Engineers Without Borders

Published purpose

This volunteer sending program supports the assignment of 96 volunteers who transfer project management and organizational support skills, such as monitoring and evaluation, and organizational diagnostics to partner organizations in developing countries. Interventions include: addressing different aspects of food security such as the availability of and access to food, as well as food transformation and storage; improving health through the provision of safe domestic water, sanitation and hygiene education; and facilitating the growth of rural small-scale enterprises to create opportunities for the rural population (mainly women) to generate an income outside of agriculture. The program’s public engagement component furthers the promotion of development awareness within Canada. An amount of $80,622 has been added to the total amount for each of the Volunteer Cooperation Agency programs for CIDA-led program evaluations.