GSMA Uniting Mobile Operators Worldwide
M4D Utilities Programme Overview Problem Mission In emerging markets, close to 1 billion people live To unlock commercially sustainable business without electricity, 2.1 billion people lack access models that leverage mobile to deliver affordable to safely managed water and 2.5 billion people and improved energy, water and sanitation do not have access to basic sanitation services. services in emerging markets. This initiative is currently funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Scaling Off-Grid Energy Grand Challenge for Development and supported by the GSMA and its members.
M4D Utilities Programme Activities Innovation Fund Knowledge Sharing and Convening 50+ projects supported between 2014 and 2019 across 3 verticals (Water, Sanitation and Energy) and 3 continents Selected grantees receive: Pre or Post-revenue Funding : Seed grants up to Mobile-centric £150,000 or Market Validation grants £300,000 Start-ups, MNOs or Utility Companies Mobile-focused mentoring and Socio-economic bespoke technical impact assistance Africa or Asia Pacific Opportunities to build partnerships with mobile 3 verticals: energy, operators water, sanitation
M4D Utilities Innovation Fund Grantees
M4D Utilities Programme Impact £9.4M of grant funding allocated to 53 projects between 2013 and 2019… 2.7M 40 £258M
M4D Utilities WASH Presnece What problems are we aiming to solve? 2.1 billion people lack access to safely managed water, 4.5 billion lack access to safely managed sanitation services There are serious challenges to achieving universal, safely-managed, sustainable service: 1. Ineffective billing/collections 2. High non-revenue water 3. Disconnected value chains with multiple stakeholders and limited visibility 4. High household connection costs 5. Low willingness to pay for poor service 6. Insufficient sectoral funding
M4D Utilities How Digital Solutions Support Water and Sanitation Service Providers Pay-as-you-go, or prepaid services = Mobile affordability for customers; efficient Money revenue collection for service providers Water Point/System Monitoring = visibility Machine to and accountability for service reliability, Machine/IoT quality Digitisation of operations = optimisation of processes like meter reading, customer communication GSM Services (Voice SMS Data) Mapping and connecting the sanitation value chain = efficiency and transparency across stakeholders
M4D Utilities Deep Dive: What are the benefits of adopting digital payments in WASH? Snapshot: The Mobile Money Ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa For water and sanitation service providers For mobile operators Digital payments reduce Increase in mobile money usage collection costs Expanding mobile money use Digital payments increase cases revenues and enable new business models Driving digital and financial literacy among potential Digital payments increase customer reach customers
M4D Utilities Panel Overview Mary Roach, Charles Yeboah, Innovation Dr. Najib B. Lukooya, Water and Grégoire Landel, COO, Loowatt Manager, Safe Water Network Sanitation, Kampala City Authority CEO, CityTaps *Check out our new report on digitization in the water sector* http://gsma.com/m4duinsights Ilana Cohen, Senior Market Engagement Director, GSMA
SMALL WATER ENTERPRISE IN GHANA HOUSEHOLD TREATMENT STATION STANDPIPES CONNECTIONS SAFE & CONVENIENT WATER INCLUSIVE PRICING
ONGOING OPTIMIZATIONS
Ensure the human right to water at home for the urban poor
SaaS Platform Mobile payment Water Utility Command & Metering Device
KAMPALA- Approach to Improving Citywide Sanitation service Delivery Capture & storage Transport Treatment Reuse
KAMPALA- Approach to Improving Citywide Sanitation service Delivery Mobile Enabled Model – for achieving Scale and Inclusion o Market Structuring - Demand - Supply o Capacity Building – Business Development o Regulation and Monitoring o Incentives for Inclusion, Quality and Efficiency, Achieving Scale
M4D Utilities Panel Overview Mary Roach, Charles Yeboah, Innovation Dr. Najib B. Lukooya, Water and Grégoire Landel, COO, Loowatt Manager, Safe Water Network Sanitation, Kampala City Authority CEO, CityTaps *Check out our new report on digitization in the water sector* http://gsma.com/m4duinsights Ilana Cohen, Senior Market Engagement Director, GSMA
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