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Clean Water Access Initiative

Restoring community water points and building the local maintenance capacity that keeps them running.

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Demonstration content. This project restores and maintains community water points, pairing each installation with a trained local caretaker and a funded route to spare parts.

Function checks are recorded quarterly and published alongside this project record so readers can see whether the work is still working.

What this project sets out to do

  • Restore safe water access Rehabilitate non-functioning boreholes and storage
  • Build local capacity Train and equip a caretaker at every water point
  • Keep it working Fund a spare-parts route and quarterly function checks

How the work is delivered

  1. Assessment

    Hydrological and community assessment at each site

  2. Rehabilitation

    Repair or replace pumps, storage and distribution points

  3. Training

    Caretaker training and handover to the community committee

  4. Monitoring

    Quarterly function checks recorded and published

Reported results

  • 18,400People with improved accessDemo figure — 2025
  • 14Water points restoredDemo figure — 2025
  • 91%Functioning at 12 monthsDemo figure — 2025 monitoring

Demonstration text. Access figures only matter alongside function rates: a restored water point that fails within a year has not solved anything. Both numbers are published together for that reason.

Source: Demo figure — internal monitoring, quarterly function checks