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ILF for WASH Foundational Support (IMM + IR) for WE!Hub Victoria Limited Technical Assistance on Investment Readiness (IR) and Impact Measurement & Management (IMM) The **Foundational Support Programme** is one of the [++technical assistance++](https://aquaforall.org/ilf-for-wash/ilf-for-wash-technical-assistance/) tracks available for impact-driven WASH enterprises, as part of the Impact-Linked Fund for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene ([++ILF for WASH++](https://aquaforall.org/ilf-for-wash/)). The programme is supported by the [++Social Finance Academy,++](https://social-finance-academy.org/) an initiative by Roots of Impact.

The programme aims to transfer knowledge and skills from certified service providers to WASH enterprises in two areas: **impact measurement and management (IMM)** and **investment readiness (IR)**. At the same time, the goal is to embed these areas into the specific business model of the selected enterprises.

One of the selected enterprises receiving support on both IMM and IR is  WE!Hub Victoria Limited (hereinafter referred to as 'WeTu’). WeTu purifies (via solar energy) raw water and sells clean and safe water for drinking at an affordable price via ATMs. The enterprise operates in a hub model business, where they have constructed 15 solar powered energy centers to run all operations in rural parts of the lake region in western Kenya. The enterprise has currently installed 20 water points (ATMs) in 10 communities in 4 counties within this region. Additionally, WeTu carries out sanitation and hygiene trainings to raise awareness about the importance of safe drinking water and partner closely with the counties health department to work with the Community Health Volunteers.
Project Maji Clusters in rural Kenya Innovate - Drinking water Project Maji introduces a novel blended-financed rural water delivery model, multiplying impact and driving sector change. In a 3-year programme, they will:

- Halve the price of their solar-powered water kiosks through value-engineering;
- Leverage economies of scale and install 34 kiosks, transforming over 40,000 lives;
- Introduce a blended finance model in which the capital investment is split 50/50 between a repayable loan and a grant;
- Water revenues will pay for O&M and pay back the loan.
- Reduce their donor dependency by 75% and challenge the status quo of rural water economics.
Water Supply Sustainability Improvement Programme Innovate - Drinking Water The Community Based Piped Water Supply Financing Project is the focus of the Water Supply Sustainability Improvement Programme (WSSIP) of C-WASH. It is a 12-month pilot project which seeks to demonstrate the ability of rural/small towns piped water services to accumulate savings for capital maintenance expenditure, and also demonstrate the potential of commercial and blended financing in improving rural/small towns piped water supply coverage and sustainability. The project has four main components including private/commercial financing of water supply, improved governance and TA.
DipTop: Use clean water to stop the spread of COVID-19 Scale Response Facility - Drinking water DipTop Agencies is a water service provider in Kibra slum in Kenya which provides drinking water. Since the start of COVID-19, they have had to deal with many impacts leading to difficulty operating and loss of income such as:

- fewer operating hours leading to fewer customers
- very little money in circulation which is affecting both business and customers ability to pay
- difficulty storing enough water to meet the demand of customers.
- other actors offering water for free.

Response Facility support was provided to increase storage capacity, provide handwashing facilities at their distribution sites, and cover staff costs.
Support for minority women toilet operators during COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal Scale Response Facility - Sanitation services Aerosan operates low-cost public sanitation facilities in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, connected to wastewater treatment. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a lockdown was imposed, leaving the streets of Kathmandu virtually empty with consequently no users at the sanitation facilities. The Response Facility has supported Aerosan’s operators during this lockdown and has helped 20 highly trained and experienced staff in both the Nepal office and at the public toilets. The fund provided salaries during the lockdown and supported the training of new Dalit female members of the Sanitation Workers Co-op. As a result, Aerosan was able to resume operations immediately once lockdown came to an end.
NAWASSCOAL: human waste transformed into fuel Scale Response Facility - Sanitation NAWASSCOAL Co. Ltd operates in Nakuru, Kenya, and transforms human waste into fuel briquettes which are an alternative to charcoal and firewood. A major user of their products is hotels and eateries in Nakuru. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, these establishments had to close and NAWASSCOAL lost an important revenue source. The support of Aqua for All’s Response Facility was used to adjust the sales strategy, as well as to prepare for testing of new machinery, equip staff with protective equipment and cover administrational expenses to keep the company afloat.
Unlock access to finance for small-scale water service providers in Kenya Scale Response Facility - Drinking water Upande is developing digital platforms to track assets including facilities, businesses, farms, utilities and key infrastructure. This gives water service providers the power to manage their assets on a prepaid basis, bringing them positive cash flow, saving time and money on revenue collection and avoiding disconnection/reconnection efforts. The modular platforms are powered by IoT (Internet of Things), GIS (Geographic Information Systems), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and machine learning.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Water service providers (WSP’s) are not able to pay the monthly subscriptions on time or at all, leading to the situation that Upande cannot meet the operational costs. At the same time, the financial difficulties induced by the Covid-19 pandemic have increased WSP’s interest in commercial loans. In earlier discussions, Family Bank and Sidian Bank showed interest in a tool developed by Upande, WASHmis, which would support them in deciding positively on providing a loan to WSPs. With support from Aqua for All's Response Facility, Upande is now updating the WASHmis tool, allowing WSP’s to report in such a way that they meet the reporting (loan) requirements of the financial institutions.
AKYAS Sanitation Bangladesh [b]The project aims to adapt and implement a new container-based sanitation system with a sustainable business model among rural households in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The system provides safely managed sanitation, on-site fecal sludge management, and upcycling of fecal waste into valuable by-products. We will evaluate the social acceptability of the system and test different business models, and prepare to scale the solution to reach more households. The project’s goals are to improve access to sanitation and upcycle fecal waste in a financially sustainable manner within the local toilet economy[/b]
W2AF PRITAP for WaterKiosk Kenya Scale - Finance for WASH As part of the Water Access Acceleration Fund (W2AF) established by Danone Communities in partnership with Incofin IM, Aqua for All is providing non-repayable grant funding to finance Pre-Investment Technical Assistance Projects (PRITAP) for a number of potential W2AF investees to address the key weaknesses and gaps to scale and build a pipeline of investment-ready enterprises.

One of the selected enterprises is WaterKiosk, a Safe Water Enterprise that uses solar-based desalination systems to clean highly saline and/or brackish water, especially targeting the off-grid communities. The company has operations in Kenya, Somaliland and Tanzania with further plans to expand in the Sub Saharan region.

The pre-investment TA provided by Intellecap will help WaterKiosk to build a robust system to report accurate operational and impact data (finance and non-financial metrics), develop and implement effective sales, marketing and communication strategy and better understand its human capital needs.
The Adventure Project COVID Water Relief Match for Ghana - Saha Global Scale Response Facility - Drinking water The Adventure Project is a US non-profit organisation that adds venture capital to create jobs in developing countries, focusing on Environment, Health, Hunger and Water. They partner with the Response Facility on behalf of Saha Global in Ghana. 

Saha Global is a safe water enterprise (SWE) operating in last-mile communities in Nothern Ghana. They employ an implementation team that launches women-led water treatment businesses in communities with no existing clean water sources or projects. 

Due to COVID-19, the government of Ghana mandated the free handout of water. In alignment with this, Saha created Emergency Water Funds (EWF) for each of their partner communities which allowed access to free water. The funds also provide support with hygiene education and PPE.  

The Response Facility supported Saha Global to cover the final three months of the EWF (January – March 2021) and helped to transition all communities back to their regular social enterprise model.
The Naivasha Ushirika Water Project Scale Response Facility - Drinking water The Naivasha Ushirika Water Project is a community-based organisation providing water to 20,000 inhabitants of Naivasha. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of their customers faced difficulties paying water bills and, as a result, Ushirika ran into negative cash flow. Looking at their operational expenses, they decided to invest in replacing the current grid energy supply with solar energy, which will significantly reduce costs in the long run. 

To finance the upgrades, Ushirika approached Family Bank but, being a CBO, they were not considered eligible for the needed loan. Aqua for All is, therefore, providing a guarantee on the loan to Family Bank and encouraging Ushirika to start using ERP systems in order to improve operational efficiency and obtain overviews on their financial performance for Family Bank.
Women Business Centres and Innovative Financing for Upland Water Management in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh Via Water - Drinking Water In order to address inadequate[color=black] access to safe water and sanitation for minority communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh and improve health and wellbeing, the proposed pilot will work with seven established women’s business centres (WBCs) to reach approximately 10,000 under-resourced individuals in remote parts of the region with safe water and improved sanitation. This pilot will work with local partners to test the efficacy of enterprise-based water provision and innovative financing models which position women as leaders in sustainable WASH in their communities.[/color]
Making safe drinking water affordable to low income consumers Scale - Drinking Water - A district level sales scale-up in Bangladesh Folia Water intends to address the lack of safe drinking water for the working poor with an efficient and affordable water filter solution for BoP consumers. Folia Water has already achieved an initial product-market fit with an impressive 48% regular customers and is ready to scale up in order to become a sustainable business model.

With the support from Aqua for All, Folia will scale up to a sub-district retail sales pilot which will lead to a district scale launch and subsequently to a national commercial launch in Bangladesh and replicating in other South Asian countries in the long term.
Structuring waste-to-value projects to enable public investment and city-wide scale Scale - Sanitation Sanivation is partnering with water utilities to structure innovative yet bankable projects to scale sustainable (faecal) waste to value solutions. By securing projects in partnerships with local government and international financial institutions, Sanivation aims to replicate waste to value solutions and as a business can earn revenue from designing, building, and operating the city-wide treatment plants. Sanivation has shown that city-wide, waste-to-value treatment plants can be operationally sustained through the production and sale of reuse products, enabling this infrastructure to have long-term sustainability. Aqua for All supports this ambition by enabling Sanivation to reach the following goals:

- Verify that a proposed faecal sludge treatment plant (FSTP) concept is technically, economically, financially and environmentally feasible to implement and operate.
- Make the selected utilities and county administrations aware of the need to prioritise sanitation in their planning processes.
- Jointly structure FSTP projects with utilities and local county governments to access funding from international finance institutions for replication of these waste-to-value solutions.
VegiFish: TriMark using treated wastewater for vegetable and fish production in Ghana Innovate - Sanitation TriMark Aquaculture Centre, a private start-up in Kumasi, Ghana, is collecting, treating and reusing municipal wastewater for vegetable and fish culture since 2018. In order to address some operational challenges and improve their business model, TriMark is now constructing “VegiFish”: a fish hatchery to produce quality fingerlings and vegetables in a greenhouse. They have been supported by IMWI, KMA, KNUST, Waste Enterprisers; Ghana Climate Innovation Center and Aqua for All. TriMark won the first prize for Sanitation Challenge for Ghana in 2019.
Accelerate Accelerators: Community of Practice to enhance WASH acceleration efforts Innovate/Tech Ass The Acceleration Community of Practice (CoP) has been established to standardize our acceleration work and enable accelerators to provide more effective support to WASH enterprises. 5 CoP meetings are organized to foster exchange and mutual learning for our acceleration partners.
Young Wash Connect (YWC) Mali Innovate - Entrepreneurial ecosystem development The Association of Young Water and Sanitation Professionals of Mali, AJPEA Mali is a young apolitical, non-profit organization created in 2013 under the umbrella of African Water Association (AAE). In partnership with Aqua for All, the objective is to strengthen the organisation and create a strong network that organises activities that improve the skills and capabilities of young professionals in the WASH sector: WASH-Mali platform, intergenerational knowledge transfer, mentoring and training young people. In this way, the AJPEA will be revitalised and the project will contribute to growth and sustainability of the network
WASH service at household level through cooperatives in Ethiopia Amhara, Ethiopia [list]
[*]The cooperatives promotion commission to design a system 5/5/6/9 or 25%; 
[*]The unions to select their first PCs to start filter distribution & design their phased approach 
[*]The PCs to receive 20% profit margin & use it in their own way by adapting the 5/6/9 utilities marketing system
[*]The price of every filter remains the same distributed whether by utility or cooperatives harmonised approach
[*]The export FOREX will help the supply of filters in importation and /or materials needed for filters production
[*]Scaling after project end is ensured from revenue generated from sales at unions & PCs level.  
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Live Clean Initiative Zambia Scale Response Facility - Sanitation Live Clean Initiatives is a social enterprise operating in Zambia which manages public toilet and shower blocks in urban low-income areas such as markets. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they have seen an increase in demand due to the higher importance of proper sanitation and hygiene.

Response Facility support is used to meet the increased demand, grow outreach and offset the higher costs of consumables.
Sarphati Sanitation Challenge and Symposium Innovate - Develop and support / Sanitation In 2021, Aqua for All, World Waternet and Accenture launched the first Sarphati Sanitation Challenge. The Challenge is a transformation of the Sarphati Sanitation Awards, which have sought to honour entrepreneurial contributions to the global sanitation challenge since 2013. 

The theme for this edition was “Sanitation and Health”. We called on entrepreneurs with a viable, scalable and locally-embedded sanitation solution to apply, in order to accelerate access to safe sanitation for all. The winner received a catalytic grant of €100,000 to boost their solution and additional support from Accenture in the scaling-up journey.
LOLC TA FACILITY TA facility to conduct a market assessment for a WASH loan product in Cambodia The TA will be used by LOLC Cambodia to explore the SME WASH market and prepare for part 2 of the transaction.

· The key topics to be addressed with the TA are:

o Market Potential and Ecosystem mapping;

o Product development and capacity building;

o Market development and product roll out support;

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The Adventure Project COVID Water Relief Match for Uganda Scale Response Facility - Drinking water The Adventure Project is a US non-profit organisation that "adds venture" capital to create jobs in developing countries, focusing on Environment, Health, Hunger and Water. They are applying on behalf of activities carried out by Water for People in Uganda.

Water for People is a non-profit that promotes drinking water and sanitation services using their “Everyone Forever” model in the Kamwenge District. Response Facility support was used to meet higher demand for water during the pandemic. This was achieved by constructing a booster station for water supply in highly elevated areas and providing handwashing stations and water supply to healthcare facilities that were experiencing COVID-19 spikes.
MFI support for introduction of financial products for WASH in Amhara, Ethiopia Ethiopia Access to finance is one of the bottlenecks for many households and SMEs to get improved services in water and sanitation, while MFIs have rarely developed a portfolio for such micro-credits. Fair and Sustainable will develop the capacity in at least 5 MFIs operating in Amhara Region to have a substantial portfolio on WASH lending. In this way, it will cooperate with other projects of Aqua for All in the Amhara Region.
WaterStarters – An initiative of MegaGroup & Amref Ventures Innovate - Drinking water MegaGroup and Amref have joined forces to create synergy in their two core competencies: water supply systems and community-led health promotion. This has led to the development of WaterStarters: a franchise that will rehabilitate and/or construct 600 boreholes, impacting the economic and health situation in rural and peri-urban Kenyan communities while offering impact financiers and donors an effective and sustainable program to finance. Aqua for All is supporting piloting the concept and aiming to prove that a blended finance model which includes commercial finance, is possible to create sustainable rural water supply systems while creating the necessary social and health impacts.
Support of social enterprise in small scale water provision — SANA Scale Response Facility - Drinking water SANA Holdings Ltd Is a Social Enterprise established by SANA International to contribute towards the realisation of SDG6 through the provision of professional services to small scale water supply. Through innovative technical capacity building, infrastructure development and financial support services they provide support to six small scale water utilities in Kisumu county, Kenya. 

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the households served by the partner utilities faced challenges paying fees and opted for unsafe traditional sources for most domestic uses except drinking water. As a result, the revenues for both the utilities and SANA dropped. The support of Aqua for All's Response Facility is designed to enable the utilities to resume and upgrade their operations.
DloHaiti: Safe water access through decentralised water enterprises Scale Response Facility - Drinking Water DloHaiti is a safe water enterprise providing water infrastructure and IT tools for local entrepreneurs to ensure clean water for approximately 150,000 people living in underserved communities in Haiti. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, DloHaiti experienced a strong increase in demand for safe water. The kiosks expanded their sales, but many sites had reached maximum production and distribution capacity.

Aqua for All’s Response Facility, therefore, agreed to provide DloHaiti with support to scale up their operations and increase water treatment units’ capacity to ensure distribution upgrades. This helped to meet the increased demand and accelerate access to drinking water. In addition, the COVID-19 mitigation measures such as the installation of handwashing stations at kiosks were deployed.
Young Water Fellowship Springboard Bangladesh Bangladesh The Young Water Fellowship Springboard is a targeted technical assistance programme offered to post-incubation level enterprises in Bangladesh. A cohort of 5 enterprises are selected to receive tailored coaching and support to further develop and pilot their business.
Woloo - Women's Powder Room Scale Response Facility - Sanitation / Hygiene Woloo is a retail store and washroom chain specifically for women, set up by women franchisees in India. With a vision to provide hygiene dignity, Woloo brings a tech enabled loo-discovery platform app that helps women to locate the nearest washroom, whenever they are away from their home or office.” Woloo developed an android app with a monthly subscription plan and intend to expand city by city across India. They are currently maintaining 1500 toilets (Woloo Powder Rooms) across Mumbai. 

As a result of the Covid-19 lockdowns in India, Woloo’s revenue fell by 95%, with costs (rent, pay roll, electricity, maintenance etc.) continuing as normal. Support was provided to help Woloo to keep the organisation afloat and sustain existing business operations.
SIINC complemented Technical Assistance Support for ATEC* Scale - Finance for WASH ATEC\* is a social enterprise that provides biodigesters to smallholder farmers in Cambodia and Bangladesh. This Technical Assistance support is taking place prior to ATEC's Social Impact Incentive support, which aims to strengthen ATEC's social and financial impact.

This 4 month TA intervention will support the enterprise to improve marketing and sales capacity related to behavioural change marketing to overcome behavioural barriers related to toilet connections to biodigesters. The focus is on identifying and implementing communication and sales strategies to better promote the benefits of both toilet connections of biodigesters, as well as convincing more households to switch to clean cooking. This TA support will amplify ATEC's efforts to reach the highest impact during the SIINC intervention.
Maji Milele: COVID-19 support for private WSPs and users of prepaid water ATMs Scale Response Facility - Drinking water & Hygiene Maji Milele is a Water ATM provider who also acts as a WSP in Siaya County for BoP customers. As a WSP, Maji Milele faced losses during the COVID-19 pandemic and received Response Facility support to provide a discount so customers could continue to access water.