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Rajesh Shah rajesh@peerwater May 2013

How To Deliver and Sustain 600,000 Small-Scale Projects Providing Sanitation and Water to 600,000,000 Indians Step 1: Build World-Class Platform Step 2: Decentralize, Crowdsource , & Peer Review Step 3: Use SMS. Rajesh Shah rajesh@peerwater.org May 2013. The Challenge.

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Rajesh Shah rajesh@peerwater May 2013

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  1. How To Deliver and Sustain600,000 Small-Scale ProjectsProviding Sanitation and Water to600,000,000 IndiansStep 1: Build World-Class PlatformStep 2: Decentralize, Crowdsource, & Peer ReviewStep 3: Use SMS Rajesh Shah rajesh@peerwater.org May 2013

  2. The Challenge Solicit, Select, Manage, and Verify 200,000 small-scale local projects annually To reach 1,000,000,000 people without safe water and 2,600,000,000 people without a toilet “Dare to be naive”–Buckminster Fuller

  3. The Water Sector Is A Hierarchical Pyramid Today Implementers Funders Beneficiaries Intermediaries • Top-down approach has not shown impact despite having technical solutions • Small projects tailored to local context lack visibility and oversight • Accountability lost in many expensive layers of bureaucracy • Lack of collaboration, no reporting of failures, and no shared learning • Bottom-up approach needs empowerment at BoP • NOT SCALABLE!

  4. The Water Sector Rearranged As The Four Wings Of A Butterfly Funders Fragmented Beneficiaries Invisible Information Flow Slow Hidden Financial Flow Peripheral Opaque Intermediaries + Products/Services Competitive Regional Implementers Experience Not Used There is no heart and no brainAll vital flows are bi-lateral and outside – no muscle either!

  5. The Water Sector Butterfly Containing A New Central Exchange Public Engaged Funders Networked Beneficiaries Participate P W X Information Flow Instantaneous Universally Accessible Financial Flow Traceable Clear Intermediaries + Products/Services Collaborate Regional Implementers Share and Learn Major step in reaching billions and getting reached by them is to use SMS

  6. SMS Is The Best Technology For Communicating With Field Staff (No Computer, No Internet, No 3G) Example 1: Shohratgarh, UP Field Staff Sends SMS: “construction of 4thToilet will be startdtomarrow at Sapna's house.” PWX Responds with acknowledgement.

  7. Our Innovation Is To Integrate SMS Notes Elegantly Into The Platform http://peerwater.org/en/projects/1649#verification PWX Attaches SMS note to project report in nice historical format

  8. Want To Know How Projects Are Performing Along Specific Parameters? Tired of beautiful photos of anonymous people in unknown locations? Example 2: N. 24 Parganas,West Bengal Field Staff Conducts education about arsenic in water Field Staff Sends SMS about number of people using and for what purposes Field Staff Notes water quality and types of use

  9. Our Members Use SMS To Capture Metrics Transparently For The Public Good http://peerwater.org/en/projects/790#verification • PWX SMS Reporting • Allows for tracking specific metrics: • # of families • # of users • What types of use? • Chlorine sold

  10. PWX Maps Every Project Openly:Any Person Can View Results And Report Toohttp://peerwater.org/en/map/show/project/511/1368 also http://peerwater.org/en/map Example 3: Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu • PWX SMS Reporting • Allows for tracking specific metrics: • # of families • # of users • What types of use? • Chlorine sold

  11. Field Staff Can Communicate In Their Languagehttp://peerwater.org/en/projects/511#verification Example 3: Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu • Field Staff • Do not expect them to be: • English speaking • as tech savvy as today’s teenagers • project management gurus PWX SMS Reporting Will store data in original form, making it easy for next staff to learn and pickup.

  12. PWX SMS Reporting Can Now Track Public Toilet Usage and Revenues • Toilet Operator • Trained to send SMS everyday on: • # of male users • # of female users • Revenue collected Example 4: Demo Project,Maharashtra Members of M4G and mBillionth Jury: Please Try!

  13. PWX Metrix Can Track Public Toilet Usage And Revenues http://demo.peerwater.org/en/projects/1680#sites/2636/site_metrics PWX MetriX Extracts data from SMS Graphs it Visible in Real-time Max threshold highlighted Min threshold highlighted Absence of data highlighted Available for download.

  14. Now Success Is Within Our Grasp PWX is ready to handle funds and manage projects for any agency. We seek: • Implementers who want to manage their projects on PWX • Funders who want to collaborate and fund through PWX • Volunteers who can report on projects near them or their travels • Investors to make this platform the enabler for solving the water crisis facing a fifth of humanity and a sanitation crisis facing nearly half of humanity “Are we to decide the importance of issues by asking how fashionable or glamorous they are? Or by asking how seriously they affect how many?”– Nelson Mandela

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