Research in action
The Sustainable Development Goals have ushered in a new era for the global health community, including Canadian NGOs. While many work to address unmet needs in low- and middle-income countries, few prioritize evaluation because they lack expertise and/or feel strongly about funding programs and not processes, given accountability to donors.
These are the issues that drive Stephanie Lu, PhD Candidate in the School of Public Health and Health Systems and GoHelP lab member. Stephanie has been collaborating with H2O4All, an NGO with no prior evaluation experience, to explore gaps in evaluative practice in small NGOs in a water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) context. Through mixed methods evaluation activities, tools are being developed to strengthen the evaluation of water-based interventions for the millions of vulnerable people who lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities worldwide.
Read more about Stephanie's current PhD work on her profile.