ARRAKIS

ARRAKIS is a network organisation with professional staff, working in multiple regions or countries on water and sanitation projects. ARRAKIS is presently legally registered as a company. The company started in 1990 with the name of RED, Renewable Energy Development . ARRAKIS concentrates on sustainable rural development. Its focus is on capacity building of human resources and institutional development, as well as development and transfer of Affordable Technologies in the field of renewable energy and safe water supply in rural areas of developing countries

Mission statement:
ARRAKIS overall mission is to improve the quality of life of rural populations in countries where extreme poverty occurs.

Development Approach:
ARRAKIS is developing innovative projects in water & energy to demonstrate effective and sustainable solutions to alleviate poverty. Therewith ARRAKIS supports the Millennium Development Goals, more specifically Goals 1 and 7.
Though Affordable Technology is important, ARRAKIS is convinced of the key role of the human factor for sustainable development. Starting point and prerequisite is the genuine participation of people. The best way to achieve this is by capacity building, and making knowledge accessible to people. An (anonymous) Chinese poet once expressed this as follows:
If you want to plan 1 year ahead, sow a seed
If you want to plan 10 years ahead, plant a tree
If you want to plan 100 years ahead, educate the people

ARRAKIS is working with a number of professional associates, with long records of work in areas of developing work.

ARRAKIS has a substantial track record of successful water and sanitation projects. ARRAKIS has been responsible for a number of projects, of which the most typical one is a project in Mozambique, where Affordable Technologies were introduced, like hand rope pumps, manual drilling, low cost irrigations systems and siphon water filters. Since last year ARRAKIS got also involved in low cost sanitation in Mozambique. Some of the major projects are mentioned at the website ( projects ) but there are a number of other projects not mentioned:
• Training in hand rope pumps, manual drilling and wind rope pumps India, counterpart Aureka, for Practica, sponsored by Aqua for All;
• Training in hand rope pumps, manual drilling in Zambia, counterpart DAPP Zambia, paid by EU
• Training in hand rope pumps, manual drilling in Mozambique, paid by GAIA movement and EU
• Training in lining out wells, production of hand rope pumps in Mozambique, counterpart ADPP, project for FACT foundation, sponsored by DOEN, HIVOS and Solidaridad see (Jatropha Project Moz)

ARRAKIS is involved in a number of networks and its associates have a large number of contacts in the “water world”. ARRAKIS is member of AT@work, has very close relations with Connect International Foundation, FACT foundation, GAIA Movement, Aqua for All, etc.