From Projects to Platforms: Investing in Climate-Resilient WASH at Scale
How GrowthAid is Scaling Climate-Resilient WASH Through Investable Infrastructure
For over 20 years, GrowthAid has delivered water, sanitation, health, livelihoods, and climate-resilient development in underserved communities across West and east Africa. We are now deliberately evolving beyond traditional project delivery with a humanitarian lens to an asset-based approach with predictable cashflows capable of attracting blended and catalytic finance.
GrowthAid is building an investment-ready platform for climate-resilient WASH and livelihoods.
Why This Shift Matters:
Despite universal recognition of WASH as essential infrastructure, the sector remains structurally under-financed. Not because of weak demand, but because most delivery models are not designed for capital, risk management, or long-term performance.
GrowthAid is closing that gap: We originate, aggregate, and steward portfolios of small, climate-resilient WASH assets, transforming dispersed community systems into service-based infrastructure capable of attracting blended and catalytic finance.
What Makes the GrowthAid Platform Different
- Asset-based, not project-based
WASH systems are structured as long-term service assets with predictable cashflows (PAYG tariffs, service contracts, household contributions). - Designed for blended finance
Assets are aggregated into diversified portfolios, enabling concessional capital to de-risk early stages and crowd in follow-on private and institutional finance. - Climate-smart by design
Climate resilience is embedded at asset level—addressing drought, floods, salinity, and groundwater stress using climate intelligence and adaptive design. - Last-mile credibility, capital-market discipline
Two decades of community trust and public-sector partnerships combined with strong fiduciary systems, performance monitoring, and risk management. - Long-term stewardship
We remain accountable beyond grant cycles, ensuring service continuity, governance integrity, and asset performance over time.
- Asset-based, not project-based
Our Role in the Financing Ecosystem
GrowthAid acts as a trusted originating partner for donors, DFIs, and catalytic investors, absorbing early-stage complexity and last-mile risk so capital can flow with confidence.
We are not seeking perpetual grants.
We are building a scalable pathway that transforms WASH from a grant-constrained sector into a resilient, investable public-service asset class.
Partner With Us
We invite catalytic partners to co-design and capitalize this platform across West and East Africa.
Dr. Joe Lambongang
Chief Executive Officer/Country Director, Ghana, GrowthAid:
joelambongang@growthaid.org
Ruth Kuteesa
Country Director, GrowthAid Uganda
Augustus Osafo -Sampong
Regional Support Officer