Fighting poverty
in the Philippines
Providing sustainable and economically viable access to drinking water while developing new revenue-generating activities in the Philippines
Location of the mission
Philippines, Gawad Kalinga communities
Date of the project
January 2020 – December 2024
Beneficiaries
Pilot phase:
2,000 people
22 jobs created
Deployment phase:
570,000 people
4,500 jobs created
Partners
Gawad Kalinga
Context and issues
Amongst the 3000 Gawad Kalinga communities in the Philippines, 1,965 villages were listed as having no safe, permanent access to drinking water.
Drinking water for fighting poverty covers two main goals:
Meeting the basic needs of the poorest by setting up a universal drinking water service accessible to all
Stimulating job creation in villages by developing a new economic, social and solidarity-based entity centred on the management of drinking water
The pilot phase consists of modelling, in partnership with local authorities, the technical, social and economic operation of the access to drinking water, which will be self-managed by the communities. The pilot focuses on 7 communities from the Rizal and Bulcan provinces on the Luzon Island. Beyond equipment installation, InovaYa provides an important training programme for the local future managers, with a transfer of skills ranging from on-site system assembly to the management of distribution.
Project history
The intervention
In the pilot phase, the access to drinking water of the 7 communities will be improved by the installation of 20 aYa safety units and an unYo purification unit.
144H of technical training are planned for 8 people, the future technical managers of the Drinking water service.
A full training cycle in social entrepreneurship will be provided to 14 people, future managers of the Drinking water service, by the School of Experiential and Entrepreneurial Development.
March 2019
Exploratory mission
Exploratory mission conducted by 3 InovaYa engineers answering Gawad Kalinga’s invitation. A field investigation was conducted in 7 locations selected by GK for their representativeness of the existing situations in the other 1,958 GK villages. It concerns 7 locations of the pilot phase. The report of the exploratory mission served as a base for the technical scaling and the social-economic definition of the project.
November 2021
Training in entrepreneurship
Assembly and training
Within the framework of the training cycle provided by the Gawad Kalinga School of Experiential and Entrepreneurial Development, 14 young Filipinos will be trained for forming the first team of managers for the service.
Technical assistance programme provided by an InovaYa technician: training and assembly for 15 days, transfer of skills to 8 young Filipinos
December 2021
1st installation and training programme
Raising awareness on WASH issues
Technical assistance programme provided by an InovaYa technician at the first 4 locations: training, installation and commissioning over 20 days, transfer of skills to 8 young Filipinos.
Workshop for raising awareness on water, hygiene and sanitation amongst the population.
JANUARY 2022
2nd installation and training
Raising awareness on WASH issues
Second step dedicated to on-site installations and training in the last 3 location of the pilot-project.
April 2022
Assessment report
The pilot serves as demonstration for the project’s capacity to safely supply drinking water, at an affordable price, while generating new sources of revenue within communities. Its goal is to create, test and optimise the conditions of its acceptance in order to extend it to the other 1,958 communities by 2024. The project’s analysis rest on a monitoring-assessment framework which covers all project phases. The assessment report will be drafted and shared with the local authorities.
May 2022
Scaling
From May 2022 to December 2024, the project will enter its deployment phase in another 1,958 Gawad Kalinga communities. Two VIEs (French international interns in a company) and an InovaYa technician will be sent on-site for monitoring and assisting the deployment.
About the association
Gawad Kalinga Association
The non-governmental organisation Gawad Kalinga has the goal of eradicating poverty for 5 million Filipino families by 2024 by building solidarity-based, self-sustaining village communities. There are currently 3,000 Gawad Kalinga communities in the Philippines and a social business incubator platform (the first one in South-East Asia).
After a first step which allowed over 1 million families to escape poverty, a second step dedicated to promoting social innovation and to training young people in social entrepreneurship as a lever of inclusive economy, GK currently focuses its actions on the creation of large-scale local economic entities for reducing poverty and allowing a mid-class to emerge within communities.
About the association
Gawad Kalinga Association
The non-governmental organisation Gawad Kalinga has the goal of eradicating poverty for 5 million Filipino families by 2024 by building solidarity-based, self-sustaining village communities. There are currently 3,000 Gawad Kalinga communities in the Philippines and a social business incubator platform (the first one in South-East Asia).
After a first step which allowed over 1 million families to escape poverty, a second step dedicated to promoting social innovation and to training young people in social entrepreneurship as a lever of inclusive economy, GK currently focuses its actions on the creation of large-scale local economic entities for reducing poverty and allowing a mid-class to emerge within communities.
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