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GSMA Mobile for Development Utilities

Mobile for Development Utilities

Mission Opportunity

To unlock commercially sustainable business models that leverage mobile to deliver affordable and improved energy, water and sanitation services in emerging markets.

This initiative is currently funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Scaling Off-Grid Energy Grand Challenge for Development and supported by the GSMA and its members.

In emerging markets, close to one billion people live without electricity, 2.1 billion people lack access to safely managed water and 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation services, …..while mobile connectivity and handsets are increasingly ubiquitous.

M4D Utilities Activities

Innovation Fund Knowledge Sharing

50+ projects supported since 2013 across Water, Sanitation and Energy, spanning 3 continents

Funding: £150,000 - £300,000 Mobile-focused mentoring Mobile Operator Partnership support Selected grantees receive:

Water & Sanitation Grants

14 Water Grantees 6 Sanitation Grantees

www.gsma.com/m4duinsights Newly released

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How Digital Solutions Support Water and Sanitation

Pay-as-you-go, or prepaid services = affordability for customers; efficient revenue collection for service providers Water Point/System Monitoring = visibility and accountability for service reliability, quality Digitisation of operations = optimisation of processes like meter reading, customer communication Mapping and connecting the sanitation value chain = efficiency and transparency across stakeholders Mobile Money Machine to Machine/IoT GSM Services (Voice SMS Data)