Water & Development

The sound of flowing water is transforming life in Buhingu Village, perched along the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania’s Kigoma Region. For the first time, families here no longer fear what it takes to collect water, because clean, safe water now runs through their own taps.

With Project Flow, UNHCR is pioneering a smarter way to solarize diesel-run water systems while cutting costs, reducing emissions, and improving daily life for people forced to flee and their hosting communities.

Singapore and Denmark pioneer sustainable cooling for megacities, supported by US$9.4 million from Grundfos Foundation. This is the Grundfos Foundation’s largest individual research grant to date and the first to include a university outside Denmark.

A new three-year initiative expanding home-grown school meals in East Africa is backed by USD 40 million in co-financing from the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Grundfos Foundation.

The Grundfos Foundation has renewed its support for the Water Safe Cities programme with a commitment of US$ 3.64 million (DKK 25.5 million) over the next three years for C40 Cities, the global network of nearly 100 cities committed to urgent and equitable climate action.

A new collaboration between the Queen Mary Center, Professor of Political Science Michele Betsill, and C40 will investigate the transformative potential of high ambition city commitments within urban water management and resilience building.

With DKK 20 m in funding from the Grundfos Foundation, PlanBørnefonden will use water as a lever for job creation among young people in Togo. The project combines the Foundation’s expertise in water with PlanBørnefonden’s many years of experience in job creation for youth to create sustainable future prospects for young people in the West African country.

At 2024 World Water Week in Stockholm , the Grundfos Foundation shines a light on its important partnership with UNICEF and Water Mission in Western Tanzania’s Kigoma Region through an interactive photo exhibition.

Two out of three refugees experience prolonged humanitarian crises lasting several years, often even decades. Meanwhile, refugee camps have traditionally been designed and run as temporary solutions for acute crises. A new partnership between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the LEGO Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Grundfos Foundation supports Kenya's ambitions to move away from a temporary approach, benefiting both refugees and local communities.