Our Mission:

Keeping water flowing.

Uptime Global designs and implements results-based funding for reliable and safe rural drinking water services.

Working with professional service providers, governments and development banks, we link funding to independently verified performance, helping maintain existing water infrastructure and scale sustainable drinking water services.

Our ambition is to enable reliable drinking water services for 100 million rural people by 2030.

  
140K

        Waterpoints under contract
      
7M

        Rural water users benefiting
      
$10M

        Results-based disbursements
      
16

        Countries with active programmes
      
3

        Active government pilots

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Country programmes

Uptime works across different contexts, from direct contracts with professional service providers to government partnerships. These programmes show how results-based funding can support reliable and safe drinking water, and how the model can scale.

Zambia | SafeManzi

Since 2024, SafeManzi has supported results-based contracts for drinking water services in rural schools and healthcare facilities in Mumbwa District. The programme covers 101 institutions, with the pilot achieving over 95% of its reliability and water safety targets.

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Bangladesh | SafePani

Since 2025, Uptime has worked with HYSAWA and the Government of Bangladesh to support drinking water services in 1,174 schools and public facilities in Khulna. The Government and Uptime each contribute 50% of results-based payments, linked to independently verified service delivery.

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november 2022

"We have also been an avid funder and vocal promoter of the Uptime initiative, which we believe is fundamentally changing the debate on rural water services… Supporting such innovations can have far-reaching impacts that improve the way basic services are delivered and funded"

Louis Boorstin, Osprey Foundation / Stanford Social Innovation Review