In Ethiopia, USAID’s Sustainable WASH Systems Learning Partnership (SWS) is using organizational network analysis (ONA) to measure change over time in the relationships and network structure of WASH actors in four separate locations.
Social network analysis is a tool that Sustainable WASH Systems partners use to better understand the actors in a WASH System, their relationship to each other, and the factors that affect their interactions.
Endemic issues of sustainability in the water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) sector have led to the rapid expansion of ‘system approaches’ for assessing the multitude of interconnected factors that affect WASH outcomes.