A Note from Our CEO, Kanika Bahl
Here at Evidence Action, we’ve entered 2021 with hope for the year ahead, and an ambitious agenda to achieve. We are working hard to minimize the effect of COVID-19 on our programs, and iterating on strategies that can reinforce and sustain our impact. Best, |
![]() ![]() ![]() Chrispin Owaga, senior manager of our Deworm the World Initiative in Kenya |
From Our Blog
A Journey of Impact: Chrispin Owaga’s Inspiring Path to Evidence ActionChrispin Owaga spent nearly half of his childhood in Nyalenda, one of the biggest slums of Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya. As our senior manager of our Deworm the World Initiative in Kenya, he’s now fulfilling his lifelong aspiration to address the challenges he faced as a child. [UPDATED] When Deworming Comes Knocking: Door-to-Door Drug Administration in India With schools remaining closed across much of India due to COVID-19, the Government of India decided that the first 2021 round of National Deworming Day should proceed through door-to-door, community-based treatment. We helped the government design and implement this model for the prior round in late 2020, as explained in this blog, originally published in September 2020. Our team continues to work closely with the national and some state governments to support the current treatment round, taking place between February through April 2021. |
Newsworthy The Wall Street Journal explores the work of Innovations for Poverty Action’s (IPA) executive director Annie Duflo, and how research interventions can lead to programs that successfully combat global poverty. Our Dispensers for Safe Water program is used as an example of IPA’s research in action, where the program was incubated prior to Evidence Action’s founding with the mission to further scale this and other evidence-based, cost-effective interventions. |
![]() ![]() ![]() Promoters in Kenya receive training on COVID-19 symptoms and prevention strategies, as part of our COVID-19 Prevention Hygeine Project |
Action-able One way in which you can help us increase our impact is by spreading the word about our work with your friends and family. A good place to start is by sharing what highly regarded charity evaluators have to say about us. At the end of last year, Evidence Action received a perfect Encompass Rating in all measured categories by Charity Navigator, the largest charity evaluator in the world. We were also featured as a “super-effecitive charity” by Giving Multiplier, a fund matching program created by Harvard researchers; as a recommended charity by High Impact Athletes, which helps world-class athletes donate a portion of their income; and recommended by Moonshot Mission, a new effective altruism initiative based in Germany. |
Work for Impact Intern, Accelerator – Washington, DC Deputy Director, Programs, Africa Region – Nairobi, Kenya Junior System Administrator, Information Technology – Washington, DC Associate, Data Management – Kisumu, Kenya |
Staff Spotlight
Emilie Efronson, Country Manager for Liberia Emilie Efronson, an experienced public health practitioner, recently joined Evidence Action to manage our new maternal syphilis program in Liberia, which aims to prevent thousands of needless deaths and disabilities in newborn children by detecting and treating syphilis among pregnant women. Based in Monrovia, Emilie and her soon-to-be hired team will work with the government to nationally scale up dual HIV/syphilis rapid testing —leveraging the country’s existing HIV infrastructure—to detect and treat the disease before it causes complications to the child. Today’s testing rate for maternal syphilis in Liberia stands at 6%; we aim to help increase it to 80% within five years. “[Maternal syphilis testing and treatment] is such an under-resourced area. I think what’s extremely exciting is that we can leverage the funding and momentum around HIV to tackle this very serious issue of screening for and treating syphilis. So I think there is a lot of uniqueness in this program, and due to the nature of how easy treatment is for syphilis, it creates a great opportunity to actually make a significant impact.“ Learn more about Emilie and her new role here. |