New Incentives is a charity that works in North West Nigeria to increase the uptake of routine immunizations through conditional cash transfers.

Evaluation

New Incentives has been a GiveWell top-rated charity since 2020.^[1] GiveWell estimates that New Incentives can vaccinate an infant at a cost of about $160, and that a donation to New Incentives has an average cost-effectiveness of $5,000 per life saved.^[2][3][4] (The cost of incentivizing a caregiver to complete a baby’s immunization schedule is much lower than the cost of saving a life because a small fraction of children who receive immunization would otherwise have died from the diseases that immunization confers protection against, and because of other factors.)^[3]

As of July 2022, New Incentives has received nearly $42 million in funding from Open Philanthropy,^[5] and is also featured in The Life You Can Save’s list of “best charities”.^[6]

Further reading

GiveWell (2020) New Incentives, GiveWell, November.

External links

New Incentives. Official website.

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Donate to New Incentives.

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   GiveWell (2020) New Incentives, GiveWell, November.

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   GiveWell (2022) Our top charities, GiveWell, July.

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   GiveWell (2022) How we produce impact estimates, GiveWell, July.

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   GiveWell (2022) GiveWell directed grants to top charities with impact information (2020 onward), GiveWell, July.

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   Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: New Incentives, Open Philanthropy.

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