1001fontaines at the Skoll World Forum
Building sustainable solutions for disadvantaged communities
1001fontaines was thus represented by Amandine Muret, the organization’s Chief Development Officer, who had the honor of co-hosting a session with Sasha Kramer, founder of the NGO SOIL, a specialist in sanitation in Haiti, and Tracey Keatman, coordinator of the “WASH Funders” group.
Together, they demonstrated the central role of social entrepreneurship in developing sustainable services. Amandine Muret presented 1001fontaines’ innovative approach to bringing safe drinking water to disadvantaged communities through sustainable models. She also emphasized the necessity to enhance local populations’ capacities in order to deploy our model on a large scale.
Leveraging the private sector’s assets to drive impact
Like SOIL, 1001fontaines places consumer expectations at the heart of its work. Delivering high-quality services that truly respond to people’s needs and desires is central to fostering long-term adoption of our bottled water solutions. Drawing on private-sector principles, this approach is backed by a detailed understanding of operational performance and impact measurement, with consumer satisfaction and behavior change as key indicators of success.
Our projects in Madagascar and Cambodia are concrete demonstrations of this approach’s success: sales of safe drinking water are now sufficient to cover all operating costs, an essential condition for each of our projects.
