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A locally and privately managed value chain to treat and value feacal sludges to improve living conditions and protect mangroves from littering in Diembering Innovate - Sanitation This project, led by Gret, aims to strengthen a small private sanitation company named CTD de Kabrousse, which has been operating a combined solid waste/sludge collection and treatment plant in Diembering, southern Senegal since 2006.

CTD is a women-led enterprise with significant potential to improve its business, both technically and operationally. Therefore, capacity building will be provided to strengthen the enterprise in financial management, HR management and marketing and communication aspects. In addition, technical support will focus on upgrading the old infrastructures to increase treatment capacity and in collaboration with the start-up Filtre Plante, they will construct 'planted drying beds', creating a low-tech nature-based solution for wastewater and sludge treatment. Finally, a local PPP model will be established to ensure institutional sustainability.

The overall objective of the project is to improve living conditions and the environment in the municipality of Diembering (25,000 inhabitants) by improving the operations of the existing private sanitation operator. Moreover, CTD represents an interesting business model for waste and sludge management services for secondary towns in Senegal, hence the project will monitor and explore the potential for scaling up to other small secondary Senegalese towns.
Emergency approach ICT infrastructure SWM Scale Response Facility - Develop and support Surinaamsche Water Maatschappij (SWM) is a public utility based in Paramaribo, Suriname. They normally work only from their office and on-site. Because of the pandemic, this was not possible anymore. Fewer people were allowed to go to the office and the work was greatly disturbed. Therefore,  Aqua for All's Response Facility supported SWM to invest in working-from-home solutions, including the implementation of a software system to facilitate real-time online working and the training of SWM to use the new software. This helped SWM to increase their resilience, improved efficiency and safeguarded their day-to-day operations and financial health.
Urine Re-use for Sunflower Farming and School Wash (URW) Scale Response Facility - Sanitation and School Wash Under the Football for Water (F4W) program 2012-2018 a pilot project on urine reuse and sunflower farming was developed as a business model to sustain the WASH facilities in the 50 F4W schools. Kamida enterprise was established and the Urine Reuse and Sunflower Farming for School Wash (USW) business model was designed for production of human urine based organic fertilizer with urine from local schools for use by local farmers as a direct revenue stream for school WASH and Life skill education.

This circular model has proven to be viable for sunflower products at a larger scale by capacitating small scale scale farmers in Migori county and surroundings. There is a large market for sunflower oil and related products in Kenya and a demand for affordable organic fertilizer, irrigation and farming equipment by small scale farmers. Irrigation schemes are provided in cooperation with local county government programs. The urine fertilizer is sold by Kamida to farmers, the sunflower seeds are bought again by Kamida and converted into a number of products including cooking oil, soap, lotion, animal feed, jelly cream etc. of which 20% of profit is allocated back to Creata for the purpose of sustaining School Wash and Life skill education. Further financial sustainability is needed in order for the model to 1) continue and scale use and sales of liquid urine in the area (Urigold) and 2) innovate with use of dry urine products by using bagasse from sugar cane plants to a usable certified and transportable product. Due to Covid-19 lockdown measures in the communities and at the schools, income and momentum has been lost and the urine collection facilities have not been maintained and are not in full production. The funding of Aqua for All is aimed to restore and stimulate the production side of this model again (schools and farmers) and make the model operational and financially viable and self-sustaining by January 2022
Folia Water: assistance to survive and thrive during COVID-19 pandemic Scale Response Facility - Drinking water Folia Water is a start-up company operating in Bangladesh and is currently in the final phase of their pilot project, in which they bring a new type of household filter (from paper/’coffee filter’) to Base of the Pyramid (BoP) consumers. Thanks to a Unilever/DFID transform grant, the pilot project with door-to-door sales has been launched from January 2020 onwards, meaning the organisation is not yet in the full commercialisation phase.

Due to the pandemic, the organisation has decided to extend their pilot project duration by six more months to complete the remaining activities. However, they are facing cash flow issues to execute these activities. Response Facility support was used to keep operations running, continue their sales pilot and increase marketing to generate higher revenues.
Test and feasibility of modular faecal sludge transfer station for manual pit emptiers in Ouagadougou Innovate - Sanitation This project is carried out by Practica Foundation in collaboration with ABASE (the association of manual pit emptiers in Ouagadougou) and ONEA (National Office of WASH) to improve the feacal sludge value chain in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 

Illegal dumping of faecal sludge by manual emptiers in the urban environment of Ouagadougou is frequent, because Faecal Sludge Treatment Plants are located too far from their working area. Based on a feasibility study, the modular Feacal Sludge Transfer Station concept has been identified as the most promising, feasible solution to address these sector challenges. The concept is designed to provide a legal transfer area, safe and odourless, easy to reach and used for manual pit emptiers, which will also contribute to the improvement of public health and the living environment.

This pilot project aims to test the concept and validate that it offers a solution to the current urban sanitation challenges. The testing phase focuses on proving the technology, operational and financial feasibility. By confirming the proof of concept (operation and business case) and preparing detailed design documents for construction /implementation, it will build the case and offer a solution to modernize the FSM sector in Burkina Faso.
WASH SME Accelerator Ghana Innovate - Sanitation / Drinking Water The Ghana WASH SME accelerator programme is developed and executed by cewas in collaboration with their local partner Skyfox. The 18-month programme aims to scale 8-10 high-potential WASH businesses in Ghana. The key objective is to make innovative WASH businesses investment-ready and scale their operations to reach more (rural)beneficiaries with their water or sanitation product and services.

The participating enterprises will develop an acceleration strategy, implement and receive investments for an acceleration project, get in-depth coaching and technical assistance, and will be matched with interested impact investors to create impact at scale.

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One Giant Leap Innovate - Develop and support Mina Guli and her team at Thirst Foundation are planning to launch a worldwide Water Campaign to remind the global community of the importance of water. The campaign raises awareness of the global water crisis in all UN member states, running 195 marathons in 195 countries (signatories to SDGs), leading up to the 2023 UN Water Decade Conference. The goal of the Campaign is to create a global movement and think together on how to solve the global water crisis.

Aqua for All concluded that such a worldwide campaign is needed: crucial to get more attention and motivate investors and other commercial funders to get involved in the water sector. Moreover, it is an inspiring initiative to liaise with. It has worldwide coverage and interesting collaborators such as the six founding partners and donors, SDC and RVO/DGIS’ Valuing Water Initiative including — connection is already made and agreed to align and pull together in this collaboration.

We provided a bridging grant of €49.000 based on the requested budget to overcome the current funding gap. We financed part of the team needed to make necessary preparations for the launch of the Water Campaign (in August 2021), e.g. writing and preparing proposal documents, strategic support, designing the social media materials, aligning with partners, etc.
Emergency COVID-19 response program — Kenya Private School Association Scale Response Facility - Drinking water / Sanitation / Hygiene Kenya Private School Association (KPSA) consists of 11,000 private schools across Kenya, which have experienced a number of setbacks due to COVID-19. Some of their main challenges are related to WASH needs such as increased water quality and quantity, handwashing infrastructure, and adoption of good hygiene habits in schools.

The Response Facility funding is used to design and implement a package to help KPSA members adapt to the pandemic environment. This includes adopting WASH requirements compliant with the Ministry of Education and helping the association members to secure commercial finance for WASH needs.
IW+ Water ATM de-risking via lease finance in Kenya Scale - Drinking water service Water ATMs are the solution to guaranteeing sustainable and quality water access to underserved populations in the absence of piped infrastructure. Aqua for All’s support aims to de-risk financing of ATM projects by private investors – in this case, Untapped who provides a lease-finance option.  This will increase the deployment of the technology as well as boost private capital investment in the sector. The project will provide insights into the opportunity of leasing assets in the water sector, as an alternative financing strategy to mobilise more capital.
RESOB Project (Water Resources in the SOcle of Burkina Faso) Innovate - IWRM The RESOB project aims to initiate changes in the practices of actors involved in groundwater detection in Burkina Faso. The project is carried out by Georeva Afrique, in a consortium with IRD and 2iE.

The project has three main paths for change:

– Axis 1: Revise the drilling implementation procedure.

– Axis 2: Demonstrate the economic interest of changing practices.

– Axis 3: Share knowledge by adopting an inclusive approach.

The ultimate goal of the project is to enable Burkinabe people better access to drinking water.
Geoseismic Water Company, Kenya Scale Response Facility - Drinking water Geoseismic Water Company is a private water service provider that supplies water to a vulnerable community located between a peri-urban part of Nairobi and a rural part of Machakos County. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they faced issues such as increased demand, the inability of customers to pay bills in a full or timely manner, low pumping rate due to poor pump condition, high power bills and spotty power supply.

Response Facility support was used to increase overall water production and coverage.

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Access to safe water creates business opportunity for dairy farmers and cooperatives Provide safe water for domestic users and for cleaning of dairy installations Dairy farmers lack access to safe water. Yet if they would have access, their milk quality would improve and their income would increase, enabling them to pay for safe water. Currently, milk is collected in milk cans by transporters on mopeds, who deliver them to the dairy cooperatives and return them [i]empty[/i] to the farmers. But these cans can be returned [i]filled[/i] with safe water by setting up a water supply chain at the cooperative level, reaching at least 1,500 households. Once proof-of-concept of this reverse supply chain is established, it can be scaled to 3 million people in 10 years’ time.
HappyTap handwashing stations: an immediate solution that lasts Scale Response Facility - Hygiene HappyTap is a start-up that sells portable handwashing stations in Bangladesh. It also has regional offices in Vietnam, Cambodia and Singapore. In February 2020, after two years of research and development, they launched production in Bangladesh. At the time of the launch, HappyTap planned to sell to household consumers but quickly faced disruptions in retail supply chains due to COVID-19. Further, the pandemic highlighted the need for flexible handwashing stations in institutions.

HappyTap requested support from the Response Facility to quickly adapt to the pandemic, meet the increased demand and build capacity to change their retail strategy, refocusing on institutions such as schools and healthcare facilities.
SIINC for ATEC* Cambodia Scale - Finance for WASH ATEC\* is a social enterprise providing biodigesters to smallholder farmers in Cambodia, and more recently in Bangladesh. Their standalone biodigester collects waste and transforms it into biogas for cooking. 

Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) model aims to spur both financial and impact additionality. SIINC will support ATEC\* in becoming more commercially attractive by providing an additional revenue stream while creating more impact. The following three metrics will be assessed: 

- Percentage of households switching from cooking with wood fuels to biogas; 
- Customers’ satisfaction measured via the Net Promoter Score; 
- Percentage of households with ATEC\* toilet connections. 

The metrics are incentivising: 

- The depth of impact — by focusing on the poorest customers, who still tend to rely on wood fuels for cooking and energy purposes; 
- The quality of impact — by focusing on customer satisfaction, ensuring the best possible service is provided; 
- Strengthened sanitation connection — by consolidating the link to human and not only animal and bio waste.
Maji safi salama na Nazava – Safe water with Nazava Scale - Drinking Water With this proposal we aim to seize the opportunity of using well-established distribution systems to serve low-income households with access to safe drinking water. It is now time to reach the population off-the water-grid with access to self-supply solutions such as the household water filters from Nazava.
With this proposal we aim to:
Water filters in use in Kenya 79,935
People with improved health in Kenya 311,748
Accumulative Customer savings (US$) $2.2 million
Accumulative CO2 reductions
(ton CO2 equivalent) 82
Accumulative Time saved by women (working years, FTE) 7,319
CBS Carbon credits methodology development Methodology Development **Goal** of the project: to establish a carbon offset methodology for CBS, encompassing all stages of the waste management chain from containment through to re-use activities, which is approved by a suitable body. 

**Aim** of the project: to enable Container-Based Sanitation (CBS) providers, with sufficient scale, to become certified for carbon credits with easier registration and reduced complexity compared to current options. Which in turn, will help them to generate income from carbon offsets, increasing and diversifying their revenue streams, supporting CBS providers in becoming a more profitable business solutions for sanitation.
Safe Water at point of use programme through Aggregator model in Amhara Region Ethiopia [i]While access still remains 57%, water quality in Ethiopia has been adressed only through chlorination. Due to this, since 2017, A4A has been helping the distribution of water filters for PoU water treatment through water utilities on paid basis in Amhara region with 20% profit to make it a business case. However, A4A could not go beyond 4 zones (80 utilities) and decided for institutionalizing the effort. By supporting the idea, the AATWU (the aggregator) decided to distribute filters across the region through all the 230 water utilities on a business model. This teazer is for scaling it.
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Progressive Utility Services Smart Water meters Progressive Water Utility is a WSP in the outskirts of Nairobi. They have three boreholes, of which two are being used for commercial operations.  This application concerns one community served, a low-income area with mostly informal workers who have faced economic challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic and have therefore not been able to prioritise their utility bills. Prior to the pandemic, they were able to achieve upwards of 95% collections, which has now dropped to under 40% and costs the utility a lot of time in resources to try and collect. 

Although they do collect revenues from this community, the Utility also subsidises some costs for these connections and for the most marginalised members of the community as a type of CSR. That is why water prices have not increased despite increasing costs of electricity and fuel and why they have not shut off connections due to the non-payment. 

PWU has 214 connections in this area serving over 5000 users, currently on a post-paid monthly collection system. Prior to Covid-19, they were They would like to install pre-paid smart meters on these connections to allow customers to have more control over their finances and water usage. Users will be able to view their usage data and pay using mobile money. They have already begun to use these meters in the other area they serve, with good results and positive feedback from the customers.
Oshun Senegal — scaling social impact and raising awareness Scale - Drinking water Oshun was created in 2017 to develop water kiosks, a decentralised solution for access to safe drinking water adapted to Sahelian countries, especially Senegal. Thanks to water treatment and remote monitoring systems designed in-house, Oshun manages the technical aspects of water kiosks. 

In the coming years, Oshun plans to expand in Senegal from 60 to at least 200 water kiosks, allowing more than 150.000 people to drink safe water every day. In the current development stage, the enterprise is willing to invest in social marketing and communication. The support of Aqua for All’s funds will allow them to scale up quickly and offer a reliable service to rural and periurban populations.
Accelerating Rural Water Supply Entrepreneurs in Eastern Africa Innovate - Drinking Water / Sanitation [size=000000]The Rural Water Accelerator is scaling 8-10 high-potential rural water businesses in Kenya, Uganda and possibly in Tanzania and Rwanda. The key objective is to make innovative rural water service providers investment ready and scale their operations to reach hundred-thousands or even millions of rural beneficiaries. The participating enterprises will develop an acceleration strategy, implement and recieve investments for an acceleration project, get in-depth coaching, technical assistance and will be matched with interested investors to create impact at scale. [/size]
Disruptive Rural Water Management Model for Improved Service Delivery and Sustainable Water Supply Innovate - Drinking water Disruptive Rural Water Management Model for Improved Service Delivery and Sustainable Water Supply is delivered through private entrepreneurship on public-private partnership (PPP). Rural Water Management Solutions Limited (RUWASCO) is a Kenyan registered social enterprise with a mission to support county governments, local communities and individuals to sustainably manage water supply systems. They do so by providing professional operation and maintenance services while employing innovative service delivery models, the latest IT solutions and public-private partnerships (PPPs).
Maji Buckets handwashing stations in rural Ghana Scale Response Facility - Hygiene Project Maji is a non-profit social enterprise that currently operates a network of 63 water kiosks in Ghana and Kenya. Their operations were affected by the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions and the government-imposed free water mandate, which resulted in a loss of revenue.

With support from Aqua for All, Project Maji launched the #Sweat4Soap campaign together with ultrarunner Mina Guli to mobilise support for SDG 6 and raise global awareness on the importance of handwashing. For every 100 km logged by runners around the world, one handwashing station was donated to a rural community in Ghana. In total, 520 handwashing stations were locally produced together with Ghana Disability Organisation reaching 62.000 people. Aqua for All’s support was used to produce a total of 520 handwashing stations that were installed in 62 communities, provide community WASH trainings as well as to buy and distribute soap bars.  

With this successful project, Project Maji helped to counter the spread of COVID-19, created local inclusive employment, while developing a cheaper, locally produced handwashing solution.
Wave Accelerator Innovate - Techn Ass Access to safe water and sanitation remains low in Ethiopia. This is largely attributed to low private sector development in the Ethiopian WASH sector. By supporting high-potential WASH ventures in Ethiopia with a comprehensive business development service, Wave Accelerator (WASH Ventures Accelerator) program aims to revolutionize the Ethiopian WASH sector. Through this program, iceaddis will accelerate the ventures in the program to launch and scale their WASH products and services more sustainably and grow their operations in the future.
District-Wide Safe Water for Wassa East, Ghana Scale - Drinking water Moving away from a reliance on community management, Water4 is partnering with a social enterprise, Access Development (AD) Ghana, to provide district-wide safe water coverage to more than 100,000 residents of Wassa East, Ghana in 2021 with a branded approach called NUMA. Leveraging innovative finance towards AD’s expansion into a second district, the project provides a blueprint for enterprises in 17 other countries of operation. As a result of the project supported by Aqua for All, a total of 19,500 people will gain access to sustainable, safe water services. Additionally, AD will develop a long-term business plan outlining job creation and government partnership opportunities to enable future business growth.
Strengthen Swiss Fresh Water’s investment readiness and sustainability SCALE - Drinking Water Swiss Fresh Water is an established safe water enterprise which, through its Senegalese subsidiary West Africa Water, operates a franchise model aimed at providing access to safe and affordable drinking water in peri-urban and urban Senegal.

In recent years, the enterprise has grown its franchise network and built its brand Diam'O, while making progress in operations, customer loyalty and ensuring water quality. However, at this stage, the company still needs some support to strengthen its capacity, boost its water sales to achieve financial sustainability and develop a strategy for further scaling.

Through this partnership, Aqua for All is supporting the enterprise to open new water salespoints (satellite stores) and continue to roll out its water delivery service, which will enable it to reach more people while increasing the company's viability, making them better placed for an investment.

In addition, an environmental pilot project will be carried out at one kiosk to improve its environmental performance and reduce its carbon footprint, as a blueprint for further expansion. Climate impact is foreseen through the installation of renewable energy solutions (solar panels and e-bikes for delivery) and the reduction of water wastage by reusing this for car washing.
JOELEX, Accessible, Water, Sanitation & Showering for All Innovate - Water and Sanitation Through a pay per user model, JOELEX makes water,sanitation&howering accessible& affordable for the urban poor in Kampala,Uganda by designing and building Smart-enabled, fully automated, modular, real-time monitored public water,sanitation and showering facilities within urban slums,trading centers and cities.

With operations spaning for the last 3 years, JOELEX has served over 189,500 people i.e girls,women.children &the youth& has now designed a franchise operational model,that it's going to use to reach 2-4.5 million people with water,sanitation&showering services in the next 2-5 years.