Humanitarian Affairs & Development

Developing Tailor-Made Project Management Databases

24.02.2026

DROPSTONE has developed skills in designing and constructing databases for the management of information related to water supply and sanitation projects, borehole drilling campaigns, hydrogeology, geochemestry, but also the management of specialized libraries or engineering projects. We are working together with a team of IT specialists, data analysts and computer scientists and are dedicating an important part of any software development to understand thoroughly the need of the different final users. We are offering tailor-made solutions, where each incremental step is tested in-depth and presented to the Client until the final product can be delivered successfully. Dropstone finalized in October

Securing Water Supply for 170,000 People in Maiduguri

15.06.2026

Optimizing the Alhamduri Well Field under complex humanitarian conditions Project Overview Dropstone was mandated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2021 to assess the groundwater production potential of the Alhamduri Well Field (AWF) in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria. The objective was to determine whether the existing groundwater infrastructure could sustainably increase water supply to approximately 160,000 residents, as well as 10,000 internally displaced people who had sought refuge in the city due to the regional conflict involving Boko Haram. With Maiduguri largely isolated from the rest of the country and facing significant security constraints, improving the productivity of

Migrant Crisis – WASH Emergency Mission – Lesbos, Greece

18.03.2026

On the night of 8 September, 2020, a huge fire broke out in the Moria refugee camp, the largest migrant and asylum seeker camp in Europe. The Swiss Government offered their assistance to the Greek authorities immediately after the incident. The offer was accepted on 9 September, based on which humanitarian experts and material were deployed to the country. As an active member of the Water and Sanitation (WASH) expert group of Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA), Patrick Kilchenmann, Director of Dropstone, was called on 10 September and, together with two other experts, deployed for an assessment mission to the island

Hydrogeological Review – Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer

15.06.2026

The Geneva Water Hub has requested early 2019 the expert advice of DROPSTONE to carry out an extensive review of the scientific knowledge related to the Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer Basin, in order to prepare a round table with representing members of the four States sharing the same underground waters (Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau). The review consisted in collecting and analysing all existing information related to the hydrogeology of the aquifer, in particular the spatial representation of the water reserves, the water balance (infiltration versus extraction rates), the different uses of the water ressources, the potential for conflict, the location of

Evaluation – Conflict Prevention and Management by Communities – Sahel

15.06.2026

Dropstone ended the year 2018 with the evaluation of a conflict prevention and management project by communities in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The project, implemented by the Humanitarian Dialogue Centre (HD) since 2015, has selected, trained and created a network of 286 sedentary and nomadic community leaders. The traditional leaders have solved an impressive number of conflicts over the past years, in vast areas confronted to a lack of State control of their national territory. The conflicts between communities are mostly linked to the access of natural resources such as water or grazing land, the theft of cattle, the

Water Supply Systems Rehabilitation -Ecuador

24.02.2026

Dropstone has provided technical and managerial support to the Ecuadorian Red Cross, which is implementing a water supply project financed by the Swiss Red Cross and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Our Senior Hydrogeologist travelled several times to the Western Coast of the country, in the area severely affected by the earthquake that struck Ecuador in 2016. The 7,8 magnitude earthquake damaged the vital infrastructures providing water, gas and electricity to the people living in the coastal area of Manabi and Esmeraldas provinces. Dropstone provided expert advice to ensure the quality and sustainability of the

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Developing Tailor-Made Project Management Databases

Securing Water Supply for 170,000 People in Maiduguri

Migrant Crisis – WASH Emergency Mission – Lesbos, Greece

Hydrogeological Review – Senegalo-Mauritanian Aquifer

Evaluation – Conflict Prevention and Management by Communities – Sahel

Water Supply Systems Rehabilitation -Ecuador