PepsiCo: Delivering Access to Safe Water through Partnerships

Delivering
Access to
Safe Water
through
Partnerships

As we look at global mega trends, we
know that few challenges are as
signifi cant as the global water crisis.
According to the United Nations,
every day nearly 800 million people
lack access to safe water and more
than two billion people live without
basic sanitation.
At PepsiCo we believe that a responsible business must act as
a global citizen. The ability of a company to fl ourish long-term
ultimately depends on the health of the communities of
which it is a part and the natural resources on which it relies.
The corporations that win in today’s competitive, resource-scarce
and hyper-transparent world are those that create
real value for society.
As a global food and beverage company, we understand that
access to safe water is fundamental to our business and the
communities where we operate. It impacts both our internal
company operations and our supply chain, much of which is
dependent on water-intense agricultural activities. For us,
the necessity of water stewardship is immediate: there is no
business without water.
Cover photo: Safe Water Network – Local Gorikothapally
villagers gather clean water at the community-run
Safe Water Network Station in Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Performance with Purpose
“ Water is the fuel to allow our
business, and the communities across
the world of which we are a part, to
fl ourish. We owe it to ourselves and to
future generations to be responsible
stewards of this limited resource.”
Dan Bena
Sr. Director, Sustainable Development,
PepsiCo
PepsiCo remains steadfastly dedicated to building a profitable
and sustainable 21st century corporation — one that is a good
investment for our shareholders, a good environment for our
employees, a good citizen in our communities and a good
steward of our planet’s resources.
At the heart of PepsiCo is Performance with Purpose — deliv-ering
results in the right way, in a sustained way. In practice,
Performance with Purpose means providing a wide range
of foods and beverages from treats to healthy eats; finding
innovative ways to minimize our impact on the environment
and reduce our operating costs; providing a safe and inclusive
workplace for our employees globally; and doing this by
respecting, supporting and investing in the local communities
where we operate.
A key part of this vision involves holistic water steward-ship.
We respect water as a fundamental human right, and
conserve water and assure its quality in internal operations
and throughout our supply chain, respect shared users of
water within watersheds where we operate and work with
partners to help provide access to safe water to people in
developing countries.
PepsiCo established external, quantitative water goals in 2007,
and has worked aggressively to meet them. For example, in
2012, we announced that we had improved our operational
water use efficiency by more than 20 percent per unit of
production since 2006, meeting our goal four years ahead of
schedule. In addition, in 2012 the Stockholm International Water
Institute awarded PepsiCo the Stockholm Industry Water Award
in recognition of its leadership in water stewardship, and the U.S.
Water Alliance awarded us the U.S. Water Prize.
In 2013, we announced that by teaming up with partners around
the globe, we had provided access to safe water for more than
three million people, meeting that goal more than two years
ahead of schedule. Since then, we have doubled the original
goal, and now intend to provide access to six million people by
the end of 2015 through our partnerships.
An important part of holistic water stewardship is advocacy
through partnership. PepsiCo has formed strategic alliances
with organizations including the United Nations Global
Compact’s CEO Water Mandate, the World Business Council
for Sustainable Development Water Leadership Group, the U.S.
Water Alliance, Cambridge University, and many more.
PepsiCo has long understood the importance of water to the
communities in which we operate. In 2009, we were among
one of the first global companies to publicly recognize water
as a basic human right in the context of the World Health
Organization’s and the United Nations’ Joint Declaration on the
Human Right to Water. The United Nations defines the human
right to water as all people’s right to safe, sufficient, acceptable,
physically accessible and affordable water for personal and
domestic uses.
In addition to PepsiCo’s business initiatives in key geographies,
collaboration with our portfolio of water partners is instrumental
to our progress. By seeking out and leveraging the strengths
of our water partners, PepsiCo and the PepsiCo Foundation
support and enable creative new strategies that achieve
measurable and sustainable progress in the fight to alleviate
water insecurity and provide access to safe water.
These initiatives include water conservation, distribution, puri-fication
and hygiene for underserved communities in China,
India, Mali, Brazil, Colombia and other Latin American countries.
Statements of intent inspire and motivate, but effective action
on the ground is where change happens. Our greatest resource
in this effort centers on key collaborations with a diverse and
innovative core of water partners.
liters of water saved in our
direct operations in 2013

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Through the PepsiCo Foundation, PepsiCo has identified projects and partners that help provide safe water access to millions of
people in underserved communities in China, India, Mali, Brazil, Colombia and other Latin America countries. This is accomplished
through initiatives such as water conservation, distribution, purification and hygiene.
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China Women’s Development Foundation

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Investing in sustainable social change:
PepsiCo’s portfolio of water partners
“ The PepsiCo Foundation seeks to
develop partnerships that off er
sustainable, game-changing
solutions. In the case of bringing
clean, safe water to populations in
need, we developed a portfolio of
partners off ering diff erent solutions,
varied by geography and need, to
tackle the signifi cant challenge.”
Sue Norton
Vice President, PepsiCo Foundation
community service, disaster relief and humanitarian support.
Strategic grants in the area of water have been pursued since
2007 to provide underserved communities in water-stressed
regions with access to clean and safe water.
PepsiCo and the PepsiCo Foundation are proud to include in our
portfolio of water partners: the China Women’s Development
Foundation, the Columbia Water Center, the Inter-American
Development Bank, Safe Water Network, Water.org, and the
2030 Water Resources Group.
Co-creation is critical to impactful partnerships, and PepsiCo
is an active collaborator with our water partners. Each partner
shares with PepsiCo the common goal of sustainable access
to safe water for millions of people. Collectively, we seek to
leverage the individual and unique strengths of PepsiCo, the
PepsiCo Foundation and our partners to drive innovative,
sustainable and comprehensive solutions to the crisis of
water insecurity.
Water stewardship is an absolute business necessity, and
PepsiCo is committed to progress in our own operations, via our
extensive, global network, by partnering with government and
development agencies, and through grants made by our philan-thropic
arm, the PepsiCo Foundation.
The PepsiCo Foundation works to advance our Performance with
Purpose vision with focus in the areas of strategic grant making,
Columbia Water Center – The quality of piped, rural drinking water is tested at a pond in Ceará, Brazil. The tool, developed by the Columbia
Water Center-University of Federal Ceará, has been adopted by the State of Ceará as a best-in-class model.

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China is a dynamic industrial engine and an emerging leader
in the world economy. However, there is another China, full
of rural communities, often lacking basic infrastructure and
competing for limited resources with its rapidly industrializing
counterpart. Chinese society struggles with the growing pains
of rapid growth and the needs of an enormous population still
living in a world largely untouched by the benefits of China’s
economic transformation.
Access to water for China’s rural poor has been a priority of the
Chinese government since the 1980s. Working with govern-ment
ministries, the China Women’s Development Foundation
(CWDF) launched a program called Water Cellars for Mothers
in 2000.
Depending on the specific needs of a village, school or
household, Water Cellars for Mothers brings access to safe
water through rainwater harvesting or building centralized
water supply systems in target communities in rural central and
western China.
PepsiCo’s involvement with Water Cellars for Mothers began
in 2001 with several grants supporting the project. In 2011, the
PepsiCo Foundation awarded CWDF a $5 million grant, to
establish more systemic support of Water Cellars. With the
support of China’s Ministry of Water Resources, the PepsiCo
Foundation grant is funding safe water access projects for
people in rural villages and primary schools in eight provinces
and municipalities, including Yunnan, Gansu, Guangxi, Sichuan,
Chongqing, Guizhou, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia.
The lack of economic development in many of these communi-ties
is compounded by severe, persistent drought. With the help
of Water Cellars for Mothers, families and villages are provided
the means to efficiently capture and store what little rainwater
there is. Improved rainwater harvesting helps communities
become more resilient to climate change and other growing
environmental problems in the region.
CWDF works as a “platform” to mobilize resources for specific
projects. “Through years of cooperation with the PepsiCo
Foundation, we have been working to develop an effective
model to address social issues in China, by leveraging various
resources and strengths of the government, the private sector
CWDF – The Water Cellars for Mothers project, led by the China
Women’s Development Foundation with support from the PepsiCo
Foundation, provides villagers in the Guangxi Province of China
with access to clean water.
and NGOs. This cooperation model ensures the stability of the
project execution, as well as the long-term impact and social
development,” said Qin Guoying, Secretary-General of CWDF.
CWDF’s Water Cellars
for Mothers:
Providing safe water
in rural China
By end-of-year 2013, more than
people had directly benefi ted in
counties and
provinces
from the Water Cellars for Mothers project
Action on the ground:
• The PepsiCo Foundation committed $5 million in support
of the China Water Cellars for Mothers program in 2011.
• The grant is the largest individual donation the PepsiCo
Foundation has ever made in China and builds upon
its ongoing support of the CWDF’s “Water Cellars for
Mothers” Project, an award-winning program that has
benefi ted 1.7 million people.
• By end-of-year 2014, the goal is to provide 17 schools,
including 14,000 students, teachers and school staff with
safe water access.

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Shortly after the United Nations established its 2015 Millennium
Development Goals in 2000, Dr. Upmanu Lall and his colleagues
at Columbia University began work researching solutions to the
central issue of water insecurity and access to safe water.
“At that time,” said Lall, “there were quite a few people in
academia who were writing about the impending global water
crises.” An expert in hydrology, systems, resource management,
climate and risk assessment, Lall recognized the need for a
holistic, systems-based approach to solving the water crisis.
While academic discourse is important to the global body
of knowledge, finding solutions to the water crisis demands
grounding in the field. “To go out and see where there was
manifest water scarcity, what could be done about it, what is the
technology piece, what is the policy piece, and how we could
change things was critical,” said Lall.
With intellectual command and an innovative approach, Lall was
the kind of change-maker PepsiCo was looking for in a water
partner. In 2008, the PepsiCo Foundation awarded a $6 million
grant to the Earth Institute at Columbia University, establishing
the Columbia Water Center, with Dr. Lall as its director.
With the support of the PepsiCo Foundation, Dr. Lall and his
team moved their research “on the ground” to innovate the
holistic approach Lall felt was lacking. By looking at the big
picture, the Columbia Water Center designed integrated strat-egies
on a wider scale for connecting people with water. “What
we were able to do,” explained Lall, “was to look at the policy
angle on things, look at the operational logic structure and
look at the instrumentation in the field needed to address the
problem from all angles.”
The Columbia Water Center developed software-based strat-egies
and new technologies to improve and consolidate the
practices, policies and systems that were in place. Once tested
and refined, Lall and his team trained governments and NGOs
working on the ground to put these new tactics into action.
“We were able to change the way the reservoirs in northeast
Brazil were being operated using climate forecasts. As a result
of the innovations, they were no longer losing as much water
off the reservoirs due to evaporation or spillage,” explained
Lall. Not only did this new approach vastly improve resource
management, it helped ease conflicting demands on resources,
helping agricultural, industrial and community interests
work together.
In all, more than
people were directly impacted by Columbia Water Center’s
eff orts to improve management of the shared water resources
in Brazil, India, Mali and China
The Columbia Water Center focused on ways to engage the
local community to run and maintain these new systems, as well
as trained NGOs and governments how to recognize the best
possible solution based on local policy and available resources.
Columbia Water Center:
Managing resources,
merging interests
Columbia Water Center – Over-pumping of groundwater for
irrigation in Punjab, India threatens the viability of farming. The
Columbia Water Center in partnership with Punjab Agricultural
University’s team is teaching farmers how to reduce their water
usage by 20-30 percent, just by using a simple $6 device.
In Brazil
• With support from the Columbia Water Center, residents
in the state of Ceará built sustainable and cost-eff ective
water delivery infrastructure bringing safe water to more
than 60,000 people. The Agriculture Department of the
State of Ceará adopted the program to develop systems
for other communities in the state.
• The Ceará water allocation project helped the state
better manage the increasing variability around climate.
The project improved safe water access and security for
more than 4 million residents.
In India
• In Punjab, the “breadbasket” of India, irrigation of rice
based on more precise soil moisture measurement
and other water effi ciency measures facilitated by the
Columbia Water Center helped farmers save millions of
liters of water and thousands of kilowatt-hours of energy.

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IDB’s Mexico Project Benefi ciaries – Women in the communities
of El Tigrito, Zitácuaro and Michoacán in Mexico can access
clean water through a water and sanitation program for rural and
isolated communities. The program, funded by the Inter-American
Development Bank’s Aquafund, is led by World Vision Mexico A.C.
• Both organizations, PepsiCo and IDB, work together
to jointly promote the human right to water by holisti-cally
enabling access to safe water and sanitation in
the region.
• In 2012 and 2014, we launched pilot projects that
leveraged public/private partnerships to provide access
to water and sanitation for “dispersed low income rural
communities” in Colombia and Mexico.
• We are developing pilot projects to implement
Hydro-BID, a simulation system for water resources
management, to better forecast/manage local water
resources in Brazil and Peru.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) created the
AquaFund in 2008 to bring renewed focus to the water and
sanitation needs of millions of people in Latin America and the
Caribbean who lacked access to safe water (34 million) and sani-tation
(110 million). The AquaFund is used to fund grants targeted
specifically to water and sanitation, water resource manage-ment,
solid waste management and wastewater treatment. The
AquaFund also assists IDB client countries in coping with the
emerging challenges of climate change, the rapid degradation
of freshwater ecosystems and mounting water insecurity.
In 2011, the PepsiCo Foundation became the first private donor
to the AquaFund with a $5 million grant; all previous contribu-tions
had been made by the IDB and by sovereign governments.
“At the IDB, we believe that finding innovative approaches in
the region that are comprehensive and effective in combating
poverty and promoting equitable growth, and which are sustain-able
and competitive, requires the combined efforts of many
actors,” said IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno.
“We work with companies such as PepsiCo that share a vision
and sense of responsibility for meeting the challenges of
continued expansion of access to services and products.”
IDB and the PepsiCo Foundation expect the AquaFund to be a
catalyst for innovative approaches. Its demonstration projects
seek to produce models for the formulation of a large-scale
potable water supply and wastewater management programs in
high-poverty areas. AquaFund will finance the implementation
of demand-driven and service-oriented models providing
scalable and sustainable access to water supply and sanitation
in dispersed rural areas. Additionally, the AquaFund will finance
pilot innovations tools for integrated water resource manage-ment
that will improve the quality of these services. One such
project is the Hydro-BID system, which will create a set of water
resource modeling tools to estimate the availability of freshwater
throughout the region and the impacts of this availability from
climate, human activity and other stresses.
“The PepsiCo Foundation’s contribution was a very important
milestone for the IDB,” said Silvia Ortiz Stradtmann, a water and
sanitation specialist working on the technical coordination of
the AquaFund. “Every development bank has a water fund. The
PepsiCo Foundation was the first private sector donor in the IDB
to put money into this type of instrument – this type of partner-ship
is so important for driving sustainable and inclusive growth.”
Financing from the AquaFund, including PepsiCo Foundation’s
contribution, is strategically targeted for high-impact pilot
projects that test innovative solutions and provide technical
assistance, policy and capacity development, knowledge
creation and dissemination, and project preparation.
In 2014, the PepsiCo Foundation
and IDB announced a goal
of providing access to safe water
and sanitation to a half million
people by the end of
IDB’s AquaFund:
Partnering for
universal access

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• Safe Water Network was founded in 2006 by then-CEO
of PepsiCo Steve Reinemund, along with Paul Newman
and other civic and business leaders.
• By end of year 2013, Safe Water Network had provided
more than 220,000 people with access to safe water.
• On average, over 90% of Safe Water Stations operate at
or above break-even costs.
Safe Water Network develops and implements market-based
solutions that provide affordable, reliable and safe water access
to rural and decentralized populations throughout Ghana and
India. Through strategic expansions, ongoing innovation and
analysis, knowledge sharing and collaboration, they are proving
that water systems can be owned, operated and maintained by
local communities, and that market-based models have a strong
potential to achieve scale impact.
“Our core focus is on sustainability and scale,” said Amanda
Gimble, Safe Water Network’s Senior Vice President for
Strategic Initiatives. “One of the key issues in safe water access
is the high failure rate of projects. There are lots of efforts — lots
of good intentions, but too many systems fail.”
By the end of 2013, Safe Water Network had worked with 67
communities throughout India and Ghana to build and maintain
Safe Water Stations. Each Safe Water Station provided afford-able,
reliable and safe water access to local residents on a daily
basis. The model worked, even on tight margins. “This is a big
deal, creating incentives for communities to invest in their own
water system,” Gimble said. “When households purchase safe
water from our Stations, revenues are used to pay the local
operator and delivery truck drivers, and build up a reserve for
ongoing maintenance of the purification system. This is a critical
driver of sustainability.”
Since 2008, the PepsiCo Foundation has committed more
than $5 million to Safe Water Network through grants. As with
all of our water partners, the partnership between PepsiCo
and Safe Water Network runs deeper than just a financial
commitment. Former PepsiCo CEO Steve Reinemund was a
founding board member of Safe Water Network, and PepsiCo
associates have been involved with the organization ever since,
serving on the Board, and providing skills-based service and
thought leadership.
“We take a more hands-on approach to corporate engage-ment,”
said Gimble. “This is not just about money. This is
about bringing expertise and applying the knowledge and
experience to everything that we do.” This commitment to
corporate partnership combined with the innovative “bottom-up”
strategies adopted by Safe Water Network offer real hope for
organizations and individuals dedicated to solving the world’s
water crisis.
When combined with demand-driven economic forces within
local communities, charity-based grant money is then more
widely available where it is most effective and needed most.
“Fifteen years ago people thought that those at or near the base
of the pyramid either didn’t have the willingness or the ability to
pay,” said Dan Bena, Senior Director of Sustainable Development
at PepsiCo. “The transition to market-based models is changing
that mind-set, and is an important innovation.” Safe Water
Network, and other organizations like Water.org, prove how
market-based models work to achieve sustainable safe water
access. Instead of being beneficiaries of charity, people near
the base of the economic pyramid living on $2 to $4 per day
possess the economic power of consumers in the marketplace.
Safe Water Network:
Unleashing consumer
demand
Safe Water Network – Vinod Kumar (right), a community mobilizer,
teaches a villager about the importance of clean water at a Safe
Water Network Station in Uttar Pradesh, India.
As of the end of 2013, Safe Water Network
had worked with 67 communities throughout
India and Ghana to build and maintain
Safe Water Stations

Water.org:
Leveraging the power
of the market
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Despite the best intentions, efforts to provide sustained access
to water and sanitation — inextricably linked to the provision of
safe water — too often fail.
One reason for this can be a fundamental disconnect between
well-intentioned benefactors and the communities they hope to
impact. While they truly support the cause, they may not tap into
one of the most important economic resources available: the
local community.
Water.org focuses on leveraging the economic potential of
individuals and organizations within target communities. For
example, subsidy-based programs may be the only way to
address the needs of people living in absolute poverty.
But for many others, including those living near the base of
the economic pyramid, the better solution requires tapping
into the capacity of individuals to become agents of their own
change and drivers of their own solutions. Individuals can
use their power as consumers and community stakeholders
to drive sustainable solutions in a way that top-down charity
programs don’t.
“There is this huge population at the base of the pyramid that
has significant economic potential and has the potential to
become customers,” said Water.org co-founder Gary White.
“India is a good example “for a developing world country there
is a relatively high rate of water access, with some level of
water infrastructure already in place,” explained White. “But, in
absolute terms that still leaves more than 100 million people
without a safe water source, so water access is a huge issue
there. How do we help them tap into their power as customers
so that they can join these water systems that are already there?”
he continued.
To answer that question, Water.org created WaterCredit.
Expanded in India in 2008 with help from a $4.1 million grant
from the PepsiCo Foundation, WaterCredit works with select
microlending organizations to provide families the opportunity
to finance the water or sanitation solutions they need most.
Similar challenges exist throughout the developing world.
Unable to afford the up-front cost of basic water infrastructure
and lacking access to traditional financing, millions of people
Water.org – WaterCredit, a joint program between the PepsiCo
Foundation and Water.org, helps fund tap water connections for
homes in India.
are trapped in an endless cycle of poverty with few opportuni-ties
to move forward. The cycle is broken through microlending
programs, like WaterCredit, that focus on water access and sani-tation
for people in the developing world earning the equivalent
of at least $2 per day. Access to financing makes it possible for
people to become customers and economic stakeholders in
their own communities. As loans are repaid, the money is rein-vested
in the community, sustaining and expanding the reach of
initial investment. This results in communities that are dedicated
to, and have the capabilities required for, solving and managing
their own water and sanitation needs today and in the future.
To date, Water.org has catalyzed
$62 million in capital, reaching
more than
million people
via WaterCredit
• The PepsiCo Foundation helped Water.org scale
WaterCredit in 2008 with a $4.1 million, three-year grant,
bringing market-based solutions to the water sector.
• A second grant (2011–2016) of $8 million was awarded in
2011 to double the size of India’s WaterCredit portfolio.
• By the end of year 2013, the PepsiCo Foundation-funded
eff orts with Water.org directly benefi ted more
than 700,000 people in India by providing access to
safe water.
• The average global WaterCredit loan is $188; 91 percent
of loan recipients are women; the global repayment rate
for such loans is 99 percent.

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Without changes in business practices and government policy,
by 2030, the demand for freshwater could be 40 percent higher
than supply. Governments are the ultimate custodians, but
water security requires that other stakeholders also play a role
in designing and delivering inclusive and innovative solutions
to scarcity. There is deep and wide technical expertise within
the water resources community. The private sector can be a
rich repository of knowledge and insights on how to address
the water security challenge and on-the-ground experience in
innovating and implementing a range of practical solutions, such
as in water efficiency and water supply.
In the last five years, the 2030 Water Resources Group (2030
WRG) and its partners have elevated awareness about the
challenges and risks of water scarcity in a growing number of
countries and demonstrated how parties can effectively tackle
water resources challenges together.
The 2030 WRG helps countries, at their request, achieve water
security by 2030, by facilitating collective action on water
among governments, the private sector and civil society.
The 2030 WRG brings transformative change to water resources
planning by convening national multi-stakeholder platforms and
structured processes — including key public decision-makers,
concerned private sector champions and civil society represen-tatives
— who catalyze sustainable, rational, economics-based
solutions to closing the water supply-demand gap. The 2030
WRG’s approach is to raise awareness through hydro-economic
analysis, triggering momentum through multi-stakeholder
convenings and enabling transformation by others.
The PepsiCo Foundation has supported the 2030 WRG since its
inception at the World Economic Forum in 2011. The support and
commitment from the PepsiCo Foundation has been invaluable
to the progress and success of the 2030 WRG’s initiatives in
Peru, Mexico, Jordan, Tanzania, South Africa, India, the Indian
states of Maharashtra and Karnataka, and Mongolia. Local
PepsiCo representatives contribute to the development of
national and regional programs and projects that are important
for the improved management and better use of the water
resources, making water available for people, ecosystems and
for economic development and growth.
2030 Water
Resources Group:
Transforming water-resource
planning to close
the supply-demand gap
“ No actor alone has the ability to
solve the challenges at hand, but by
working together in developing and
implementing strategies, policies,
plans and programs, much more can
be achieved.”
Anders Ingvald Berntell
Water Resources Group Executive Director
2030 Water Resources Group – © Panos Images. An African woman
waters her crop.

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Measuring the social value generated by our investments
requires a commitment to objective data collection, with some
data points possibly considered “nontraditional” when applying
a standard business lens. In the case of safe water access,
examples of key performance indicators include:
• How many people have access to safe water as a result of
a specifi c project?
• Is this access to water sustainable over time?
• How much additional income is provided to those families
that are provided access to safe water?
• How many cases of a specifi ed disease have
been prevented?
The purpose of this measurement effort is to determine where
our investments are helping to achieve the goal of realizing
positive, sustained change in people’s lives, and where
opportunities exist to improve its efficacy. It also aims to dimen-sionalize
the powerful and complementary “catalytic effect” that
can occur as a result of an initial investment. Some might refer
to this as “callable capital,” meaning that an initial investment
from a single partner, like the PepsiCo Foundation, can actually
stimulate investment from other sources.
To accomplish this goal of thoroughly understanding the
complexity of the return on social investment, the PepsiCo
Foundation partnered with True Impact, a consulting firm
specializing in social impact assessment, to create a set of
standardized reporting and measurement tools that we could
use with our partners to capture and analyze the social, envi-ronmental
and business value of our investments in safe water
and sanitation.
Our resulting measurement framework supports both of our
objectives. First, it helps us assess where our investments of
cash and expertise could realize the greatest impact per dollar
spent (including where we could help create new models
or new momentum to catalyze gains beyond our immediate
investments). Second, it helps us gather feedback on the effec-tiveness
of operational level tactics and strategies, and where
opportunities exist to increase return on investment.
This measurement process reveals the real value of our commit-ment
— what is achieved, what needs improvement and how
best to spread positive impact through the larger sector in an
ever-widening circle of influence.
Impact vs. Action—
moving the needle toward
positive social change
Water.org – A woman in India uses water from a fi ltration structure
for household chores. The structure is funded through WaterCredit,
a program made possible by the PepsiCo Foundation and Water.org.
IDB’s Latin America Project Benefi ciaries – Students in rural Haiti
can access clean water through hand pumps thanks to a water and
sanitation program. The program is led by the National Directorate
for Water Supply and Sanitation (DINEPA), which is one of many
organizations supported by the Inter-American Development Bank.

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Measuring impact and
communicating value
“ PepsiCo’s eff orts to establish
standardized and open performance
metrics — to promote accountability
and continuous improvement among
all stakeholders committed to
improving global access to safe water
— is a model for this and other social
investment sectors.”
Farron Levy
CEO, True Impact
At PepsiCo, we appreciate our role as an active, engaged social
investor. Our job is to provide not only funds, but expertise,
guidance and support to our partners in the field. Setting goals
for social change serves as an important motivating force, but
progress must be measured, and true impact assessed.
The strength of our water portfolio centers around the diverse
strategies each partner brings to the task of providing access to
safe water within the communities they serve. Identifying what
Columbia Water Center – As a solution for the water-energy-food
crisis in India, the Columbia Water Center has helped farmers
to identify crops that use low quantities of water to match local
water supplies.
works and what needs improvement across this broad spectrum
of projects and partners is essential to the long-term success of
PepsiCo’s water stewardship goals.
We recognize our unique ability to bring together the most
innovative partners in the water sector and our responsibility
to all stakeholders to provide the expertise and methods for
assessing and communicating value, both social and economic.
That “value,” when dissected, can become increasingly
complex, and some components are difficult to quantify. Some
refer to the concept of inputs, outputs and outcomes, and
all are important to understand so that the aggregate value
of a partnership’s impact can be identified and communi-cated
effectively.
Columbia Water Center – The Columbia Water Center is working with the local government in Kukarwada, India to reform electricity
subsidies and encourage water conservation while preserving farmers’ incomes.

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To capture the overall impact of PepsiCo Foundation’s various
safe water investments across the globe, we first developed
an integrated theory of change model to harmonize social-outcome
objectives across our implementation partners.
Then, we developed standardized performance indicators —
including social value generated, cost per outcome and select
process performance metrics — to ensure accountability and
promote continuous improvement for our investment decisions
and among our implementation partners.
We envision expanding this measurement structure, inviting any
safe water access funder or implementer to contribute to and
learn from the successes and failures of the broader network, to
help us all achieve our goals.
Measurement Framework
Theory of Change:
Safe Water Access Investment Portfolio (Composite Model)
OUTPUTS
(goods/services delivered)
Conservation
Promote watershed
health and accessibility
Distribution
Create new distribution systems
Upgrade existing
distribution systems
Purifi cation and Sanitation
Build new sanitation
systems and practices
Promote hygienic behavior
Investment and Managerial Metrics
OUTCOMES
(change in targeted social conditions)
Increase access to safe water
Health gains
Economic gains
Time gains (and ripple eff ects)
Process.
How well are the standardized components within our invest-ments
performing (vs. the rest of our portfolio or the sector
overall)? Are there opportunities to improve (i.e., best practices
to leverage or weaknesses to address)? E.g.:
Loans
PepsiCo Foundation Funds
Co-investment Grant Funds
Catalyzed Projects
Social Value.
How much are our investments improving the social problems we
care about? E.g.:
• X million people provided access to safe water
• $X additional income generated for X families
• Prevented X thousands of cases of [specifi ed disease]
Cost per Outcome.
How efficiently are our investments creating the social value we’ve
targeted (i.e., are we maximizing our return on investment [ROI]
compared to other program designs or investment options)? E.g.:
• Option A: $40 = 1 person provided safe water access
• Option B: $25 = 1 person provided safe water access
Standardized
Components
($) Avg.
cost / unit
(#) People
served / unit
(%) Success
Rate
Hygiene Training $2,750 35 72%
HH Rainwater
Harvest
$325 4.3 99%
INPUTS
(resources invested)
INVESTMENT METRICS MANAGERIAL METRICS

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The journey continues
Through the dedication of PepsiCo, the PepsiCo Foundation and our partners, we have
reached our original goal of partnering to provide access to safe water to three million
people by 2015 and subsequently doubled our goal to reach an additional three million
people in that time frame. Yet, our journey continues.
No single business, NGO or government can solve the
problems facing the world today. However, each has a
role to play.
PepsiCo continues to work toward our ambitious goals
in the critical area of water sustainability and recognizes
that collaboration — such as the partnership detailed
in this report — is the best path to innovative solutions
and progress.
We believe that the most successful companies are
those who see their success as inextricably linked to the
success of the world around them. That’s why we see
Performance with Purpose as the catalyst for our success.
PepsiCo and the PepsiCo Foundation join with our water
partners in a common objective: to remain steadfast in the
goal of positively impacting the global water crisis.
More information about PepsiCo, Performance with
Purpose, our sustainability initiatives and our progress can
be found in our Corporate Sustainability Report online at
PepsiCo.com.
Additional Project Benefi ts
In addition to providing safe water access,
our investments also resulted in a signifi cant
improvement to the health, wealth
and well-being of our benefi ciaries.
Reclaimed
time
52,000
Improved
wealth
Avoided
diseases
106,000
168,000
Number of benefi ciaries
Progress vs. Promise
Based on the 2011–13 data submitted by grantees, PepsiCo has
achieved its previously stated goal of partnering to provide
access to safe water1 to three million people and it is on track
to deliver access to an additional three million people in
developing countries by the end of 2015.
OVER 5.6MM PEOPLE PROVIDED SAFE WATER ACCESS
INVESTMENT TYPE
GEOGRAPHY
1 Access to safe water achieved at watershed, community and household
levels by making water more readily available, better managing supply
or volume of water, and/or ensuring quality through water treatment,
improved hygiene and community sanitation.
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75%
13%
8%
4%
Water.org
0.7 MM
China Women’s
Development
Foundation
0.5 MM
Columbia
Water
Center
4.3 MM
Safe Water
Network
0.2 MM
84%
13%
3%
Purification
Sanitation
0.7 MM
Conservation
0.2 MM
Distribution
4.8 MM
73%
18%
8%
India 1.0 MM
China 0.5 MM
Brazil
4.1 MM
1%
Ghana 0.05 MM

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