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Budget Narrative:
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This budget represents the additional costs of our Safe Water scoping work in the areas described in the proposal. We already have the following funds available for Safe Water scoping activities, which will be used as originally planned. The activities covered by these existing funds have not been included in the attached budget:

• Accelerator grant ($3.1M): Safe Water is one of several program areas we are exploring through the Accelerator grant, and the work being proposed here is similar in kind to that of the Accelerator grant. However, the Safe Water opportunities we are identifying are far greater than we’d initially planned for and will require more dedicated resources to fully explore them. We plan to fully spend the budget earmarked for Safe Water activities in the Accelerator grant, and the budget requested here is for additional costs.

• DSW grant ($775K balance at 12/31/2022): This grant included a budget line to support new country scoping and expansion efforts for our current interventions (i.e. DSW and ILC). The budget in this grant was intended to support the team through the end of 2023, including very light field activities. It is now clear that there is a need for more key activities than originally envisaged, and we will need additional budget and a longer timeline to properly explore these opportunities.

Budget drivers: The budget is largely driven by staff costs (31%) and field activities (45%), largely consisting of pilots, infrastructure assessments, and surveys. We expect staffing to be somewhat fungible, with bandwidth shifting as some areas of work become more promising and others less so. The staffing includes people across key crosscutting functions (MLE, CE, Fin/Ops, Mgt).

Additional Notes:
• The budget is highly notional and will evolve as we hone in on the most promising opportunities.
• The budget is heavily assumption-driven, using standardized costs for simplicity.
• The budget generally models 3 years of steady-state operations. Due to start-up time and sequencing of workstreams, however, we expect this budget to actually cover a 3.5-4 year time period.
• Exceptions to the timelines described above: India work is budgeted for 2 years; and Expanding DSW/ILC to new countries is budgeted for 1.5 years.
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