Timeline of Evidence Action
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| 2013 | Foundation | Evidence Action launches formally with the purpose to "scale up poverty interventions that have been proven to be effective in order to benefit millions of people".[1] | |
| 2013 | December | Recognition | Charity evaluator GiveWell chooses the Deworm the World Initiative at Evidence Action as one of its top 3 charities in 2013.[2] |
| 2014 | May | Donation | Based on GiveWell’s recommendation of Deworm the World as a top charity for 2013, Good Ventures announces provision of US$1.5 million to Deworm the World Initiative at Evidence Action. The funds are donated by Good Ventures to “cover around 75% of the minimum level of funding that GiveWell would like to see its recommended charities raise during the 2013 giving season.”[3] |
| 2014 | June 3 | Partnership | Evidence Action announces partnership with One Percent for the Planet, an alliance of over 1,200 member companies in 48 countries that give one percent of revenues to environmental causes. The partnership allows EA to receive donations from 1% for the Planet member companies, placing it in the network of environmental organizations.[4] |
| 2014 | July 25 | Evidence Action announces registration under South Pole Carbon’s International Water Purification Program, to generate carbon credits for Dispensers for Safe Water in Uganda.[5] | |
| 2016 | January 27 | Good Ventures grants US$10.8 million to Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative program, which supports national school-based deworming programs in Kenya, India, and Ethiopia. The funds received are planned to further scale treatment of at-risk children in additional high-burden countries throughout the year.[6] | |
| 2016 | November | Evidence Action provides lymphatic filariasis treatment support to Kenyan Ministry of Health and its Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Unit. With the program, targeting over 2.3 million adults and children in all six of Kenya’s endemic counties, the drugs used are a combination of albendazole and diethylcarbamazine (DEC), provided at no cost by the World Health Organization global drug donation program.[7] | |
| 2017 | March | Funding | No Lean Season announces major support from the Global Innovation Fund (GIF), a London-headquartered investor in social innovations. The total investment from GIF for the next two years is $2,571,210. The funds are expected to be used to support the rigorous testing and expansion of No Lean Season in Bangladesh and Indonesia.[8] |
| 2017 | October | "Evidence Action currently provides 652,000 Malawians with sustained access to clean water with 3,772 dispensers installed to date (as of October 2017" "Evidence Action today provides over 2.3 million Kenyans with sustained access to clean water in the home with 18,512 dispensers installed to date (as of October 2017 " "Evidence Action provides 1.75 million Ugandans with access to safe drinking water with 5,788 dispensers installed (as of October 2017". |
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- ↑ "Our Approach and History". evidenceaction.org. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ↑ "GiveWell's top 3 charities of 2013: Deworming at Evidence Action". evidenceaction.org. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ↑ "Full Transparency: Deworm the World Initiative's Grant from Good Ventures". evidenceaction.org. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
- ↑ "Evidence Action Announces Partnership with 1% for the Planet". evidenceaction.org. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ↑ "Announcing a Big Milestone: Carbon Credits for Dispensers for Safe Water in Uganda Approved". evidenceaction.org. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ↑ "Announcing Good Ventures Grant to the Deworm the World Initiative". evidenceaction.org. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
- ↑ "Evidence Action Provides Lymphatic Filariasis Treatment Support to Kenyan Ministry of Health". evidenceaction.org. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
- ↑ "'No Lean Season' Announces Major Grant from Global Innovation Fund". evidenceaction.org. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
