Associate Director, Safe Water Now Africa in District Of Columbia

About the Safe Water team

Evidence Action’s Safe Water Now program provides safe drinking water to over 10 million people across rural Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya. Water treatment reduces all-cause child mortality by about 25%. We  deliver safe water in rural settings through two interventions; our Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) and newly launched In-Line Chlorination (ILC). Over the past two years, we’ve more than doubled our footprint in East and Southern Africa and are exploring expansion into new countries. We are also developing an innovation agenda through our Accelerator process to create next-generation safe water programs by defining problem statements, identifying solutions and designing creative interventions to test.

We are also launching an ambitious technical assistance program to help the government of India reach 17 million people with safe water, with plans to expand further. This supports India’s commitment to expand...