EWB's strategic aims:
1. Facilitate meaningful and lasting change
Together with our community partners, we strive to facilitate meaningful and lasting change through excellent development practices.
Objective 1.1: Increase capacity and resilience in the communities we work with, so they no longer need our technical assistance.
Objective 1.2: Develop long term relationships with our community partners based on mutual trust and respect.
Objective 1.3: Support our community partners to share knowledge and resources with other organisations.
Objective 1.4: Deepen and expand EWB’s impact in the regions in which we work, through placements and initiatives.
2. Engage individuals and organisations in meaningful volunteerism
We aim to engage individuals and organisations in community development by creating and promoting diverse opportunities for them to contribute effectively.
Objective 2.1: Create new pathways for individuals and organisations to participate in EWB’s work.
Objective 2.2: Increase the diversity of EWB’s active membership.
Objective 2.3: Support and promote volunteering with EWB.
3. Improve development engineering practices
We aspire to improve development engineering practices by bringing together the development and engineering sectors and sharing our knowledge broadly.
Objective 3.1: Reflect on and learn about development engineering from our own practices and the practices of others.
Objective 3.2: Share our knowledge, skills and resources within the engineering and development sectors.
Objective 3.3: Enable and promote 'development engineering' as a stream of engineering education and practice.
4. Nurture development leaders
We aim to inspire, educate and train a community of advocates and leaders in development through creative and engaging initiatives.
Objective 4.1: Facilitate member education and leadership development through an EWB journey.
Objective 4.2: Create an energised community of leaders who are well connected and supported in their work.
Objective 4.3: Celebrate success and acknowledge the achievements and contributions of EWB's volunteers, partners and supporters.
5. Be a small giant
We strive to act with integrity; upholding our values of community, sustainability, quality and respect in our governance, operations, relationships and culture.
Objective 5.1: Maintain a diverse support base which is resilient to external events.
Objective 5.2: Practice environmental stewardship in all aspects of our work.
Objective 5.3: Nurture the EWB culture and values.
Objective 5.4: Achieve quality in our operations and transparency in our governance.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams
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