WHAT THE STANDARD IS: Splash’s mandate includes the following broad areas of work:

• Clean drinking water infrastructure – Splash is committed to making sure that the water at our project sites is safe to drink.  We use a range of filter systems and child-friendly drinking stations matched to the water quality, water demand, and water availability at a site. While a site needs minimum levels of water availability (see Infrastructure Standards) in order for our intervention(s) to be feasible, we will work within our realm of influence and budgetary restrictions to improve water access in areas where water supply is inadequate or inconsistent.
• Handwashing infrastructure – We are also committed to ensuring that our sites have adequate and appropriate environment for good hygiene.  This includes physical infrastructure (that is child-friendly and inclusive) and access to soap.
• Sanitation infrastructure – Splash is committed to ensuring that our sites have clean, safe, and child-friendly sanitation facilities.  This work may range from renovations of existing toilets to construction of new urinals and toilets. All solutions are designed to be culturally appropriate and to take into account the needs of different genders and children with special needs.
• Behavior Change – Splash implements a range of behavior change interventions focused on ensuring that our infrastructure is properly maintained and used correctly, and that kids perform critical actions to remain safe and healthy.  While not limited to hygiene, a large portion of current behavior change efforts are geared towards making sure that kids are utilizing best practices when it comes to their personal hygiene (both related to drinking water, hand washing, and menstrual health. Increasingly, our behavior change work focuses on the keys to ensuring better “ownership” of the WASH infrastructure at our sites by the adults who are responsible for maintaining it. Finally, we explore opportunities to leverage the network of sites and kids to transform behaviors in their communities.
• Sustainability – Splash is working on a variety of initiatives to increase the sustainability of our interventions.  These include a range of initiatives including the build-out of local repair and maintenance systems, spare parts availability, and social enterprises or other revenue opportunities (i.e. kiosks selling water) at certain sites. Splash also strives to create site-level sustainability through clear agreements (such as MOUs) and negotiations that emphasize buy-in and articulate the responsibilities of all parties (including financial responsibilities/matching from the site, when possible).

HOW WE DECIDE: Splash intentionally customizes the mix of interventions at different sites based on a variety of factors including:

1. Need – we only use interventions where the need is required.
2. Population/Users – we determine the exact interventions based on the population size at the site and the demand that is likely to be required.
3. Physical Space – some sites don’t have the ability to do all interventions, nor to do every intervention up to full standard, given space issues.
4. Site buy-in – we will only operate in sites where we have full buy-in from the local management of the site.

WHAT THE STANDARD IS: Splash has adapted our commitment to sites over time to maximize the likelihood of site sustainability going forward and to better align with the circumstances where we work. We have learned that not transitioning to local ownership quickly enough can be just as problematic as transitioning too soon without building time for local adoption. For current interventions, we provide three years of support to individual sites where in year 1 "deployment" we provided an intensive amount of support where our support tapers down in years 2 and 3.  Sites "graduate" in year 3, thought we typically measure our results for 5 years.