Presentation of the TAF to the WASHTech Uganda Core Team, Kampala, 26/08/2011

1. Investing in adequate technologies for
sustainable WASH services (2011-2013)
Presentation of the TAF to the WASHTech Uganda Core Team,
Kampala, 26/08/2011
NETWAS Uganda

2. Technology Assessment Framework
(TAF)
The development, field testing and dissemination of the TAF is the
heart of WASHTech.
Key purposes of the TAF:
•Assessment of potential of a specific technology
•Guidance for the uptake process (planning, monitoring and analysis of
processes to pilot and scale up of technologies)
Key users of the TAF:
•Local government, national government, action research, donors
•NGO and small and medium enterprise (SME), training and academia,
informed households

3. Technology Assessment Framework
(TAF)
How the TAF is being developed:
• Development led by SKAT, in consultation with all project
partners and stakeholders in the 3 countries
• Development of a TAF concept and a final first draft
• The final first draft will be field tested in all 3 countries on
technologies that have already been introduced
• Amendments based on the field test
The concept is still a document in progress.

4. Technology Assessment Framework
(TAF)
Structure of the TAF:
TAF Component 1 for the assessment of
potential of a specific technology
TAF Component 2 for guidance for the
uptake process
Will focus on the assessment of
potential of a specific technology in a
selected context.
The user will get a picture of the issue
based on objective criteria. The
interpretation of the “picture” will remain
the task of the user(s). An assessment is
not a selection of one option out of a
variety of options.
On the basis of the results of the TAF
Component 1 the user can start entering
the decision taking process.
Will include a guidance tool for the
design and analysis of a specific
technology uptake approach.
This component will describe the
phases of the uptake process, the roles
of key actors for different uptake
approaches and provide support to the
TAF user in the planning of a uptake
process.
For the uptake of technologies
different approaches can be followed.

5. Technology Assessment Framework
(TAF)

6. TAF Component 1 (Assessment of potential)
2 main steps:
•
Screening
Based on guiding questions which will ask specific questions with respect to
– The technology, in particular its function, performance, characteristics, requirements
and preconditions for working .
– The context, which included the physical environment, the social and economic
situation, the institutional set up and with respect to the current level of service.
• Assessment
Also based on guiding questions and covering
– Six dimensions for sustainability (Economy and financial; Environmental; Social;
Organisations, institutional, legal; Skills and Knowhow; Technology / Product) and
– Two stakeholder perspectives (User / Producer of a specific technology, and wider
institutional set up in WASH sector)
 At the end: Summary Assessment Sheet

7. TAF Component 1 - Screening
2 parts in the screening:
• Screening 1 on Technical applicability
• Screening 2 on Real needs
Tools used during screening:
• Fact Sheet
• Context Sheet
• Screening Sheet, covering Screening 1 and Screening 2

8. TAF Component 1 - Assessment
Assessment done using a matrix, which is filled in using guiding questions:
For each cell, based on the result of the guiding questions, a scoring is applied:

9. TAF Component 1 - Summary
Main steps / tools:
Outputs:

10. TAF Component 2 (Guidance on uptake)
Based on the theoretical phases of technology uptake process:

11. TAF Component 2 (Guidance on uptake)
Will consider three approaches for the technology uptake process:
A. Approach where investment costs for infrastructure are highly subsidized or
covered by government/donor and where user are in charge or take over full costs for
O&M; this approach is common for most of the programmes which have been
designed and led by governments and external donors (“Conventional approach ”)
B. Approach where investment costs are shared and with substantial contribution
from government or external donors for covering costs or even providing O&M.
C. Approach where investment costs and costs and responsibility for O& M are fully
covered by users; there is no subsidies from external sources for investment nor for
O&M, but maybe support marketing and promotion; in where the user decides and
invests in the technology; one well known example is the so called “market based
approach”.

12. TAF Component 2 (Guidance on uptake)
Will use 4 (5) main tools:
•(Mapping of actors)
•Functional Analysis Matrix with generic description of functions and tasks
•Mapping of actors interactions
•Phasing of Uptake process
•Description of tasks of key actors involved
Complementary information for the planning or analysis of an uptake
process can be generated by the TAF user by applying additional tools or
checking linkages: SWOT-Analysis, link to the Technology Assessment in TAF
Component 1, links to other phases.

13. TAF Component 2 - Functional Analysis Matrix
To be used for each of the 3 approaches and each of the 3 phases of the uptake
process

14. TAF Component 2 – Mapping of actors interactions
To be used for each of the 3 approaches and each of the 3 phases of the uptake
process

15. TAF Component 2 – Phasing of technology uptake process
To be used for each of the 3 approaches

16. TAF Component 2 – Description of tasks of key actors

17. TAF Component 2 (Guidance on uptake)