Adara

Venture: Sanitation and Health Rights in India (SHRI)
Investment: $1.5M grant
Portfolio: Scaling Capital
Investment date: September 2025
Region(s) served: India
Sector: WASH
Core Impact Metric: Access: 2.21M total uses in SHRI-managed facilities in 2024.
Reliability: 99% facility uptime for SHRI-managed facilities in 2024.

Grant to expand to an additional 66 sanitation facility services in high-need communities and schools over the next two years.

SHRI partners with state and district governments to renovate, maintain, and monitor community sanitation facilities to reduce open defecation and improve health equity in rural India.

Why Rippleworks Invested:

SHRI has successfully demonstrated the government as a payer! They now have the potential to demonstrate their success in 2 states in a way that could be easily adopted and replicated at scale nationally in India.