As part of the project “Building resilience against COVID-19 through WASH and waste management support in urban informal settlements”, the monitoring and evaluation survey was conducted in 23 locations of informal settlements in eight townships in March 2023. The objective was to understand the impact and sustainability of the project interventions in the target areas through comparison of the project beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries and results from three different phases done in different periods.

The questionnaire covered knowledge, attitude and practices related to waste segregation, waste disposal, compost making and reduction of plastic use. Furthermore, the questionnaire explored the beneficiaries’ level of satisfaction with the intervention and sought their recommendations to further improve waste management.

Both beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries were selected randomly from the communities concerned and all of them come from different households. Altogether 575 respondents (80% are women), 345 beneficiaries and 230 non-beneficiaries participated in the survey. The study also collected qualitative information from UN-Habitat officials in order to triangulate collected quantitative data based on field observation and communications with stakeholders.