Evidence Action Inc

Evidence Action reaches millions with the world's most effective health interventions. Our evidence-based solutions provide the greatest impact for communities per dollar spent.

Evidence Action is building a world where hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places have

Goal One: Deworm the World: Help governments eliminate intestinal worms as a public health problem among children, and as a result, improving their health, access to education, and livelihoods potential.

Goal Two: Dispensers for Safe Water: Deliver free and reliable safe water access to rural communities, reducing diarrheal disease and improving and saving the lives of children under 5.

Goal Three: Accelerator: Identify evidence-based interventions with high potential for cost-effective impact and scale those that can measurably improve lives through robust delivery models.

Evidence Action invests in leadership development opportunities across levels for its staff. Our US-based staff has access to leadership development courses through an external organization called The Management Center, based in Washington DC, and our HR team is researching other local training programs for our employees in the other countries we operate. All US-based staff are encouraged to take a training course called “Working for Change” which helps people define and “own” their workflows, and those in a managerial position receive an additional course in project management and effective leadership. We hold regular meetings for global and regional management teams that discuss key elements of leadership and contribute to skill building.

During the pandemic, Evidence Action was able to continue program operations and provide additional support to the communities we serve. By leveraging existing resources and relationships, we adapted our program delivery to enable the continuation of high-impact and cost-effective interventions in geographies where such programming is essential for maintaining the health of populations. Our Dispensers for Safe Water program adapted its model to ensure communities had continued access to safe water. In mid-2020, we undertook an emergency response to distribute soap, disinfectant, and hygiene education materials to +67,000 communities with the help of our community-elected volunteers we call promoters. Following initial COVID disruptions, by Oct. 2020 we repaired or replaced +5,000 dispensers and delivered approximately 500,000 liters of chlorine, keeping 27,000 dispensers stocked to provide safe water through Jan. 2021 before returning to normal operations. Our Deworm the World Initiative has worked to support governments in adapting school-based deworming programs in the midst of school closures. In Pakistan, we are working with provincial governments to conduct a new round of deworming treatments beginning July 2021. Following school closures in Kenya, we helped the government restart school-based deworming in early 2021, and successfully prototyped a new method to validate deworming coverage while maintaining social distancing. In Nigeria, we helped the government safely launch a new deworming program in Lagos in May 2021 and are working in other states to restart school-based treatment. In India, we helped the government shift school-based deworming and iron and folic acid supplementation programs to community-based delivery, providing children with continued access to treatment at home. We also used our analytics capabilities to support state governments' COVID-19 response with rapid data analysis, communications materials, and patient and contact tracing.