Poverty reduction responses

Engineers Against Poverty (EAP) (http://www.engineersagainstpoverty.org/) is a UK based international development NGO committed to producing practical policies and innovative solutions to support the alleviation and eventual ending of world poverty. EAP does this through brokering and supporting multi-sector partnerships between the state, private and civil society sectors and by developing other innovative pro-poor engineering initiatives. EAP has special expertise in improving the corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes of engineering services companies.

EAP is supported by the following institutions:

·       Institution of Mechanical Engineers                                ·    Institution of Civil Engineers

·       Institution of Diesel and Gas Turbine Engineers            ·     Institution of Structural Engineers

·       Society of Operating Engineers                                      ·    South African Institution of Civil Engineering

·       Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)

Other major supporters of EAP include:

• AMEC                      ·        Anglo-American        ·       Balfour Beatty       ·      BHP Biliton
• British Telecom       ·        Thames Water             ·      Wardell Armstrong

 

Ron Watermeyer, the vice chairman of the JCD and a past president of SAICE, is a trustee of Engineers Against Poverty. (Further particulars may be found in the Report Back published in the February 2008 SAICE magazine