Understanding the problem

Demand
This item focuses on locating areas of Africa which are most in need of atmospheric water generators. This means using public data provided by other organisations as well as information provided by partner organizations and contacts in similar NGOs.

Potential
This is a largely economic factor:
- Regions must have the lowest level of corruption
- A high level of economic development 

Security
This entails ensuring that the region is not war-prone but also that it is not dangerous due to local ethnic or religious tensions. It is important that Aquavera finds areas where other, more mainstream solutions are either not possible or not optimal

Implications:

- Taking a traditional approach to identifying at-risk areas
- Talking to similar water NGOs to identify regions where they cannot assist but where Aquavera can. 

For example, Northern and Southern Rwanda, Northern Ghana and most of Senegal are high risk areas.















































The least obvious but perhaps the most important; political and economic security is central to our projects being carried out successfully. It relies on having a great understanding of political and environmental risks through data and local knowledge.

Implications:
- Making use of data and expertise from other organisations to determine lowest risk areas.
- Once potential regions are narrowed down, we conduct field visits to identify local community partners.

For example, Rwanda, Ghana and Senegal have some of the lowest political and security risks in the continent.

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Aquavera's projects will be chosen to optimise the benefits of our approach. Below are a few of the implications we focus on:

Implications:

- Finding regions that can most benefit from air-to-water generators in the short and medium term due to their strong economic pre-condition.​
- Helping an area where we can have the most direct impact and change the most lives (for example, by co-locating at a hospital, school or refugee camp).​
-We ensure that the authorities are supportive, while also maintaining our independence.
- We find areas with high humidity that allow for the optimum functioning of our AWGs.




















Prior to starting any project, we complete a 'Local Viability Checklist' which asks the following:

1) Economic Viability: we conduct due diligence to ensure that there is no cheaper option available or way of using traditional methods
2) Reliable Organisation and Governance Structure: we ensure to partner only with established organisations, both in the air-to-water manufacturers we select and our local partners.
3) Technical Knowledge and Accessibility: before starting any project, we ensure to cover all questions, including the Calculated Aggregate Demand for the number of L needed per person
4) Local Demand: we always ensure to collaborate with the local community before any project ensuring a local cultural openness to the project. For this, we must ensure that the local community and our local partner has the capacity, ability and desire to manage the systems.