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Evidence Action is a nonprofit that implements several evidence-based and cost-effective programs to combat global poverty.

Evaluation

Evidence Action’s Deworm the World Initiative program was a GiveWell top charity between 2013 and 2022. Their Dispensers for Safe Water program was a GiveWell standout charity from 2017 to 2021, when that designation was discontinued.

In the past, GiveWell also recommended Evidence Action’s No Lean Season program, which provided no-interest loans to poor rural households between planting and the major rice harvest in rural northern Bangladesh.[1] This recommendation was later discontinued following a disappointing 2017 study and the termination of Evidence Action’s partnership with the organization implementing the program.[2]

As of July 2022, Open Philanthropy has granted over $96 million to Evidence Action.[3]

The Life You Can Save features Evidence Action in their list of “best charities”.[4]

Further reading

GiveWell (2021) What is the relationship between Evidence Action and Deworm the World Initiative?, GiveWell.

Russell, Lauren (2021) The evidence to policy pipeline: How open policy analysis can transform deworming policy, Evidence Action, April 1.

External links

Evidence Action. Official website.

Apply for a job.

Donate to Evidence Action.

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Deworm the World Initiative | global poverty

  1. ^

    GiveWell (2018) Evidence Action’s No Lean Season, GiveWell, November (updated June 2019).

  2. ^

    Hollander, Catherine (2019) Evidence Action is shutting down No Lean Season, The GiveWell Blog, June 6 (updated 14 January 2020).

  3. ^

    Open Philanthropy (2021) Grants database: Evidence Action—Evidence Action Beta, Open Philanthropy.

  4. ^

    The Life You Can Save (2021) Best charities, The Life You Can Save.

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