Impact story

Our colleague Kennedy about WaterStarters

Kennedy, our Kenyan project leader, on what makes the WaterStarters programme different from other water projects he has worked on.

20 November 2022 Nairobi, Kenya Kennedy, Kenya project lead

A short behind the scenes.

Kennedy leads the WaterStarters work in Kenya. In a short video interview he takes viewers behind the scenes and answers the question he gets asked most often: what actually makes this programme innovative?

The parts he keeps coming back to.

  • Community equity of 15 percent, which changes the way everyone treats the site from day one.
  • The revenue share formula, which is simple enough that everyone can hold it in their head.
  • The health programme running in parallel with the engineering, not after it.

The bit that surprised him.

About 1 in 3 people the network serves said the biggest change was not the water itself. It was the time and trust that the reliable service returned to the household.

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