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SWP Youth Water Challenge �Winner ceremony 2023

27 October 2023

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Ceremony programme

Introduction to the Water Challenge
2022 Winners‘ „Espresso Presentations“
Generations‘ Mingling – exchange between 2023 and 2022 participants and mentors
Announcement of the 2023 Winners
Closing and outlook for 2024

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About SWP Youth

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Year	Proposals Submitted	Proposals Awarded	Sponsoring amount in CHF
2020	10	4	2400 (SWP funds)
2021	12	10	12500
2022	21	7	18500
2023	18	6	9500

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(IN 3 MINUTES!)

Espresso presentation by winners of Water Challenge 2022

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Winners of Water Challenge 2022

Waterwomen

Empowering women as young water leaders through capacity building and training of female water professionals in Bangladesh

Team: Samia Anwar Rafa and Nowrin Mow

Mentor: Marisa Ruoss

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Thank you!

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Winners of Water Challenge 2022

Openversum

Water filters as a business-in-a-box, to deliver safe drinking water for all in Ecuador

Team: Julián Salazar, Laura Stocco, Lorenzo Donadio, & Olivier Gröninger

Mentor: Tratschin, Risch

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Thank you!

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Winners of Water Challenge 2022

SODIS

Bringing clean and safe water through solar water disinfection (SODIS) to a school in Kenya.

Team: Esther Nyanchoka

Mentor: Matthias Saladin

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Thank you!

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Winners of Water Challenge 2022

Ekyooto for Water

Advocating and raising awareness on water management through community-led conversations in Uganda

Team: Pamella Kyohairwe, Patra Namara, Franklin Tumuhairwe, Patience Tumusiime & Mary Kemigisa

Mentor: Quentin Parent

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EKYOOTO FOR WATER BY LOTUS FLOWER - UGANDA

IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH IN BUSIRIBA SUB COUNTY, KYAKARAFA TOWNCOUNCIL, 1 & 2 VILLAGES, KAMWENGE DISTRICT A HIGHLY WATER STRESS DISTRICT.

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KEY FINDINGS AND SOLUTIONS

A snap shot study was done in kyakarafa town council, 1 & 2 villages in Busiriba subcounty a highly water stressed area that hosts over 150 households. Of the 4 protected water sources only 1 is functional and yet dwindling.
The 3 none functional water sources were due to mechanical breakdown, planting of water draining tree species – eucalyptus tress and a one that stopped functioning after pouring pale yellow and sticky water 10 years ago.
The only functional water source was terribly dwindling and struggling to survive due to maintaince and sustainability challenges.
The community members resorted to using open dug wells that were also poorly maintained,

using a people centered approach, together with the water user committee members, community members, leaders, and district officials we held a series of ‘Ekyooto’ around these water sources where we discussed the maintaince challenges, emphasized the urgent need to sustainably use the water sources and practically participated in cleaning the dwindling water source.
We held a water user committee meeting of all water user committee members emphasizing the need to conserve, protect and use the existing water sources sustainably.
we designed a water conservation toolkit clearly indicating the communally identified challenges, agreed upon solutions and actions to improve water and sanitation in Busiriba sub county.
We supported the community in functionalizing the water source that required mechanical attention. The water source that had dried due to eucalyptus trees is now functional since we advised the community members remove the trees.

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EKYOOTO FOR WATER IN PICTURES

EKYOOTO WITH KYAKARAFA WATER USER COMMITTEE MEMBERS

THE ONLY FUNCTIONAL WATER SOURCE AT THE TIME

THE SAME WATER SOURCE AFTER EKYOOTO INTERVENTION

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Thank you!

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Winners of Water Challenge 2022

She Shelters

A menstrual hygiene management (MHM) project for young girls in school of Sierra Leone

Team: Ruben Chung

Mentor: Karla Schlie

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Thank you!

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Winners of Water Challenge 2022

Water Lovers

Clean drinking water through water quality assessment and hand-pump installation for people of Ravi, Pakistan

Team: Nuzhat Wasif Bashir Babar

Mentor: Dorothee Spuhler

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�Sponsored By: Swiss Water Partnership (SWP)� #WaterLovers.�Implemented by: Pakistan Youth Parliament for Water (PYPW)�Project Location: Chack Mubarakwala, Muza Thatha Baig, Tehsil & Post office Tandlianwala, District Faisalabad-Punjab Pakistan�Team Leader: Mrs. Nuzhat Bashir Babar (General Secretary of PYPW)

Clean Drinking Water for People of Ravi� Youth Water Challenge 2022

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Clean Drinking Water for People of Ravi

Situational CHALLENGE: The local community was facing a terrible situation regarding the water quality. This village is based on the bank of river Ravi which was highly contaminated with industrial and municipal wastewater and also solid waste. People had been facing severe kinds of waterborne diseases which in some cases led to their death. People of this community were much marginalized, and their socioeconomic profile was also very low. The basic source of income is agriculture & and livestock.

The village has 450 households with approximately 2800/3000 beneficiaries including children, women, men, marginalized, and youth. After the implementation of this project, we shall try to scale up/ replicate the same project in other nearby communities. However, after the modification in the project activities with the consultation of the mentor and SWP, It was decided to install a deep handpump in the village to ensure access to safe drinking water for the local communities.

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Mrs. Nuzhat and her team developed her team, kicked off the project in the local community, and conducted community meetings.
Focus Group Discussion including youth, women and religious leaders, and senior citizens about the importance of clean water, water conservation, and health impacts.
Menstruation Hygiene Management (MHM) sessions.
Establishment of the Local Village WOMEN Water User Committee, Youth water leaders, and senior citizen committees
The identification, verification, and finalization point of installation of the Handpump by the consent and collective consensus of the local community.
The local community landowner is willing to provide a piece of land for the installation of this hand pump on the corner of the village, which is equal in distance, reachable, accessible, affordable, and acceptable to all the community members.
Installation of the 120 feet depth handpump for the provision of safe drinking water to the local community.

Project Activities

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WATER LOVERS Project Activities

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Thank you!

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Winners of Water Challenge 2022

BRIXSAN

Organic product to accelerate faecal decomposition and elimination of odours to improve rural sanitation in Peru

Team: West Fuller Cruzado Perez & Hugo Javier Cotrina Mendoza

Mentor: Reto Wey

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Thank you!

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Knowledge and Experience Sharing

Youth members and other attendees join a room for a project and topic of interest and have the opportunity to ask questions and hear the experiences of last year’s teams!

2022 winners share their experiences, best practices, digital working tools, working methods

How do you ensure sustainability of the project after support from SWP is over?
How did you grow and learn from this experience, what were your challenges & how did you overcome them?
How did you benefit from the mentorship process?

2022

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Knowledge and Experience Sharing

Room 4: Water supply infrastructure
Water lovers Ravi
Openversum

Room 1: WASH in School/ Sanitations
SODIS
BRIXSAN

Room 2: Awareness raising
Ekyooto for Water

Room 3: Empowerment, training, capacity building
Water Women

Delphine

Lena

Esther

Johnmark

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Introducing

Winners of Water Challenge

2023

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17 July

From challenge to solution. Design your solution together

and receive guidance in the process. Submit team names and project title.

13 Aug

Submit your

Proposal to SWP

We will send you a template after your submission on 12th July

Oct 2023 Oct 2024

Start your project supported with seed funding & mentorship

from SWP organisation

30 June

Co-creation workshop. Share your ideas and find an inspiring team to join you on a mission of solving a water challenge.

18 June

Call for young context experts, WASH practitioners and water enthusiasts to apply for co-creation workshop.

SWP Youth

Water Challenge 2023

21 July, 4&11 August:

Coaching Sessions by SWP Coordinators: You will receive guidance on how to work on your project proposals and can ask your questions.

Present your results and make your project fly !

Timeline

It’s now been more than five month that the participants of the 2023 Water Challenge have been meeting and crafting their projects. In june we gathered online, where the participants brainstormed on how communities lacking safe access to safe water can be empowered and supported. The teams created and started working on their ideas, at times calling across the globe, to develop creative solutions together as international teams. The Youth Committee provided support with two inputs, only on systems thinking and one on how to make a good project application. From roughly 50 participants, we received 18 projects. Thank you very very much to all of you who have submitted a project. We are aware of the work and effort this requires, hence I would like to emphasize that no matter if your project uis under the winners of today or not; be proud of yourself and keep going!

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Winners of Water Challenge 2023

WASH and Climate Innovation Hub

Burundi

The Project aims to teach local economically challenged women how to make ceramic water filters and promote their use to make life-saving drinking water available for every household in Mbaza-Miduha locality, a marginalized community located in Rugombo Commune in North-Western Burundi.

Team:

Godiolla Akimana

Eric Niyikiza

Zbeda Gentille Nishimwe

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Winners of Water Challenge 2023

Power of Valves

Cabo Verde

Short movie as a popular science reaching out to civil society to raise awareness on the problem of nuanced service level of water provisioning in Cabo Verde and in developing countries.

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Team:

Helen Barbosa,

Linda Lilienfield,

Domingos Barros

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Winners of Water Challenge 2023

Drip Drop Saver

Zambia

Installation of Rain Barrels with filter system, to serve toilets and menstruation management at Chakunkula combined school, peri-urban Lusaka

Team:

LILIA MPOSHA

ANJALI BIJUKCHHE

MUHAMMAD ABDUL SULAIMAN

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Winners of Water Challenge 2023

Smallholders‘ adaptation to water scarcity

Argentina

This project aims at optimizing irrigation for small scale grape producers in water scarce areas through inclusive adaptation measures and a low-cost solution at the farm-level.

Team: Marc Monnet

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Winners of Water Challenge 2023

Mandomaji

Kenya

Build rain harvesting tanks and pit latrines using a compressed earth technique for bricks, which allows women to build structures without masonry expertise.

�Team: Elizabeth Ntukai

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Winners of Water Challenge 2023

Feutap Rainwater Project

Cameroon

Rainwater harvest solution and establishment of storage facilities. Complemented with awareness campaigns to educate the community on rainwater harvesting.

Team:

Tebogo Vivian Siphambe

Abdurrahman Abdulkareem Aliyu

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Plenum

2023

What are your expectations from this year's challenge?
Do you have questions for the previous winners or the SWP Management team?

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We will send out the Winner 2023 Terms of Reference in the coming weeks and match you with mentors.

Looking for mentors: please contact us: youth@swisswaterparntership.ch

For those who have not made it to the top 6, we highly encourage you to continue developing your ideas and re-submit next year to the 2024 Water Challenge.

SWP Youth‘s 5th Water Challenge, 2024!!

Timeline will be announced early next year!

New website will be launched soon, until then stay in touch by following us on social media

What next?

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Concluding Remarks

We thank you for your participation!