The people, and the partners.

The team is a mix of central office staff, franchisees running the sites, and two founding partners who have been alongside us since the beginning.

How the team is set up.

The WaterStarters office looks after the pieces that make the model hold together across the network. That covers engineering standards, finance, monitoring, and the franchise agreements themselves. Day to day, the water gets served by the people at each site, and that is where most of the work happens.

Leadership

Programme leadership

Looks after the model as a whole, spends a lot of time with county governments, and holds the partnership between Amref Health Africa and MegaGroup Trade together.

Engineering

Water engineering

Hydrogeology, borehole design, solar sizing, kiosk and piped network layout, and the prepaid meter roll out. Most of what you can touch at a site started as a drawing here.

Community

Community health

Health care providers from around the community, many of them Amref community health workers, who lead the launches and come back for the follow up campaigns.

Franchisees

Local entrepreneurs

The women and men who invest the 15 percent, look after the site every day, and share in the revenue through the FRS formula.

Data

Monitoring and finance

A shared dashboard that pulls together uptime, sales, and each site’s profit and loss. It also feeds the scenario planner used to size any new site.

Advisory

County government liaison

Every site sits inside a county water plan. We work closely with the county administrations, and we rely on them as much as they rely on us.

The partners we work alongside.

WaterStarters exists because two organisations decided to build the model together, and because independent certifications keep us honest.

Founding partner · Health
Amref Health Africa

Amref Health Africa

Africa’s largest health development organisation. Amref’s community health workers run the hygiene education, the launch campaigns and the follow up. Water without hygiene is only half of the job.

Founding partner · Water
MegaGroup Trade

MegaGroup Trade

Water technology and engineering. MegaGroup designs the boreholes, solar systems, kiosks and the prepaid metering that keeps every site accountable.

Certification
CBF

CBF certified

The Central Bureau for Fundraising validates how we raise and spend money. Every euro donated is traceable, and we report on it.

Certification
ANBI

ANBI certified

Registered as a public benefit organisation. Donations are tax deductible in the jurisdictions where the certification applies.