Our Mission:
Keeping water flowing.
Uptime designs and delivers results-based funding to keep drinking water flowing for millions of rural people globally.
Linking funding to results at scale
Uptime connects funding to rural drinking water results with standardized and verifiable data across countries, contexts and infrastructure types.
Our Results
In 2020 we began piloting this standardized funding model through our UK charity affiliate, the Uptime Catalyst Facility. From 2020-2022 it disbursed over USD 1 million while growing from 4 to 7 African countries to support services for c. 1.5 million people at a cost of less than USD 1 per person per year.
We are now scaling this approach globally to support sustainable drinking water services at scale. With the support of innovative funders and best-in-class service providers, we are demonstrating how resources can link to drinking water results in a transparent, cost-effective and scalable way.
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november 2022
"We have also been an avid funder and vocal promoter of the Uptime initiative, which we believe is fundamentally changing the debate on rural water services… Supporting such innovations can have far-reaching impacts that improve the way basic services are delivered and funded"
Louis Boorstin, Osprey Foundation / Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Keep water flowing by supporting results-based contracts through the Uptime Catalyst Facility (UK charity 1192062)