The Blue Community Network is delighted to welcome a new partner in Africa. The organisation 4APioneer Ltd achieved the designation of a Blue Community.
4APioneer is the lead organization responsible for mobilising funding, coordinating implementation, and ensuring governance and reporting of the community owned Amani Kibera Water Project (tanks, solar pumping, filtration, kiosks), which is implemented in partnership with Amani Kibera as the community-based implementing partner in the informal Kibera settlement, where more than 500,000 residents live.
4APioneer aims to promote non-profit, publicly accountable and community-owned water services, rejecting privatised water vending models that exploit vulnerable communities. No private water vendors are granted ownership or pricing control. The design of the Kibera Water Project prioritises proximity, affordability, and dignity, reducing the physical burden on women and girls. Funding includes community workshops on hygiene, child health, and water rights, delivered by Amani Kibera with strategic oversight from 4APioneer. Monitoring focuses on rights-based indicators such as time saved for women, school attendance of children, and health outcomes.
By joining the Blue Community Network, 4APioneer aims to:
- Publicly affirm its institutional commitment to the Human Right to Water and Sanitation.
- Align project financing and implementation with internationally recognised water justice principles.
- Learn from, and contribute to, a global network of public, civil society, and community actors advancing equitable water governance.
Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo, CEO of 4APioneer, states:
«4APioneer’s work is grounded in the conviction that water is a human right and a public good, not a commodity. Through the Amani Kibera Water Project, 4APioneer Ltd is supporting a community-led model that prioritises women, children, and vulnerable households, while resisting exploitative private water systems that dominate informal settlements.»
Charles Chitechi, President of Kenya’s Water Sector Workers Association WASWAK and coordinator for the Blue Community Eastern Africa, welcomes 4APioneer as new partner in the network:
«Anyone trying to solve the challenges of water and sanitation in the Kibera slums of Nairobi is a genius in social, economic, spiritual, political and human rights terms. You are God’s chosen team, 4APioneer, and I would like to welcome you to the global Blue Family and the Blue Community Africa.»
