Click through our modules below to get an idea of what we will be working on together with our supported enterprises throughout the programme duration.
Enterprise Diagnostics
Objectives:
- Identify Strength and Weaknesses of your business.
- Sharpen your understanding of success factors and KPIs for piped water systems.
- Outline priority areas to accelerate your business model.
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Field Assessments
Objectives:
- Enhance your understanding of key parameters of individual water systems from source to customer.
- Establish key data points, variable factors and bottlenecks of unit economics.
- Learn about key challenges and solutions in establishing viable (piped) water systems through peer exchanges.
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Technical Assistance
Objectives:
Cewas supports participants through TA services to
- Develop key financial models to determine performance targets and financing needs to establish replicable water systems.
- Establish standardized procedures and provide support based on participants’ individual needs.
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Business Development Projects
Objectives:
- Validate and improve key aspects of your upgrading/piped water model on the ground to generate evidence that you can achieve key targets and milestones with additional finance.
- Set the foundation to expand your services.
- Demonstrate your ability to deliver strategic added value with limited investments in a short period of time.
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The Business-in-a-Box programme provides small grants of up to $20,000 per participating enterprise for business development projects (BDPs). These projects are designed to develop and test a replicable model and standard procedures for entrepreneurs to upgrade rural water points and operate mini-grids as a social business model. This catalytic funding can be used to test new business approaches (e.g., pre-financing piped connections) or optimize operations (e.g., efficiency investments to reduce cost drivers and move towards unit profitability). These initiatives help increase the viability and/or impact of your enterprise. The goal is to use the funding to validate and improve your upgrading/piped water model as a basis to attract new impact funding or growth investments.
Throughout Module 4, we will support you in developing a proposal that clearly outlines how the catalytic funds will be used to further develop and test/pilot your upgrading/piped water model.
Peer Learning Academy
Objectives:
- Train analytical skills and a mindset to recognizing key challenges, define problem statements and engage external stakeholders to more effectively find solutions.
- Foster horizontal learning and mutual support between participants to solve operational challenges in managing and upgrading water systems and establishing piped water schemes.
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Investor Matchmaking
Objectives:
- Validate your financing need and develop a coherent investment strategy.
- Connect with potentially interested funders and investors.
- Prepare and deliver a convincing investor pitch.
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