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Engineers Against Poverty


Engineers Against Poverty (EAP) is a specialist NGO working in the field of engineering and international development. It was established in 1998 by the UK’s leading professional Engineering Institutions, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Department for International Development (DFID). It is incorporated as a private company limited by guarantee and registered as a charity.

EAP works with industry, government and civil society to fight poverty and promote sustainable development.

A future in which poverty has been eliminated and the structures of inequality and disadvantage have been transformed so that all people are able to share the benefits of development.

Science, Engineering, Technology and Innovation (SETI) play a critical role in meeting the challenges of sustainable development and poverty reduction. EAP works with partners in industry, government and civil society to identify innovative ways for SETI policy and practice to enhance its contribution to addressing these global challenges.

EAP’s programme is focused in three key areas to achieve their organisational mission: infrastructure, the extractive industries (oil, gas & mining) and engineering education. Individual projects within these areas are undertaken in collaboration with strategic partners.

EAP’s programme is built on two propositions:

EAP has been working in partnership with the Institution of Civil Engineers to demonstrate how procurement can be used to increase local content (i.e. the proportion of goods, services and labour sourced locally) in public sector infrastructure projects. Together they conducted extensive research that culminated in the publication of a report entitled ‘Increasing local content in the procurement of infrastructure projects in low income countries’

A range of international agencies have made use of the knowledge contained in the report including the African Development Bank, OECD and the European Commission. In 2009–10 they will be developing systems to measure the impact of the improvements that we have been advocating.

ASPIRE is a software-based tool for planning, monitoring and evaluating the sustainability and poverty reduction performance of infrastructure projects in developing countries. It is the result of an innovative collaboration between EAP and Arup. The tool is used to identify gaps in project planning and to help project managers and other stakeholders maximise the positive social, economic and environmental benefits. It also contributes to the strategic and commercial objectives of users by providing a richer understanding of the risks and opportunities associated with their investments.


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