Steps toward Reconcili-ACTION at EWB, with Junior Fellow Kaitlyn Gillelan
Junior Fellow Kaitlyn Gillelan helped EWB launch the Reconcili-ACTION and Indigenous Engagement community team. In collaboration with our co...
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Spotlight on Rachel at Barcamp: Bringing people & ideas together in Ghana
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Youth mentoring youth: recognizing and investing in each other’s leadership
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Spotlight on Jory Wong: Piloting LishaBora’s partnerships with milk traders part of Kenya’s informal dairy sector
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GreenPath: Scaling sustainable farming
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Spotlight on Joy Wahba: Advocating for improved public funding of rural water services in Malawi
EWB sees policy and advocacy work as vital to progress within the development sector. It isn’t just the Canadian Government that needs...
Development Finance Institute: Pushing for progress and meeting milestones
Through our recommendations and outreach, EWB helped shape the operations of Canada’s new Development Finance Institution (DFI), FinDev...
Numida: Helping entrepreneurs track their finances and access small loans
Numida Technologies in Uganda rapidly iterated on their business over the past year and is on an exciting trajectory. Numida initially provi...