Kevin Lee

organization overview

A Single Drop for Safe Water and Single Drop Consultancy Services is two organizations working together for a single vision ” Empowered communities taking responsibility to improve their quality of life and managing their resources and capacities”. Within the Philippines there are still large segments of the population with limited or no access to safe water or sanitation facilities. The program of ASDSW; develops within communities, demand for proper WaSH services as well as an awareness of its responsibilities; developing within government at all levels, mechanisms for transparent and accountable WaSH governance and; to meet this demand for WaSH services, the technical and management capacity of both the community and government built to ensure equitable access to WaSH services can be provided. ASDSW/SDCS uses the same models to guide its delivery of Humanitarian Response services in natural/complex emergencies and the follow up early recovery work. It is also in active partnership with government, UN and INGO’s to improve the delivery of emergency WaSH services, ensuring those with the greatest needs receive help in an effective and dignified manner. To compliment the community/government and emergency work ASDSW/SDCS is also working within the education system to enhance existing government child healthcare programs that concentrate on behavior change of students while building local capacity to support or build facilities. As well as government education systems, non-government programs such as Muslim daycares are also covered. To change the paradigm, ASDSW uses SDCS to supply expertise to implement successful programs on the ground. It collaborates with other stakeholders within the sector to further enhance its programs and increase scale of impact and is now starting to use the models, gather and analyze data so as to advocate with government and non-government agencies to change from the traditional water/sanitation implementation model to a more sustainable long term service delivery model.

Personal Bio

Kevin Lee is the Executive Director of A Single Drop for Safe Water inc. and President of Single Drop Consulting Services inc. which is a hybrid organization working with communities and local governments strengthening water and sanitation governance, building capacity of duty bearers to create behavior change, particularly in sanitation and facilitating locally built and managed water and sanitation infrastructure. Additionally programs deal with DRRM and CCA. 2023 he formed DataBridge Technical Solutions inc. providing digital products for local government units for planning, service delivery, as well as medical systems for.

Educated in New Zealand, as a mechanical engineer, he worked as a consulting engineer, in heavy industry. He spent 5 years in the steel industry in the U.S.A. Kevin joined the Peace Corps as a water and sanitation volunteer in the Philippines before co-founding ASDSW

Kevin is an Ashoka Fellow and Tech Museum Laurette. ASDSW-SDCS has developed many customised programs which are being adopted by local government units and heavily involved in national level Water and Sanitation policy development.