Our Values: address
root causes
for impact
We start by clearly defining the impact that we want to help bring about, and then think through the complexity of social change so that our actions target root causes. Owen Scott and our Access to Water Team performed such evaluations when they focused their attention on the 40% of water points across rural Malawi that were non-functional. What they found was a broken system contributing to the severe lack of water, not a broken seal on a pump. Together with Malawi’s districts, EWB is bringing data to the decision making process to help inform where new wells are drilled and where others are simply rehabilitated at a much lower cost.