Published: October 2010

Engineers Without Borders focuses on "enabling rural Africans the opportunity to access clean water, generate an income from humble farms, and access critical infrastructure and services."1

This group deserves recognition for disclosing its failures. Its 2009 and 2010 failure reports are publicly and prominently published.2

We have not reviewed the work of Engineers Without Borders in depth, but we nevertheless commend it for clearly and publicly discussing its own shortcomings, and thereby creating more public information on the complexities of aid.

Sources

• Engineers Without Borders. African programs. http://www.ewb.ca/en/whatwedo/overseas/projects/index.html (accessed September 14, 2010). Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5sjTs05OF.
• Engineers Without Borders. Failure report (2009).
• Engineers Without Borders. Failure report (2010).
• Engineers Without Borders. Failure reports. http://www.ewb.ca/en/whoweare/accountable/failure.html (accessed September 14, 2010). Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5sjTbMxAf.
• Engineers Without Borders. Who we are. http://www.ewb.ca/en/whoweare/index.html (accessed September 14, 2010). Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/5sjTfswIR.
• GiveWell. The simplest way to improve your GiveWell rating: Disclose a failure.

• 1.

  Engineers Without Borders, "Who We Are." For more details, see Engineers Without Borders, "African Programs."

• 2.

  Engineers Without Borders, "Failure Reports."