全球北方和全球南方之间的国际倡议。在中低收入背景下，地方政府之间对P2P的研究有限。-方法：提出了一种参与式行动研究方法，与执行伙伴合作，在特定国家开发和测试P2P学习倡议。在整个倡议过程中，将从参与者那里收集数据。还将与执行伙伴和参与推广的其他人员定期举办讲习班，以反思收集的数据并调整干预措施设计。然后将对参与者进行跟踪，以评估该计划的结果和影响，包括服务提供的规模和质量的任何变化。此外，我计划进行两到四个关于P2P学习倡议的案例研究，这些案例也可以借鉴并为研究项目提供信息。-影响：本研究的主要目的是在低收入或中等收入的地方政府之间建立P2P学习的证据基础，同时采取P2P学习干预措施，提高地方能力。如果成功，该项目可以扩大并制定蓝图，其他国家和地区可以根据其情况加以调整。

- The challenge:Strengthening capacities of local governments to deliver sanitation services is imperative to ensure we have area- and nation-wide outcomes. The top-down transfer of best practices from one place to another without accounting for local capabilities or resources overburdens administrations setting them up for failure. Horizontal P2P between local governments operating within a particular system, and under similar conditions, could support the spread of local innovation and ideas while avoiding the pitfalls of top-down, carbon copying of interventions.P2P learning is popular in development however much of the evidence base has focused on intervention in western contexts or international initiatives between the global North and the global South. There is limited scholarship on P2P between local governments within a low or middle income setting. - The approach:A participatory action research approach is proposed, working with an implementing partner to develop and test a P2P learning initiative in a particular country. Throughout the initiative data will be collected from participants. Regular workshops will also be held with the implementing partners and others involved in the rollout to reflect on data collected and tweak the intervention design. Participants will then be followed-up with to assess outcomes and impacts of the initiative, including any changes to the scale and quality of service provision. In addition, I plan on undertaking two to four case studies on P2P learning initiatives that can also be drawn on and inform the research project. - Impact:The primary aims of the research is to develop an evidence base on P2P learning between local governments in a low or middle income setting alongside a P2P learning intervention which increases local capacities. If successful the project could be expanded and a blueprint developed which other countries and regions could adapt to their context.