Col. Escalón, San Salvador, El Salvador
+503 2566 6555
To expand and improve drinking water supply and sanitation services. In this endeavor, Azure built a service model for community, municipal, and private water and sanitation systems. The main value proposition is the mobilization of capital from various sources and comprehensive technical assistance.
Azure is a co-author of a sustainability and professionalized model for Water and Sanitation System Operators, based on 5 sustainability pillars
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Investing in water is investing in life.
Azure El Salvador
Founded in 2016, Azure emerged with a noble purpose: to assist low-resource communities in establishing their own drinking water and sanitation systems. As a socially conscious enterprise, Azure provides subsidized technical assistance and essential tools, transforming the dreams of organized communities into a tangible reality: access to safe drinking water.
To consolidate ourselves as the main reference in Latin America in capacity strengthening management of drinking water and sanitation systems with a focus on sustainability, facilitating access to financing, and maintaining the excellence of our technical assistance services with the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and economy.
We are an innovative social enterprise that provides subsidized technical assistance and affordable capital mobilization, combining the expertise of our specialists in the drinking water and sanitation subsector with social impact investment, so that small rural and suburban communities in El Salvador can improve and expand their drinking water and sanitation supply systems, ensuring the quality and sustainability of their services.
Through the Azure Intervention Model, we aim to ensure the sustainability and quality of services provided by the OSAS, combining our comprehensive technical services in capacity building management with access to financing that enables them to expand and enhance their systems.
As a social enterprise, we support the development of the capacities of water operators, municipalities, and the government in general. We have created the Drinking Water and Sanitation School, together with our partners BID Lab, CRS, ACUGUOLFO, the European Union, ANDA, and the Ministry of Health, certifying Water Operators from various parts of the country.
We have worked on the development and implementation of a system called OSAS DID, which stands for Decentralized Digital Identity of Water and Sanitation System Operators Mobile Application. Its aim is to facilitate the connection of Water and Sanitation System Operators with financial institutions through the use of Blockchain technology, which certifies the accuracy of the information, generating a digital identity.
We train Drinking Water and Sanitation Operators to provide better service to the community and facilitate their processes through the use of technology.
TRAINING AREAS
As Azure, S.A., we contribute to the creation, design, and development, alongside BID Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and Azure Source Capital (ASC), to form partnerships and alliances with social impact investors for the establishment of the FIDEAGUA trust. Its purpose is to facilitate timely and affordable credit financing to expand and improve water and sanitation service infrastructure, benefiting the Salvadorean population with modest incomes.
It is an accounting and billing software adapted to the needs of Drinking Water and Sanitation Operators, designed to facilitate their accounting and administrative records. It automates operations such as micrometer readings to mass-create user billing. We offer subsidized prices for Community Operators, including consultancy, training, and technical support for optimal implementation.
To provide low-cost collection services through TigoMoney and its digital platform.
Developing technical guidelines to promote a water culture in El Salvador.
Alongside our cooperating partners, we have created an intervention model that enables community, private, or municipal water operators to become self-sustainable. This involves expanding and improving their systems and providing better service to their communities.
Our professionals in civil engineering, architecture, agronomic engineering, public health, social work, project management, accounting, and financial administration are specialists with extensive experience in water resources management and in the field of drinking water supply and sanitation systems in rural areas.