LSHTM-2025-082 - Safe Water Projects

SCIF has an ongoing requirement for support in developing, delivering and monitoring safe water projects in East Africa. Safe Water Projects - To provide safe clean water to communities bringing defunct boreholes back into use within an ongoing management regime involving local stakeholders, developing production wells, rainwater harvesting, water filtration systems, water catchment protection and other related nature-based climate mitigation and adaptation measures. In addition, providing education and increasing awareness of how best to use and maintain the water sources, to drive hygiene and sanitation behavioral change in the local communities, with young people and in schools. This includes capacity building and providing socio-economic opportunities for communities and other beneficiaries of the SCIF infrastructure. All projects carried out must be scoped and co-created through on-going community engagement and effective outreach activities (e.g. Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) promotion, behavioral change campaigns, community training and mobilization). The projects will be undertaken in the East Africa block i.e. Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia. The Contract will commence in January 2026 and run for four years. The estimated spend will be £3 Million over the life of the contract but projects are not confirmed yet and will depend on funding, local partnerships and SCIF strategy.

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85322000-2  Community action programme
65100000-4  Water distribution and related services
65111000-4  Drinking-water distribution
45262220-9  Water-well drilling