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This paper showcases innovative microfinance approaches to bring affordable safe water to the poor. In Kenya, a collaborative program is bringing together community-based organizations and micro-lenders to provide better water services to poor people and generates lessons for similar initiatives.
MEHTA, M. VIRIEE, K NJOROGE, S. (2007): Helping a New Breed of Private Water Operators Access Infrastructure Finance: Microfinance for Community Water Schemes in Kenya. (= 25 ). Washington: World Bank URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDFThis paper examines how monitoring and evaluation has been strengthened rural water supply programmes in Uganda in recent years and what various challenges are still remaining, considering their implications for realising the human right to water.
QUIN, A. BALFORS, B. KIELLÉN, M. (2016): Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Water Supply in Uganda: Implications for Achieving the Human Right to Water. In: Riedel, E. ; Rothen, P. (2006): The Human Right to Water. 33-54. URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]A broad collection of impact measurement tools and indicators designed to consolidate otherwise fragmented impact measurement and management (IMM) resources and direct users to those that are best tailored to their needs.
GLOBAL IMPACT INVESTORS NETWORK (2018): Impact toolkit. URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]The thesis focuses on various aspects of Hydrologic’s innovative business model and the different elements and difficulties in relation to Cambodia’s water sector. The author identifies strategies to scale up the company in another country and provides helpful, praxis-oriented insights into the development, the needs, the challenges and potentials of the company in the scaling process.
KOHLER, S. (2016): Going to Scale with Safe Water: Analyzing the Business Model of Hydrologic Social Enterprise in Cambodia. St.Gallen: University of St.Gallen URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018] PDFThis guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector.
CATLEY, A. BURNS, J. ABEBE, D. SUJI, O. (2008): Participatory Impact Assessment. A Guide for Practitioners. Tufts University URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]Tom Wright describes in his article what the 6 important steps are to implement a successfully defined strategy and what aspects are key in managing a small- or medium-size business.
WRIGHT, T. (2016): The Definitive 6-Step Guide to Strategy Implementation. URL [Accessed: 18.04.2018]