====Requirements & limitations====
On the page below, The publication of [http://www.rainfoundation.org/ RAIN’s] experiences in sustainable financing of rainwater harvesting projects will be shared from examples in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Nepal. It will reflect upon these experiences and compare them to other research and practices on rainwater harvesting, micro-finance and business development. NGOs and other users will get to know the opportunities and challenges in changing the financial set-up of rainwater programmes.
====Description & results====
RAIN is currently developing a business plan (also see Sustainable Financing Tool) to scale-up its activities in Nepal and introduce sustainable ways of financing rainwater harvesting in other country programmes. A short guide will be developed based on information from Nepal, Burkina and Senegal. It will showcase RAIN's activities in financing and create a platform for discussion and sharing practices on rainwater harvesting.
==Examples==
* IRC Symposium 2010, Pumps, Pipes and Promises, Micro-credit and Rainwater Harvesting (Saskia Nijhof and Bala Ram Shrestha, 2010)
* Senegal (yet to come)
* Burkina (yet to come)
==Documents, videos and links==
* VIEDO: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KaPjPospAk RAIN and BSP-Nepal: working together in rainwater harvesting in Nepal].
RAIN Foundation aims to establish national networks within countries to implement, coordinate, promote and share knowledge on rainwater harvesting. Funded by the RAIN Foundation, a seperate division at BSP-Nepal works to form a national centre of expertise for promotion of rainwater harvesting technology through awareness building, local capacity building, facilitating, networking, and knowledge sharing.
Rainwater harvesting in Nepal forms an appropriate but also necessary methodology to provide water to people living in remote areas of Nepal, where (due to the difficult terrain) water is scare and has to be fetched in valleys. Women and girls have to spent up to 6 hours a day to fetch water, leaving little or no time available for other activities like education or income generating activities.
* VIDEO: [http://bspnepalrhcc.org] This video is coming soon.
