March 2015 - Evidence Action

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What It Takes to Serve 25 Million Customers with Safe Water: Happy World Water Day

Post author:Liam Chan Hodges
Post published:March 22, 2015
Post category:Dispensers for Safe Water
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What's up with those blue dispensers dotting the landscape next to the water holes? Glad you asked. Happy World Water Day from Evidence Action with this video from rural Kenya where we are serving 3 million people today and 25 million in the next few years with a sustainable rural service for safe water. Enjoy!

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An Open Letter to the G7 on Neglected Tropical Diseases

Post author:Liam Chan Hodges
Post published:March 6, 2015
Post category:Deworm the World
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Today, Evidence Action, together with more than 90 other organizations, co-signed an open letter to the leaders of the G7 countries to urge them to support ending neglected tropical diseases including parasitic worms. Despite growing awareness about the human and economic costs of neglected tropical diseases, there is a $220 million global annual funding gap for treatment. This stands in the way of reaching the 2020 treatment targets the World Health Organization has established. Read the letter here.

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Data for Decision Making at Evidence Action

Post author:Liam Chan Hodges
Post published:March 3, 2015
Post category:General
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We use data every day. It’s critically important to our work. As an evidence-based organization, we rely on high-quality, timely and systematic measurement of inputs, outputs, and outcomes to make decisions about our work, and evaluate our progress. We measure to make decisions; we choose our methods depending on the question we want to answer.

So what data that we collect and use, and why?

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