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:
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