Project: Water Access & Pollution

This proposal introduces the Project Health Control (PHC) Service as an independent governance tool to support Haiti – Water Access & Pollution, an emerging humanitarian initiative being developed through the Defenders of Human Rights (DHR) community. While the project is still in its early definition stage, the underlying challenge is clear and urgent: communities facing unreliable access to safe water alongside pollution pressures that worsen health, dignity, and resilience. The project requires disciplined structure to convert concern into practical delivery, partner coordination, and funder-ready evidence.

The PHC Service is offered as a practical means of strengthening visibility, accountability, safeguarding discipline, and follow-through in a complex, high-sensitivity environment where needs can be urgent, resources limited, and trust essential. Its purpose is not to replace local leadership, technical water and sanitation expertise, or the work of implementing partners, but to reinforce them by ensuring that concerns are captured reliably, priorities are clear, action ownership is explicit, evidence is visible, and progress is reviewed in a structured and disciplined way.

The proposed PHC support would operate across three phases:

• Phase 1 – Initial Review / Diagnostic: a short but deliberate governance challenge phase to confirm the project’s true readiness before scaling effort or seeking major funding. This review would examine the current concern landscape, baseline information quality, safeguarding and consent boundaries, stakeholder and partner clarity, major delivery assumptions, and immediate control gaps — with the explicit possibility of identifying issues serious enough to justify a pause, re-scope, or rethink decision.
• Phase 2 – Setup / Mobilisation: establishment of PHC data structures and working routines needed for controlled delivery — including a structured concerns register, action tracking and follow-up rules, evidence capture, reporting templates, partner mapping, and a practical pathway from community-reported problems into prioritised actions and funded work packages.
• Phase 3 – Continuation / Embedded Oversight: ongoing renewable monitoring and governance support, including regular review of project health, escalation where needed, evidence-based reporting for funders and partners, and disciplined management of risks, actions, assumptions, and priorities as the project progresses from early mobilisation into implementation.

Haiti – Water Access & Pollution is a humanitarian initiative being developed through the Defenders of Human Rights (DHR) community, designed to address the human impact of unsafe water access and pollution pressures. It is intended to move from lived experience and advocacy into disciplined planning, delivery, and funder-ready evidence through PHC Service governance support.

Project at a glance:

• Proposed locations: Haiti (initially framed as “across Haiti”, to be refined as priority communities are confirmed).
• Primary purpose: To reduce harm and improve dignity by strengthening safe water access and addressing pollution-related impacts through structured action and follow-up.
• Delivery model: Community-informed problem capture and mobilisation, strengthened by PHC governance tools for documentation, prioritisation, action tracking, and reporting.
• Key workstreams: Baseline scoping and gap analysis, concerns register, action planning, partner mapping (water/sanitation/public health), evidence pack reporting, funder engagement.
• Beneficiaries: Communities affected by unsafe water supply, contamination and pollution impacts, and related health and livelihood pressures.
• Primary constraint: Early-stage capacity and structure (clear scope, delivery resources, partner links, reliable follow-up, and sustainable funding).

The current stage is early formation: the intent and theme are clear, and the project is now being structured into a minimum operating system. The immediate goal is to establish a practical delivery pathway and produce credible proof of progress that can attract partners and unlock funding for real-world implementation.

The Haiti – Water Access & Pollution project would involve a practical mix of parties typical of a community-led humanitarian initiative with a technical delivery component. These would include the local project lead(s) and community representatives, Defenders of Human Rights (DHR) leadership, volunteers supporting outreach and coordination, and any on-the-ground implementers engaged to assess, design, or deliver water access and pollution mitigation activities.

Depending on scope and stage, other important participants could include local NGOs and civil society partners, public health and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) specialists, schools and clinics, local authorities and utilities where relevant, environmental stakeholders, and external donors or funding organisations. Each of these parties brings its own priorities, constraints, and information flows, making clear governance, safeguarding boundaries, and reliable follow-through essential.

The PHC Service would not replace the authority or expertise of those involved. Instead, it would provide a structured way for participants to capture concerns consistently, clarify action ownership, maintain evidence of progress, and strengthen overall coordination and accountability across a sensitive, multi-stakeholder delivery environment.

The expected outcomes of applying the PHC Service to the Haiti – Water Access & Pollution project would include:

• Clearer visibility of key concerns, risks, assumptions, actions, and priorities affecting safe water access and pollution impacts in the targeted communities.
• Earlier identification of governance weaknesses, safeguarding gaps, data quality issues, and delivery threats before they create harm, delay, or loss of trust.
• Stronger ownership of actions, responses, and follow-up responsibilities across local leads, partners, and supporting contributors.
• Improved continuity between discussions, site realities, and practical follow-up work, reducing the risk of issues being raised repeatedly without progress.
• Better quality reporting for funders and partners, with structured evidence of what has been assessed, prioritised, actioned, and progressed.
• More disciplined escalation of serious concerns, particularly where health risk, safety, security, corruption risk, or vulnerable-person exposure is significant.
• Greater accountability through a clear audit trail of decisions, actions, deliverables, and learning as the project evolves.
• A more realistic and current understanding of project health, including what is working, what is blocked, and what requires resource or partner intervention.
• Stronger support for decision-making by ensuring that the most important issues remain visible, responsibilities are clear, and control routines are maintained.
• In practical terms, increased confidence that the project can move from early mobilisation into fundable, implementable work packages under firmer governance and safeguarding control.

Category	Description	Total Cost
IT Services and Tooling	Filemaker, Mindmanager, Conferencing, Development Apps (one off contribution)	£1,900
PHC Start Pack - Hardware (*1)	A set of 5 Single Board Computers, Monitor and UPS	£1,442
PHC 7-Day Review (*2)	PHC Service for Pre-start Review (7 days)	£277
PHC Setup (*2)	PHC Service during 2-month Setup Phase	£2,076
PHC Continuation (*2)	PHC Service during 3-month Continuation Phase	£3,236
Miscellaneous	Travel, training, insurance, and other variable costs	£1,000
		£9,931

(*1) Hardware Breakdown

Category	Description	Total Cost
Single Board Computer Set x5	Raspberry Pi 500, Mouse, hdmi cable, power cable)	£722
Monitor x5	Mini-Monitor (for RP500)	£480
Site UPS	Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for site computers.	£240
		£1,442

(*2) PHC People Costs [Review=M1, Setup=M2,3, Continuation=M4,5,6]

Role	People	Hourly Rate	M1	M2	M3	M4	M5	M6	Total (GBP)
PHC Strategist	David Winter	£12.60	10	8	8	8	8	8	£630
PHC Analyst	Abubakr Harakat	£8.40	5	16	16	16	16	16	£714
PHC Admin	Victor Williams	£4.90	5	24	24	24	24	24	£613
PHC Trainee	[name1] [name2] [name3]	£1.68	0	48	48	72	72	72	£524
Project People	Eliezer Leonce [Name 2] [Name 3]	£8.40	10	72	72	72	72	72	£3,108
Total			£277	£1,038	£1,038	£1,079	£1,079	£1,079	£5,589

Footnote - People Costs and PICS Eligibility: The people-related costs shown above relate to funded governance, delivery, leadership, and trainee roles agreed at the outset of the project. These paid hours are not eligible for PICS (Pro Bono Social Impact Credits). PICS applies only to unpaid or underpaid service contributed outside funded roles. PHC Service maintains a clear, auditable separation between funded work and any pro-bono contribution, preventing double recognition while ensuring transparency to funders.

Appendix Highlights:

For supplementary information and supporting documents refer to the links section.

• The Story of PHC (Founder's Vision)
• Project Gap Analysis
• Rate Calculator (xlsx)
• Rate Calculator - 7-Day Review
• Rate Calculator - Setup Phase
• Rate Calculator - Continuation Phase
• Approach to Project
• Order Efficiency Ltd - Company Profile (Overview)
• Order Efficiency Ltd - Company Brochure
• Order Efficiency Ltd - Presentation
• PHC 7-Day Review Proposal Framework
• Incorporation Package (Structure & Governance)
• Evolution of PHC (History & Development)
• Why Projects Break Budgets (PHC Diagnostic Lens)
• PHC Concerns Management (A Railway Travesty)
• The PHC Value Proposition (Video - 3m)
• PHC in Action (Video - 20min)
• Seven PHC Lists (Video - 10min)