Designing an organization for a Water-positive society

1. UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO WORLD’S
MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE

2. ONE DROP.ORG
• International non-profit
organization, created by Cirque
du Soleil in 2007. Founded by
Guy Laliberte
• Approaches -
 Community Water Center
 Water Mural
 Community Well
 School Garden
 Workshops
 Energy Efficient Stove
 Family Garden and FruitTrees
 Markets Micro-loans

3. ONE DROP’S STRATEGY
 Burkina Faso :Theatre show and involvement of female members
 Guatemala : Children’s Book awareness program
 El Salvador : Micro loan finance model and involvement of youth
 Sheohar, India : multi-disciplinary touring showand school base workshop
 Odisha, India : Cyco-Theatre and involvement of youth in film making
 Nicaragua : built water reservoir
 Haiti : Solar energy community approach

4. M-PAANI
• Designs and implements mobile-based loyalty programs that help communities living at the bottom of the
pyramid get the most out of their spend
• Users of the platform earn points for their mobile phone usage or expenditure on select FMCG products
that can be monetized for products and services – such as safe water, education, energy and healthcare –
which will improve their lives

5. FOUNDED BY AKANKSHA HAZARI
• Won the Hult Prize 2011
• Top 10 upcoming female social
entrepreneurs
• Diverse experience from the
boardrooms of blue-chip firms
to the field, living and working
in Palestine and rural India.

6. WATER.ORG
 Provides drinking water and
sanitation assistance.
 A result of merger of H2O
Africa and founded by Matt
Damon and WaterPartners,
an American NGO

7. APPROACH
 Water.org forms partnerships with local organisations in
countries, and it works in tandem with them.
 Follows bottom up approach and involves the community at all
stages
 Chooses technology specifically suited to help solving the
communities problem.
 Supplementing and integrating all initiatives with providing
health and sanitation education.

8. HOW WATER CREDIT IS MAKING AN
IMPACT

9. CHARITY:WATER –WATER AS A CATALYST
 Charity: Water focuses on life’s most
basic need – Water.
 But to significantly cut down disease
rates in the developing world, water is
just the first step.
 Wherever charity: water builds a
freshwater well, sanitation training is
also required.
 Simple hand washing stations made
with readily available materials is
promoted in some communities.

11.  A non-profit research organization with headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka
 IWMI enjoys greater national and international visibility, as water is high on the world
development agenda.
 A modern and robust institute that has adapted to the needs of the 21st century through
organizational transformation
 It focuses on:
 Water availability and access
 How water is used and how it can be used more productively
 Water quality
 How societies govern their water resources
INTERNATIONAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
INSTITUTE (IWMI)

12. INITIATIVES
 IWMI launched the CGIAR Research Program onWater, Land and Ecosystems in
early 2012
 It advocated ‘Participatory Irrigation Management’ (PIM), which went on to
become the status quo for government and major lending agencies
 IWMI's work in Gujarat exemplifies how improving water management can have
an influence on peoples' livelihoods
 ResearchThemes -
 Revitalized Irrigation Systems
 Sustainable Agricultural Water Management
 Ecosystem Services
 Resource Recovery, Water Quality and Health

13. HOW CAN WE DO BETTER

14. IDENTIFYING GAP AREAS
 Lack of technological innovation and R&D in
water conservation
 Inefficient Government policies
 Lack of sustainable models- Lake Nicaragua
 Less amount of public participation and
involvement
 Enough awareness but lack of implementation.

15. WATER FOR ALL
INITIATIVES
Bridging local communities and access to water

16. OURVISION IS OUR IDENTITY
 It is letter W that stands for Water.
 The logo also signifies a waterfall that
denotes
access to pristine water, for now and
forever…
 It is symbolic to what we do and
what we stand for

17. OUR STRATEGY COMES FIRST AND
DEFINES OUR VERTICALS
ThinkTank
• Advocating the cause of water conservation and access to water a global level
• Lobbying with and helpingGovernment agencies formulate and practice sustainable policies on water
Strategic Consulting
• Helping corporations conserve and become water positive organizations
• Advising large scale projects on how to optimize environmental impact and counter sustainability
challenges
Artivism ( Activism by Art )
• Using social arts to mobilize the community actors at grassroots level to act upon water challenges
they face
• Building awareness on best practices that the BoP can adapt to conserve

18. WE LEAD BY EXAMPLE
ThinkTank –
Reaches out to and
influences global
audiences and
policy leaders.
Strategic
Consulting –
Works with
corporate decision
makers to make an
impact
Artivism –
Engages the local
community by way
of street theatre,
films and music to
create awareness.
Policy Level Community LevelExecutive Level

19. AND OUR STRUCTURE SUPPORTS US…
Executive
Council Led by
the Chair-person
Practice Leader-
ThinkTank
Manager, Public
Policy and Govt
Affairs
Chief Strategist,
PR and Political
Affairs
Practice Leader -
Strategic
Consulting
Senior
Professor, XSoS
- XUB
Senior
Consultant(s)
Chief Resident
Artist - Artivism
Program
Manager(s)
Manager -
Human Capital
Shared Services
Center
HR and Admin
Payroll,
Accounts and
Compliance

20. TECHNOLOGY AS AN ENABLER
 Rain water harvesting
 Seawater greenhouse and Co-generation
 Drone Irrigation
 Collaboration on the Cloud
 Social Media and Digital PR

21. Abhishek • Arisha • Ananya • Avijit • Chirag
Nandini • Rahul • Sampad
Déjà vu
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