EWB Toronto City Networks Chapter Shop Day – Sharing Successes! December 4th, 2010

2 +140,000 Volunteer Hours

n Aid Effectiveness campaign (ACT) – met 115 MP’s in over 240 meetings, 680 letters sent

n Reverse Trick or Treat – over 70,000 Fair Trade chocolates distributed, pre-sold packets of 50 chocolates to people to give out at Hallowe’en

n Engineering Curriculum – 9,000 1st year engineers did EWB’s “Solving Problems that Matter”

n Engage in debate and discussion – SHOP DAYS!

EWB + PEO = BFF!! 3 + 3

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5 +EWB’s Failure Report a Success

n Core part of EWB Culture

n August – downloads took off!

n NYT tweet led to retweets by people with 75,000 followers

n Notable status by Givewell (top 5%)

6 +African Program – 5 Firsts

1.  Hiring African Staff Members – investing more to support African leadership

2.  Partner $$$ - Demand for EWB services took off in 2010, over $200,000 committed through cost-sharing agreements with partners

3.  Dorothy’s Voice – breakthrough with CIDA in Ghana to bridge the gap

4.  $5 Million Pipeline of Requests – proposals to 10 different funders to support our work

7 +African Program – 5 Firsts

5.  Shining future for GR&I Program!!!

n  Aug 2009 – Scale up and phase out by Jan 2011

n  2010 - Amazing year! n  Impact per dollar invested largest of any teams n  Ghanaian gov’t selected GR&I solution to data

management to scale across all 170 districts in Ghana n  Asked to moderate senior level discussions n  Published a dozen briefing notes that have been read

1000 times n  PROGRAM EXTENDED!

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http://ewbgari.posterous.com/

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GR&I Successes this week! n We're meeting with the Ministry of Local Governance on

Monday to share our work

n Gave a presentation last week at the Monitoring and Evaluation Sector Working Group comprised of representatives from all Ministries and key Donors (Unicef, World Bank, CIDA, UNDP, etc.)

n We're writing a briefing paper on data system coordination challenges

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Looking Forward n Scale up should not done by EWB – role of government

system to sustain change

n Want districts to have capability to develop own data systems for evidence-based decision making, and hire consultants if demanded

n EWB will be the go-to organization for advising programs and policies around evidence-based decision making systems at districts