Cambodia Water Outcomes Partnership

Creating access to clean safe piped water in Cambodia by supporting private water operators to expand

  • The Stone Family Foundation

  • iSEA

  • Bank for Investment & Development of Cambodia (BIDC)

  • Location

    Cambodia

  • Launch

    Feb 2024

  • Area

    Health, Wellbeing & Independence

Collaborators & funding partners

  • The Stone Family Foundation

  • Bank for Investment & Development of Cambodia (BIDC)

Delivery Partners

  • iSEA (Innovation, Services, Engineering & Advisory)

  • Private Water Operators in Cambodia

Team

Collaborators & funding partners

  • The Stone Family Foundation

  • Bank for Investment & Development of Cambodia (BIDC)

Delivery Partners

  • iSEA (Innovation, Services, Engineering & Advisory)

  • Private Water Operators in Cambodia

  • Mila Lukic

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    Mila founded and leads Bridges Outcomes Partnerships (BOP). At BOP, we work to radically improve human services and environmental initiatives to improve outcomes for people and value for society. Programmes BOP supports are dedicated to empowering people across the world to improve their lives, in areas ranging from education and wellbeing to housing, child protection, employment and environmental protection. Mila is on boards of Positive Families Partnership, Stronger Families, Forward, North East Lincolnshire Thrive, Ways to Wellness, Education Outcomes Partnerships, along with other family, employment, and refugee support focused programmes.

    Mila is also a Trustee for Clore Social Leadership, organisation dedicated to providing social leaders with world class leadership development.

    Prior to Bridges, Mila’s career spanned public, private, and third sector. Mila helped create and run Education Generation, a crowdsourcing social enterprise focused on enabling young leaders in low-and middle-income countries to participate in some of the world’s most forward-thinking education programmes.

  • Amit Shah

    Executive Director

    Amit, Executive Director at Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, has been working with Bridges for the last 3 years with a focus on our work in low- and middle-income countries. During this time, Amit has supported the creation of Outcomes Partnerships related to:

    • Helping families stay together through family therapy in the UK
    • Improving quality of education provision in West Africa and South Asia
    • Plastics waste recycling in West Africa
    • Access to clean water in Southeast Asia
    • Employment opportunities in Turkey

    Prior to joining Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, Amit worked for Social Finance where he created some of the most innovative social impact bonds in the UK. Amit spent his early career in banking and consulting, after which he ran a consulting organisation and charity focused on innovation in education.

    Amit holds a Bachelor of Science from Nottingham University in the UK.

Overview

Currently, only an estimated 30% of the population of Cambodia has access to clean piped water.

Cambodia has over 450 private water operators (PWOs) who are granted fixed-term monopoly licenses by the government. These innovative, often family-run businesses, supply 50% of household piped water across Cambodia. However, PWOs are often unable to serve a significant proportion of households within their license area, particularly in rural and semi-rural areas due to financing limitations.

BOP has partnered with Stone Family Foundation, iSEA and the Bank for Investment and Development of Cambodia (BIDC) to provide accessible finance for PWOs to invest in water infrastructure to enable them to reach thousands of households which don’t have access to clean and safe piped water today.

Improving access to clean, safe water will have significant health, social and economic benefits for Cambodian communities.

Outcomes

This programme is still in its early stages of delivery; as it progresses, we will update this page with outcomes achieved. Stay tuned!

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