Uptime designs and delivers results-based funding to keep drinking water flowing for millions of rural people globally.
The Uptime Catalyst Facility (UCF) is a registered UK charity that pools and disburses results-based grant funding to contracted rural water service providers. Contracts between the UCF and service providers are administered by Uptime Global, an affiliated non-profit social enterprise. The UCF is funded by external partners who share a common vision of ensuring safe drinking water services for rural people in developing countries.
Uptime Global and the UCF are pioneering the design, implementation and evaluation of novel approaches for the sustainable funding of maintained rural water services. They take an empirical, data-intensive approach to assessing the performance of service providers based in Africa, Asia and Latin America, often operating in very challenging conditions. We believe that results-based funding is the most efficient, robust and scalable approach for delivering resilient water services.
The Uptime Catalyst Facility currently contracts 17 service providers across 14 countries, supporting an estimated 5 million rural water users. Full results are available on Uptime’s Global Dashboard: Uptime (uptimewatUer.com)