Dispensers for Safe Water

Read more about the article Post-Pay For Results: What Makes Evidence Action’s Work on Safe Water So Different?
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Post-Pay For Results: What Makes Evidence Action’s Work on Safe Water So Different?

"We will get to 49% adoption" said Joel determinedly. We were standing in a makeshift meeting room tacked onto the end of the Evidence Action field office in Busia, Western Kenya. Joel is  the local Area Coordinator for Dispensers for Safe Water, one of Evidence Action’s flagship projects. My first impressions as the new Deputy Director of Global Safe Water on how Evidence Action is approaching sustainability and results differently. 

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Read more about the article 3 Ways to Boost Chlorine Adoption for Dispensers for Safe Water
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3 Ways to Boost Chlorine Adoption for Dispensers for Safe Water

Up to 80% of households within a community use Dispensers for Safe Water in the first three months of installation, and 40% on average for the months following. But we have seen that this customer uptake--what we call ‘adoption'--has gone down in some geographical areas. So we took a close look at what works in getting our customers to use Dispensers and chlorinate their water.

 

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Read more about the article Data for Decision Making at Evidence Action
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Data for Decision Making at Evidence Action

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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