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'''Evidence Action''' is an American non-profit organization founded in 2013 that scales cost-effective development interventions with rigorous evidence supporting their efficacy.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |title=Evidence Action |url=https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/best-charities/evidence-action/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=The Life You Can Save |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> The organization operates four main programs: the [[Deworm the World Initiative]], Safe Water Now, Equal Vitamin Access, and Syphilis-Free Start.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |title=Using evidence to improve global well being |url=https://www.evidenceaction.org/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=Evidence Action |language=en-US}}</ref> It also operates an accelerator program, whereby new development interventions are screened and scaled according to efficacy.<ref name=":12" /> [[Vox Media]] has described Evidence Action as taking a "[[Venture capital|VC]] approach to development work".<ref name=":12" />
'''Evidence Action''' is an American non-profit organization founded in 2013 that scales cost-effective development interventions with rigorous evidence supporting their efficacy.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |title=Evidence Action |url=https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/best-charities/evidence-action/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=The Life You Can Save |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> The organization operates four main programs: the [[Deworm the World Initiative]], Safe Water Now, Equal Vitamin Access, and Syphilis-Free Start.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |title=Using evidence to improve global well being |url=https://www.evidenceaction.org/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=Evidence Action |language=en-US}}</ref> It also operates an accelerator program, whereby new development interventions are screened and scaled according to efficacy.<ref name=":12" /> [[Vox Media]] has described Evidence Action as taking a "[[Venture capital|VC]] approach to development work".<ref name=":12" />


Evidence Action has frequently been ranked as among the most effective charities in the world,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Piper |first=Kelsey |date=2020-10-16 |title=Which charities do the most good? Charity Navigator joins the effort to answer this crucial question. |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/10/16/21515488/charity-navigator-impact-matters-nonprofit |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Caviola |first=Lucius |last2=Greene |first2=Joshua D. |date=2023-01-20 |title=Boosting the impact of charitable giving with donation bundling and micromatching |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade7987 |journal=Science Advances |language=en |volume=9 |issue=3 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.ade7987 |issn=2375-2548 |pmc=PMC9848424 |pmid=36652510}}</ref> scaling programs in [[global health]] whose cost effectiveness is supported by [[Randomized controlled trial|randomized controlled trials]] or [[Quasi-experiment|quasi-experimental studies]].<ref name=":9" /> The charity is guided by principles of [[effective altruism]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bush |first=Stephen |date=2022-11-14 |title=FTX debacle casts an unforgiving light on effective altruism |url=https://www.ft.com/content/91c88d7c-b856-402a-ba0a-519b0e8825ff |access-date=2023-01-04 |work=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref> in particular the notion that charitable giving should be oriented towards the causes that do the most good in the world.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Singer |first=Peter |title=The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-300-18027-5 |publication-date=}}</ref>
Evidence Action has frequently been ranked as among the most effective charities in the world,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=2015-05-20 |title=Choosing where to donate to charity is tough. Here's a simple guide to help. |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/12/22/7434741/holiday-giving-charity-donation |access-date=2024-01-05 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Piper |first=Kelsey |date=2020-10-16 |title=Which charities do the most good? Charity Navigator joins the effort to answer this crucial question. |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/10/16/21515488/charity-navigator-impact-matters-nonprofit |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Caviola |first=Lucius |last2=Greene |first2=Joshua D. |date=2023-01-20 |title=Boosting the impact of charitable giving with donation bundling and micromatching |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade7987 |journal=Science Advances |language=en |volume=9 |issue=3 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.ade7987 |issn=2375-2548 |pmc=PMC9848424 |pmid=36652510}}</ref> scaling programs in [[global health]] whose cost effectiveness is supported by [[Randomized controlled trial|randomized controlled trials]] or [[Quasi-experiment|quasi-experimental studies]].<ref name=":9" /> The charity is guided by principles of [[effective altruism]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bush |first=Stephen |date=2022-11-14 |title=FTX debacle casts an unforgiving light on effective altruism |url=https://www.ft.com/content/91c88d7c-b856-402a-ba0a-519b0e8825ff |access-date=2023-01-04 |work=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref><ref name=":16" /> in particular the notion that charitable giving should be oriented towards the causes that do the most good in the world.<ref name=":16" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Singer |first=Peter |title=The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-300-18027-5 |publication-date=}}</ref> In 2022, the organization's revenue was $127 million [[USD]].<ref name=":17">{{Cite web |date=2023-10-12 |title=Consolidated Financial Statements: Evidence Action, Inc. and Affiliates |url=https://assets.evidenceaction.org/web/images/Evidence-Action-2022-Consolidated-FS.pdf |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=Evidence Action}}</ref>


== History ==
== History ==
Evidence Action was founded in 2013 as the parent organization for the [[Deworm the World Initiative]], an international deworming campaign co-founded by economists [[Kristin Forbes]], [[Michael Kremer]], [[Esther Duflo]], and [[Rachel Glennerster]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-05-27 |title=Deworming the world |url=https://news.mit.edu/2010/deworming-forbes |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |language=en}}</ref> In 2004, Kremer and co-author [[Edward Miguel]] published an impact evaluation of a school-based [[deworming]] campaign in [[Kenya]], showing that the program increased school attendance rates by 25% and improved overall health.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Miguel |first=Edward |last2=Kremer |first2=Michael |date=January 2004 |title=Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00481.x |journal=Econometrica |language=en |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=159–217 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00481.x |issn=0012-9682}}</ref> Kremer and [[Esther Duflo]] presented the findings of this and other research at the [[World Economic Forum]] in 2007, founding the [[Deworm the World Initiative]] as an independent organization to scale school-based deworming schemes.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=School-Based Deworming {{!}} IPA |url=https://poverty-action.org/school-based-deworming |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=poverty-action.org |language=en}}</ref> From 2010 to 2014, [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]] was incubated by [[Innovations for Poverty Action]], a non-profit research and policy organization advocating the use of rigorous impact evaluation in international development.<ref name=":0" />
Evidence Action was founded in 2013 as the parent organization for the [[Deworm the World Initiative]], an international deworming campaign co-founded by economists [[Kristin Forbes]], [[Michael Kremer]], [[Esther Duflo]], and [[Rachel Glennerster]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-05-27 |title=Deworming the world |url=https://news.mit.edu/2010/deworming-forbes |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |language=en}}</ref> In 2004, Kremer and co-author [[Edward Miguel]] published an impact evaluation of a school-based [[deworming]] campaign in [[Kenya]], showing that the program increased school attendance rates by 25% and improved overall health.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Miguel |first=Edward |last2=Kremer |first2=Michael |date=January 2004 |title=Worms: Identifying Impacts on Education and Health in the Presence of Treatment Externalities |url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00481.x |journal=Econometrica |language=en |volume=72 |issue=1 |pages=159–217 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00481.x |issn=0012-9682}}</ref> Kremer and [[Esther Duflo]] presented the findings of this and other research at the [[World Economic Forum]] in 2007, founding the [[Deworm the World Initiative]] as an independent organization to scale school-based deworming schemes.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=School-Based Deworming {{!}} IPA |url=https://poverty-action.org/school-based-deworming |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=poverty-action.org |language=en}}</ref> From 2010 to 2014, [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]] was incubated by [[Innovations for Poverty Action]], a non-profit research and policy organization advocating the use of rigorous impact evaluation in international development.<ref name=":0" />


In 2013, Evidence Action was founded to manage [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]]. Alix Zwane, Evidence Action's first executive director,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alix Peterson Zwane |url=https://www.globalinnovation.fund/team/ceo |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=Global Innovation Fund |language=en-US}}</ref> articulated the organization's mandate as being based on the "gap between what research shows is effective in global development and what is implemented in practice."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Zhang |first=Zara |date=2015-07-02 |title=Doing Good Scientifically |work=[[Harvard Magazine]] |url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/07/doing-good-scientifically |access-date=2023-11-21}}</ref> The organization is now run by Kanika Bahl, a former Executive Vice President of the [[Clinton Health Access Initiative]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last=McDonough |first=Siobhan |date=2022-10-20 |title=Kanika Bahl is finding the unicorns of international development |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23389952/future-perfect-50-kanika-bahl-evidence-action |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref> From 2013 to 2022, Evidence Action was ranked a top-rated charity by [[GiveWell]], considered among the best internationally for social impact per dollar spent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative – August 2022 version {{!}} GiveWell |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/deworm-world-initiative/August-2022-version |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.givewell.org |language=en}}</ref>
In 2013, Evidence Action was founded to manage [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]]. Alix Zwane, Evidence Action's first executive director,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alix Peterson Zwane |url=https://www.globalinnovation.fund/team/ceo |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=Global Innovation Fund |language=en-US}}</ref> articulated the organization's mandate as being based on the "gap between what research shows is effective in global development and what is implemented in practice."<ref name=":16">{{Cite news |last=Zhang |first=Zara |date=2015-07-02 |title=Doing Good Scientifically |work=[[Harvard Magazine]] |url=https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2015/07/doing-good-scientifically |access-date=2023-11-21}}</ref> The organization is now run by Kanika Bahl, a former Executive Vice President of the [[Clinton Health Access Initiative]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |last=McDonough |first=Siobhan |date=2022-10-20 |title=Kanika Bahl is finding the unicorns of international development |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23389952/future-perfect-50-kanika-bahl-evidence-action |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref> From 2013 to 2022, Evidence Action was ranked a top-rated charity by [[GiveWell]], considered among the best internationally for social impact per dollar spent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Evidence Action's Deworm the World Initiative – August 2022 version {{!}} GiveWell |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/deworm-world-initiative/August-2022-version |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.givewell.org |language=en}}</ref>


Many businesspeople, journalists, and prominent figures in the [[effective altruism]] movement have donated to or advocated for donating to Evidence Action, including [[Peter Singer]],<ref name=":3" /> [[Ezra Klein]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Klein |first=Ezra |date=2014-08-20 |title=Ezra Klein explains the ice bucket challenge |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/8/20/6049285/ezra-klein-als-ice-bucket-challenge |access-date=2023-01-04 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref> [[Nicholas Kristof]]<ref name=":10">{{Cite news |last=Kristof |first=Nicholas |date=2014-12-06 |title=Gifts that inspire |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-gifts-that-inspire.html |access-date=2023-01-04 |work=[[New York Times]]}}</ref>, [[Dustin Moskovitz]],<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Piper |first=Kelsey |date=2020-12-11 |title=The world’s problems overwhelmed me. This book empowered me. |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21561606/peter-singer-life-you-can-save-effective-altruism |access-date=2023-01-04 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref> and [[Cari Tuna]].<ref name=":4" />
Many businesspeople, journalists, and prominent figures in the [[effective altruism]] movement have donated to or advocated for donating to Evidence Action, including [[Peter Singer]],<ref name=":3" /> [[Ezra Klein]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Klein |first=Ezra |date=2014-08-20 |title=Ezra Klein explains the ice bucket challenge |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/8/20/6049285/ezra-klein-als-ice-bucket-challenge |access-date=2023-01-04 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref> [[Nicholas Kristof]]<ref name=":10">{{Cite news |last=Kristof |first=Nicholas |date=2014-12-06 |title=Gifts that inspire |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-gifts-that-inspire.html |access-date=2023-01-04 |work=[[New York Times]]}}</ref>, [[Dustin Moskovitz]],<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Piper |first=Kelsey |date=2020-12-11 |title=The world’s problems overwhelmed me. This book empowered me. |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21561606/peter-singer-life-you-can-save-effective-altruism |access-date=2023-01-04 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref> and [[Cari Tuna]].<ref name=":4" />

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== Funding ==
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According to [[ProPublica]], Evidence Action's annual expenses grew from less than $200,000 in 2013 to $22.4 million in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Brandon |last2=Suozzo |first2=Andrea |last3=Glassford |first3=Alec |last4=Ngu |first4=Ash |date=2013-05-09 |title=Evidence Action Inc - Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/900874591 |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}</ref> In 2022, their expenses reached $32.5 million, with total revenues exceeding $127 million.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-10-12 |title=Consolidated Financial Statements: Evidence Action, Inc. and Affiliates |url=https://assets.evidenceaction.org/web/images/Evidence-Action-2022-Consolidated-FS.pdf |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=Evidence Action}}</ref>
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[[File:Cari Tuna speaking at EA Global 2016.png|thumb|Cari Tuna, co-founder of [[Open Philanthropy]] and [[Good Ventures]]]]
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Evidence Action has been supported by many prominent organizations in the [[effective altruism]] movement. As of 2023, the charity has received over 20 distinct grants from [[Good Ventures]],<ref name=":14">{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Grants Archive |url=https://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=Good Ventures |language=en-US}}</ref> an American philanthropic organization founded by [[Cari Tuna]] and [[Dustin Moskovitz]] that distributes funds in line with recommendations from [[Open Philanthropy]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=2018-10-16 |title=You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do? |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/4/24/8457895/givewell-open-philanthropy-charity |access-date=2024-01-05 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref> [[Good Ventures]] made its largest grants in 2022, when $48.8 million was committed to Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program and an additional $14 million was earmarked for the charity's Accelerator scheme.<ref name=":14" />[[File:GiveWell logo.svg|thumb|Logo of [[GiveWell]], an American [[cause prioritization]] charity]]Evidence Action has also received 35 distinct grants from [[GiveWell]],<ref name=":15">{{Cite web |title=GiveWell Grants |url=https://airtable.com/appGuFtOIb1eodoBu/shr1EzngorAlEzziP/tblG72bMUu36lrWsr/viwJScgH8B6uRwJ8C?blocks=hide |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=GiveWell}}</ref> an American [[cause prioritization]] charity.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=2023-11-28 |title=I give 10 percent of my income to charity. You should, too. |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23976937/charity-giving-tuesday-givewell-ten-percent |access-date=2024-01-05 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref> The largest of these was distributed in 2022, when $64.7 million was committed to Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program.<ref name=":15" /> Between 2017 and 2018, [[GiveWell]] also committed over $29 million to the [[Deworm the World Initiative]].<ref name=":15" />
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In 2023, Evidence Action received a $1.27 million grant from the Weiss Asset Management Foundation to support the pilot of a water treatment program in [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-14 |title=Weiss Asset Management Foundation Awards Over $1.25 Million to Support Evidence Action’s Safe Water Pilot in India |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weiss-asset-management-foundation-awards-223100591.html |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=[[Yahoo Finance]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Evidence Action has also received support from the [[United States Agency for International Development]]'s Development Innovation Ventures scheme,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chlorine Dispensers: Bringing Safe Water to Scale |url=https://divportal.usaid.gov/s/project/a0gt0000000rW66AAE/chlorine-dispensers-bringing-safe-water-to-scale?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=[[US Agency for International Development]]}}</ref> and from the [[Astellas Pharma|Astellas]] Global Health Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Supporting Evidence Action’s Dispensers for Safe Water Program in Rural Uganda |url=https://www.astellasglobalhealthfoundation.org/SafeWaterProgram.html |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=Astellas Global Health Foundation}}</ref>


== Programs ==
== Programs ==
Evidence Action operates four distinct programs: [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]], Safe Water Now, Equal Vitamin Access, and Syphilis-Free Start.<ref name=":11" /> The first two of these were incubated by [[Innovations for Poverty Action]], and are implemented at-scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Evidence Action {{!}} InfoNTD |url=https://www.infontd.org/organization/evidence-action |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.infontd.org |language=en}}</ref> The latter two were launched via Evidence Action's accelerator program, whereby promising interventions are piloted and scaled conditional on performance.
Evidence Action operates four distinct programs: [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]], Safe Water Now, Equal Vitamin Access, and Syphilis-Free Start.<ref name=":11" /> The first two of these were incubated by [[Innovations for Poverty Action]], and are implemented at-scale.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Evidence Action {{!}} InfoNTD |url=https://www.infontd.org/organization/evidence-action |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=www.infontd.org |language=en}}</ref> The latter two were launched via Evidence Action's accelerator program, whereby promising interventions are piloted and scaled conditional on performance.<ref name=":12" />


=== Deworm the World ===
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Evidence Action's flagship program is [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]], a school-based deworming scheme active in [[Kenya]], [[India]], [[Nigeria]], and [[Pakistan]]. The [[Deworm the World Initiative]] was founded in 2007, in response to an experimental evaluation of a school-based deworming campaign in [[Busia, Kenya]]. After completing his undergraduate degree at [[Harvard University]],<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Michael Kremer CV |url=https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/0/2830/files/2022/04/MK-CV-Apr-2022_v2.pdf |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=University of Chicago}}</ref> [[Michael Kremer]] spent a year as a teacher and administrator at Eshisiru Secondary School in the [[Kakamega District]] of [[Kenya]].<ref name=":42">{{Cite web |date=January 1, 2005 |orig-date=Originally published July 1, 1997 |title=Michael Robert Kremer |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/556/ |access-date=July 23, 2018 |website=macfound.org |publisher=[[MacArthur Foundation]] |language=en}}</ref> He returned to the area on vacation with his wife [[Rachel Glennerster]] after completing his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]], where he learned of a friend's plan to roll-out [[deworming]] medications in local schools.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |title=Michael Kremer's Nobel Fight Against Global Poverty {{!}} Magazine {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/10/24/michael-kremer/ |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref> He was inspired to conduct a [[randomized controlled trial]] of the scheme, rolling out treatments in 1998.<ref name=":5" /> In 2004, he published the results of the study in [[Econometrica]] alongside [[Edward Miguel]], his co-author and PhD student.<ref name=":5" />
Evidence Action's flagship program is [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]], a school-based deworming scheme active in [[Kenya]], [[India]], [[Nigeria]], and [[Pakistan]]. The [[Deworm the World Initiative]] was founded in 2007, in response to an experimental evaluation of a school-based deworming campaign in [[Busia, Kenya]]. After completing his undergraduate degree at [[Harvard University]],<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |title=Michael Kremer CV |url=https://bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicago.edu/dist/0/2830/files/2022/04/MK-CV-Apr-2022_v2.pdf |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=University of Chicago}}</ref> [[Michael Kremer]] spent a year as a teacher and administrator at Eshisiru Secondary School in the [[Kakamega District]] of [[Kenya]].<ref name=":42">{{Cite web |date=January 1, 2005 |orig-date=Originally published July 1, 1997 |title=Michael Robert Kremer |url=https://www.macfound.org/fellows/556/ |access-date=July 23, 2018 |website=macfound.org |publisher=[[MacArthur Foundation]] |language=en}}</ref> He returned to the area on vacation with his wife [[Rachel Glennerster]] after completing his [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]], where he learned of a friend's plan to roll-out [[deworming]] medications in local schools.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |title=Michael Kremer's Nobel Fight Against Global Poverty {{!}} Magazine {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/10/24/michael-kremer/ |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref> He was inspired to conduct a [[randomized controlled trial]] of the scheme, rolling out treatments in 1998.<ref name=":5" /> In 2004, he published the results of the study in [[Econometrica]] alongside [[Edward Miguel]], his co-author and PhD student.<ref name=":5" />


The results of the study indicated that [[deworming]] is a cost effective means of improving health and education outcomes, raising school attendance rates by 25%.<ref name=":5" /> Results from the experiment were presented by Kremer and [[Esther Duflo]] at the [[World Economic Forum]] in 2007, inspiring the creation of the [[Deworm the World Initiative]], an international deworming campaign incubated by [[Innovations for Poverty Action]].<ref name=":0" />
The results of the study indicated that [[deworming]] is a cost effective means of improving health and education outcomes, raising school attendance rates by 25%.<ref name=":5" /> The study's treatment effects suggested that for each $100 spent on deworming, students would collectively gain another 13.9 years of schooling.<ref name=":18">{{Cite journal |last=Gugerty |first=Mary Kay |last2=Karlan |first2=Dean |date=2018-05-24 |title=Deworm the World |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199366088.003.0012 |journal=The Goldilocks Challenge: Right-Fit Evidence for the Social Sector |doi=10.1093/oso/9780199366088.003.0012}}</ref> Results from the experiment were presented by Kremer and [[Esther Duflo]] at the [[World Economic Forum]] in 2007, inspiring the creation of the [[Deworm the World Initiative]], an international deworming campaign incubated by [[Innovations for Poverty Action]].<ref name=":0" /> In 2009, [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]] began working with the [[Kenya|Kenyan]] government to train teachers and other school employees to administer oral [[deworming]] treatments to students.<ref name=":18" /> In 2012, a full-scale roll-out was launched, with treatments administered in a series of "deworming days" across the country.<ref name=":18" /> A similar campaign was launched in [[India]], where [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]] supported preliminary surveys of the worm burdens across various Indian states<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Singh |first=Sarman |date=2023 |title=Deworm the World Initiative: How much Progress India has Made? |url=https://jlabphy.org/deworm-the-world-initiative-how-much-progress-india-has-made/ |journal=Journal of Laboratory Physicians |language=en |volume=15 |issue=01 |pages=001–003 |doi=10.1055/s-0042-1760408 |issn=0974-2727 |pmc=PMC10104701 |pmid=37064991}}</ref> and helped rolled-out treatment to over 17 million children in the state of [[Bihar]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deworm the World helps make history in Bihar, India {{!}} IPA |url=https://poverty-action.org/deworm-world-helps-make-history-bihar-india |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=poverty-action.org |language=en}}</ref> In 2013, Evidence Action was founded to manage and scale the [[Deworm the World Initiative]].<ref name=":16" />

Since the initial rollout of [[Deworm the World Initiative|Deworm the World]], Kremer and Miguel's findings have been challenged


=== Safe Water Now ===
=== Safe Water Now ===
Evidence Action also operates a point-of-collection water chlorination program called "Safe Water Now". The scheme was incubated by [[Innovations for Poverty Action]], and was founded in response to a series of [[randomized controlled trial|randomized controlled trials]] conducted by [[Michael Kremer]], [[Edward Miguel]], [[Sendhil Mullainathan]], Clair Null, and Alix Zwane in [[Kenya]] between 2004 and 2010.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Kremer |first=Michael |last2=Miguel |first2=Edward |last3=Mullainathan |first3=Sendhil |last4=Null |first4=Clair |last5=Zwane |first5=Alix |date=2011 |title=Social Engineering: Evidence from a Suite of Take-up Experiments in Kenya |url=https://poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publications/chlorinedispensers.pdf |access-date=2023-01-04}}</ref> The [[Randomized controlled trial|RCT]] found that a combination of local advertising campaigns and chlorine distribution systems strategically located near water wells can improve household's treatment of water.<ref name=":6" /> Subsequent work by Kremer, [[Johannes Haushofer]], Ricardo Maertens, and Brandon Joel Tan showed that this increase in chlorination take-up translated into reduced child mortality, with treatment causing a reduction in child (i.e. under five) mortality of 1.4 percentage points, a 63% decline from baseline.<ref name=":1">{{Cite report |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w29447 |title=Water Treatment and Child Mortality: Evidence from Kenya |last=Haushofer |first=Johannes |last2=Kremer |first2=Michael |date=November 2021 |publisher=National Bureau of Economic Research |location=Cambridge, MA |last3=Maertens |first3=Ricardo |last4=Tan |first4=Brandon Joel}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=2021-11-13 |title=How a simple solution slashed child mortality in rural Kenyan villages |url=https://www.vox.com/22778286/child-mortality-kenya-chlorine-clean-water |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref> The program was found to significantly exceed [[World Health Organization]] cost effectiveness standards, and was identified by Evidence Action as a scalable, low cost, and high impact intervention, saving lives for an estimated $1,941.<ref name=":2" />
Evidence Action also operates a point-of-collection water chlorination program called "Safe Water Now". The scheme was incubated by [[Innovations for Poverty Action]], and was founded in response to a series of [[randomized controlled trial|randomized controlled trials]] conducted by [[Michael Kremer]], [[Edward Miguel]], [[Sendhil Mullainathan]], Clair Null, and Alix Zwane in [[Kenya]] between 2004 and 2010.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Kremer |first=Michael |last2=Miguel |first2=Edward |last3=Mullainathan |first3=Sendhil |last4=Null |first4=Clair |last5=Zwane |first5=Alix |date=2011 |title=Social Engineering: Evidence from a Suite of Take-up Experiments in Kenya |url=https://poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publications/chlorinedispensers.pdf |access-date=2023-01-04}}</ref> The [[Randomized controlled trial|RCT]] found that a combination of local advertising campaigns and chlorine distribution systems strategically located near water wells increased the likelihood that households treated their water.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Costerr |first=Helen |date=2014-05-14 |title=Peer Pressure Can Be a Lifesaver |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/peer-pressure-can-be-a-lifesaver/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |work=[[New York Times]]}}</ref> Subsequent work by Kremer, [[Johannes Haushofer]], Ricardo Maertens, and Brandon Joel Tan showed that this increase in chlorination take-up translated into reduced child mortality, with treatment causing a reduction in child (i.e. under five) mortality of 1.4 percentage points, a 63% decline from baseline.<ref name=":1">{{Cite report |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w29447 |title=Water Treatment and Child Mortality: Evidence from Kenya |last=Haushofer |first=Johannes |last2=Kremer |first2=Michael |date=November 2021 |publisher=National Bureau of Economic Research |location=Cambridge, MA |last3=Maertens |first3=Ricardo |last4=Tan |first4=Brandon Joel}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=2021-11-13 |title=How a simple solution slashed child mortality in rural Kenyan villages |url=https://www.vox.com/22778286/child-mortality-kenya-chlorine-clean-water |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Vox |language=en}}</ref> The program was found to significantly exceed [[World Health Organization]] cost effectiveness standards, and was identified by Evidence Action as a scalable, low cost, and high impact intervention, saving lives for an estimated $1,941.<ref name=":2" /> A subsequent [[meta-analysis]] of 52 [[Randomized controlled trial|RCTs]] by [[Michael Kremer]] and co-authors confirmed this result, showing that water chlorination saves [[Disability-adjusted life year|disability adjusted life years]] at a cost of approximately $40.<ref>{{Citation |last=Kremer |first=Michael |title=Water Treatment And Child Mortality: A Meta-Analysis And Cost-effectiveness Analysis |date=2023 |url=https://www.nber.org/papers/w30835 |type=Working Paper |access-date=2024-01-05 |series=NBER Working Paper Series |doi=10.3386/w30835 |last2=Luby |first2=Stephen P. |last3=Maertens |first3=Ricardo |last4=Tan |first4=Brandon |last5=Więcek |first5=Witold}}</ref>


As of mid-2019, Safe Water Now provided chlorination services to 4 million people,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chlorine Dispensers for Safe Water {{!}} IPA |url=https://poverty-action.org/chlorine-dispensers-safe-water |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=poverty-action.org |language=en}}</ref> a number that has grown to over 10 million in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Safe Water Now |url=https://www.evidenceaction.org/programs/safe-water-now |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Evidence Action |language=en-US}}</ref> Upon winning the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] in 2019, [[Michael Kremer]] selected an Evidence Action chlorine dispenser for display in the [[Nobel Prize Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Glennerster |first=Rachel |date=2019-12-06 |title=Michael is handing over a chlorine dispenser from @EvidenceAction to #nobel museum to illustrate how behaviour econ insights have led to new innovations. The dispenser is salient, next to water source, convincing, free, and helps for habits. |url=https://twitter.com/rglenner/status/1202873222892523521?lang=en |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=[[X]]}}</ref>
As of mid-2019, Safe Water Now provided chlorination services to 4 million people,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chlorine Dispensers for Safe Water {{!}} IPA |url=https://poverty-action.org/chlorine-dispensers-safe-water |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=poverty-action.org |language=en}}</ref> a number that has grown to over 10 million in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Safe Water Now |url=https://www.evidenceaction.org/programs/safe-water-now |access-date=2023-11-27 |website=Evidence Action |language=en-US}}</ref> Upon winning the [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]] in 2019, [[Michael Kremer]] selected an Evidence Action chlorine dispenser for display in the [[Nobel Prize Museum]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Glennerster |first=Rachel |date=2019-12-06 |title=Michael is handing over a chlorine dispenser from @EvidenceAction to #nobel museum to illustrate how behaviour econ insights have led to new innovations. The dispenser is salient, next to water source, convincing, free, and helps for habits. |url=https://twitter.com/rglenner/status/1202873222892523521?lang=en |access-date=2023-01-04 |website=[[X]]}}</ref>
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=== No Lean Season ===
=== No Lean Season ===
Farm 2016 to 2018, Evidence Action ran an additional program called "No Lean Season" that offered financial incentives to [[Bangladesh|Bangladeshi]] farm workers to migrate to nearby cities during agricultural off seasons (typically September through November). The scheme was scaled up to 699 villages after the success of a small-scale [[Randomized controlled trial|RCT]] of a similar program, conducted by Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, and [[Mushfiq Mobarak]] and published in [[Econometrica]].<ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |date=2014 |title=Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/ecta10489 |journal=Econometrica |volume=82 |issue=5 |pages=1671–1748 |doi=10.3982/ecta10489 |issn=0012-9682}}</ref> The trial showed that giving rural laborers an $8.50 incentive to migrate to nearby cities for work during agricultural off seasons increased incomes of households that send seasonal migrants, and raised the likelihood of migration in future years (even if incentives were not actively provided).<ref name=":7" />
Farm 2016 to 2018, Evidence Action ran an additional program called "No Lean Season" that offered financial incentives to [[Bangladesh|Bangladeshi]] farm workers to migrate to nearby cities during agricultural off seasons (typically September through November). The scheme was scaled up to 699 villages after the success of a small-scale [[Randomized controlled trial|RCT]] of a similar program, conducted by Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, and [[Mushfiq Mobarak]] and published in [[Econometrica]].<ref name=":7">{{Cite journal |date=2014 |title=Underinvestment in a Profitable Technology: The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3982/ecta10489 |journal=Econometrica |volume=82 |issue=5 |pages=1671–1748 |doi=10.3982/ecta10489 |issn=0012-9682}}</ref> The trial showed that giving rural laborers an $8.50 incentive to migrate to nearby cities for work during agricultural off seasons increased incomes of households that send seasonal migrants, and raised the likelihood of migration in future years (even if incentives were not actively provided).<ref name=":7" />

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== Funding ==
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According to [[ProPublica]], Evidence Action's annual expenses grew from less than $200,000 in 2013 to $22.4 million in 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Brandon |last2=Suozzo |first2=Andrea |last3=Glassford |first3=Alec |last4=Ngu |first4=Ash |date=2013-05-09 |title=Evidence Action Inc - Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/900874591 |access-date=2024-01-04 |website=ProPublica |language=en}}</ref> In 2022, their expenses reached $32.5 million, with total revenues exceeding $127 million.<ref name=":17" />
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[[File:Cari Tuna speaking at EA Global 2016.png|thumb|Cari Tuna, co-founder of [[Open Philanthropy]] and [[Good Ventures]]]]
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Evidence Action has been supported by many prominent organizations in the [[effective altruism]] movement. As of 2023, the charity has received over 20 distinct grants from [[Good Ventures]],<ref name=":14">{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Grants Archive |url=https://www.goodventures.org/our-portfolio/ |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=Good Ventures |language=en-US}}</ref> an American philanthropic organization founded by [[Cari Tuna]] and [[Dustin Moskovitz]] that distributes funds in line with recommendations from [[Open Philanthropy]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=2018-10-16 |title=You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do? |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/4/24/8457895/givewell-open-philanthropy-charity |access-date=2024-01-05 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref> [[Good Ventures]] made its largest grants in 2022, when $48.8 million was committed to Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program and an additional $14 million was earmarked for the charity's Accelerator scheme.<ref name=":14" />[[File:GiveWell logo.svg|thumb|Logo of [[GiveWell]], an American [[cause prioritization]] charity]]Evidence Action has also received 35 distinct grants from [[GiveWell]],<ref name=":15">{{Cite web |title=GiveWell Grants |url=https://airtable.com/appGuFtOIb1eodoBu/shr1EzngorAlEzziP/tblG72bMUu36lrWsr/viwJScgH8B6uRwJ8C?blocks=hide |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=GiveWell}}</ref> an American [[cause prioritization]] charity.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Matthews |first=Dylan |date=2023-11-28 |title=I give 10 percent of my income to charity. You should, too. |url=https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23976937/charity-giving-tuesday-givewell-ten-percent |access-date=2024-01-05 |work=[[Vox]]}}</ref> The largest of these was distributed in 2022, when $64.7 million was committed to Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program.<ref name=":15" /> Between 2017 and 2018, [[GiveWell]] also committed over $29 million to the [[Deworm the World Initiative]].<ref name=":15" />
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In 2023, Evidence Action received a $1.27 million grant from the Weiss Asset Management Foundation to support the pilot of a water treatment program in [[India]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-14 |title=Weiss Asset Management Foundation Awards Over $1.25 Million to Support Evidence Action’s Safe Water Pilot in India |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/weiss-asset-management-foundation-awards-223100591.html |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=[[Yahoo Finance]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Evidence Action has also received support from the [[United States Agency for International Development]]'s Development Innovation Ventures scheme,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chlorine Dispensers: Bringing Safe Water to Scale |url=https://divportal.usaid.gov/s/project/a0gt0000000rW66AAE/chlorine-dispensers-bringing-safe-water-to-scale?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=[[US Agency for International Development]]}}</ref> and from the [[Astellas Pharma|Astellas]] Global Health Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Supporting Evidence Action’s Dispensers for Safe Water Program in Rural Uganda |url=https://www.astellasglobalhealthfoundation.org/SafeWaterProgram.html |access-date=2024-01-05 |website=Astellas Global Health Foundation}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==

Revision as of 19:52, 5 January 2024

Evidence Action
PredecessorDeworm the World
Formation2013
FounderAmrita Ahuja
Legal status501(c)3
HeadquartersWashington, DC
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
East Africa
ServicesDeworming
Water chlorination
Iron supplementation
Syphilis screening
FieldsInternational development
Global health
CEO
Kanika Bahl
Shikhar Ghosh (Chair)
Amrita Ahuja
Kanika Bahl
Elizabeth Young McNally
Christina Reichers
Dina Pomeranz
Owens Wiwa
Key people
Michael Kremer
Esther Duflo
Rachel Glennerster
Kristin Forbes
Revenue (2022)
$127 Million USD
Expenses (2022)$32.5 Million USD
Staff (2023)
700+
Websitehttps://www.evidenceaction.org/

Evidence Action is an American non-profit organization founded in 2013 that scales cost-effective development interventions with rigorous evidence supporting their efficacy.[1][2] The organization operates four main programs: the Deworm the World Initiative, Safe Water Now, Equal Vitamin Access, and Syphilis-Free Start.[3] It also operates an accelerator program, whereby new development interventions are screened and scaled according to efficacy.[4] Vox Media has described Evidence Action as taking a "VC approach to development work".[4]

Evidence Action has frequently been ranked as among the most effective charities in the world,[5][6][7] scaling programs in global health whose cost effectiveness is supported by randomized controlled trials or quasi-experimental studies.[1] The charity is guided by principles of effective altruism,[8][9] in particular the notion that charitable giving should be oriented towards the causes that do the most good in the world.[9][10] In 2022, the organization's revenue was $127 million USD.[11]

History

Evidence Action was founded in 2013 as the parent organization for the Deworm the World Initiative, an international deworming campaign co-founded by economists Kristin Forbes, Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo, and Rachel Glennerster.[12] In 2004, Kremer and co-author Edward Miguel published an impact evaluation of a school-based deworming campaign in Kenya, showing that the program increased school attendance rates by 25% and improved overall health.[13] Kremer and Esther Duflo presented the findings of this and other research at the World Economic Forum in 2007, founding the Deworm the World Initiative as an independent organization to scale school-based deworming schemes.[14] From 2010 to 2014, Deworm the World was incubated by Innovations for Poverty Action, a non-profit research and policy organization advocating the use of rigorous impact evaluation in international development.[14]

In 2013, Evidence Action was founded to manage Deworm the World. Alix Zwane, Evidence Action's first executive director,[15] articulated the organization's mandate as being based on the "gap between what research shows is effective in global development and what is implemented in practice."[9] The organization is now run by Kanika Bahl, a former Executive Vice President of the Clinton Health Access Initiative.[4] From 2013 to 2022, Evidence Action was ranked a top-rated charity by GiveWell, considered among the best internationally for social impact per dollar spent.[16]

Many businesspeople, journalists, and prominent figures in the effective altruism movement have donated to or advocated for donating to Evidence Action, including Peter Singer,[10] Ezra Klein,[17] Nicholas Kristof[2], Dustin Moskovitz,[18] and Cari Tuna.[18]

Programs

Evidence Action operates four distinct programs: Deworm the World, Safe Water Now, Equal Vitamin Access, and Syphilis-Free Start.[3] The first two of these were incubated by Innovations for Poverty Action, and are implemented at-scale.[19] The latter two were launched via Evidence Action's accelerator program, whereby promising interventions are piloted and scaled conditional on performance.[4]

Deworm the World

Michael Kremer, co-author of "Worms"
Edward Miguel, co-author of "Worms"

Evidence Action's flagship program is Deworm the World, a school-based deworming scheme active in Kenya, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan. The Deworm the World Initiative was founded in 2007, in response to an experimental evaluation of a school-based deworming campaign in Busia, Kenya. After completing his undergraduate degree at Harvard University,[20] Michael Kremer spent a year as a teacher and administrator at Eshisiru Secondary School in the Kakamega District of Kenya.[21] He returned to the area on vacation with his wife Rachel Glennerster after completing his PhD, where he learned of a friend's plan to roll-out deworming medications in local schools.[22] He was inspired to conduct a randomized controlled trial of the scheme, rolling out treatments in 1998.[13] In 2004, he published the results of the study in Econometrica alongside Edward Miguel, his co-author and PhD student.[13]

The results of the study indicated that deworming is a cost effective means of improving health and education outcomes, raising school attendance rates by 25%.[13] The study's treatment effects suggested that for each $100 spent on deworming, students would collectively gain another 13.9 years of schooling.[23] Results from the experiment were presented by Kremer and Esther Duflo at the World Economic Forum in 2007, inspiring the creation of the Deworm the World Initiative, an international deworming campaign incubated by Innovations for Poverty Action.[14] In 2009, Deworm the World began working with the Kenyan government to train teachers and other school employees to administer oral deworming treatments to students.[23] In 2012, a full-scale roll-out was launched, with treatments administered in a series of "deworming days" across the country.[23] A similar campaign was launched in India, where Deworm the World supported preliminary surveys of the worm burdens across various Indian states[24] and helped rolled-out treatment to over 17 million children in the state of Bihar.[25] In 2013, Evidence Action was founded to manage and scale the Deworm the World Initiative.[9]

Since the initial rollout of Deworm the World, Kremer and Miguel's findings have been challenged

Safe Water Now

Evidence Action also operates a point-of-collection water chlorination program called "Safe Water Now". The scheme was incubated by Innovations for Poverty Action, and was founded in response to a series of randomized controlled trials conducted by Michael Kremer, Edward Miguel, Sendhil Mullainathan, Clair Null, and Alix Zwane in Kenya between 2004 and 2010.[26] The RCT found that a combination of local advertising campaigns and chlorine distribution systems strategically located near water wells increased the likelihood that households treated their water.[26][27] Subsequent work by Kremer, Johannes Haushofer, Ricardo Maertens, and Brandon Joel Tan showed that this increase in chlorination take-up translated into reduced child mortality, with treatment causing a reduction in child (i.e. under five) mortality of 1.4 percentage points, a 63% decline from baseline.[28][29] The program was found to significantly exceed World Health Organization cost effectiveness standards, and was identified by Evidence Action as a scalable, low cost, and high impact intervention, saving lives for an estimated $1,941.[29] A subsequent meta-analysis of 52 RCTs by Michael Kremer and co-authors confirmed this result, showing that water chlorination saves disability adjusted life years at a cost of approximately $40.[30]

As of mid-2019, Safe Water Now provided chlorination services to 4 million people,[31] a number that has grown to over 10 million in 2023.[32] Upon winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019, Michael Kremer selected an Evidence Action chlorine dispenser for display in the Nobel Prize Museum.[33]

Syphillis-Free Start

Evidence Action also operates two additional programs, launched through its venture capital Accelerator program. One of these, Syphillis-Free Start, aims to expand testing for syphilis in pregnant women, a cause of birth complications and childhood disability. Syphillis testing costs $0.35

No Lean Season

Farm 2016 to 2018, Evidence Action ran an additional program called "No Lean Season" that offered financial incentives to Bangladeshi farm workers to migrate to nearby cities during agricultural off seasons (typically September through November). The scheme was scaled up to 699 villages after the success of a small-scale RCT of a similar program, conducted by Gharad Bryan, Shyamal Chowdhury, and Mushfiq Mobarak and published in Econometrica.[34] The trial showed that giving rural laborers an $8.50 incentive to migrate to nearby cities for work during agricultural off seasons increased incomes of households that send seasonal migrants, and raised the likelihood of migration in future years (even if incentives were not actively provided).[34]

Funding

According to ProPublica, Evidence Action's annual expenses grew from less than $200,000 in 2013 to $22.4 million in 2021.[35] In 2022, their expenses reached $32.5 million, with total revenues exceeding $127 million.[11]

Cari Tuna, co-founder of Open Philanthropy and Good Ventures

Evidence Action has been supported by many prominent organizations in the effective altruism movement. As of 2023, the charity has received over 20 distinct grants from Good Ventures,[36] an American philanthropic organization founded by Cari Tuna and Dustin Moskovitz that distributes funds in line with recommendations from Open Philanthropy.[37] Good Ventures made its largest grants in 2022, when $48.8 million was committed to Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program and an additional $14 million was earmarked for the charity's Accelerator scheme.[36]

Logo of GiveWell, an American cause prioritization charity

Evidence Action has also received 35 distinct grants from GiveWell,[38] an American cause prioritization charity.[39] The largest of these was distributed in 2022, when $64.7 million was committed to Evidence Action's Dispensers for Safe Water program.[38] Between 2017 and 2018, GiveWell also committed over $29 million to the Deworm the World Initiative.[38]

In 2023, Evidence Action received a $1.27 million grant from the Weiss Asset Management Foundation to support the pilot of a water treatment program in India.[40] Evidence Action has also received support from the United States Agency for International Development's Development Innovation Ventures scheme,[41] and from the Astellas Global Health Foundation.[42]

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