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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 Announcing a Big Milestone: Carbon Credits for Dispensers for Safe Water in Uganda Approved
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Announcing a Big Milestone: Carbon Credits for Dispensers for Safe Water in Uganda Approved

Evidence Action is proud to announce that we are now officially registered under South Pole Carbon’s International Water Purification Programme to generate carbon credits for Dispensers for Safe Water in Uganda. The project in Uganda will be jointly registered with the Gold Standard Foundation, meaning that it meets the highest standards of sustainable development for the communities in which we work. Dispensers for Safe Water, one of Evidence Action’s flagship programs operating in Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi, reduces the need to burn fossil fuels as a means of boiling drinking water. Instead, people are able to purify their water with the simple and effective addition of a small amount of chlorine directly at the water source.

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Read more about the article Listening to Users: Using Evidence in Designing Products for Development
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Listening to Users: Using Evidence in Designing Products for Development

Social entrepreneurs are driven by passion. We are people who have bold ideas to solve huge challenges, and have almost singular vision to the execution of our idea. Our products are our babies--we know every dimension, every line of code, or every component because we have spent many long evenings debugging, tinkering, sketching, and wholly immersed in the creation of something we believe to be truly innovative. We believe that are products will have large scale impacts and solve big problems. The trouble is, we may be so dedicated to our solution that we don’t dedicate enough time to fully understanding the problem. We may be so focused on the product as the solution, we don't gain enough perspective on the issue to really understand what is needed to address it.

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