Our Recommendation Saprea measures the right things and has compared them against a group that did not receive the program. In a published study of 986 adult women survivors of child sexual abuse, the four-day retreat reduced post-traumatic stress symptoms and increased wellbeing, social support, and coping self-
Our Recommendation Development Media International (DMI) is a top-tier, rigorously evaluated behavior-change organization that meets and often exceeds our bar on intermediate and ultimate outcome evidence. It ran the first cluster randomized controlled trial to set all-cause child mortality as the primary outcome of a mass media
Our Recommendation CHANCEN International went looking for the people its model did not reach. Working with the University of Groningen, Chancen studied applicants from the 2022 and 2023 Rwandan cohorts who qualified for an Income Share Agreement but were turned away because spots ran out. Those people are the closest
Our Recommendation Last Mile Health helped the Liberian government design and launch a national community health worker program, then measured what it did. The intermediate results are strong and comparison-based. In Grand Bassa County, care of childhood illness by a qualified provider rose 60.3 percentage points more in
Homelessness is an ever increasing problem in the US. Chronic homelessness, those with mental health and addiction problems, seems impossible to address. The Other Side Village provides an innovative way that seems to be working on this intractable problem.
Charity says we dig wells to bring water to the developing world. That’s wrong. Meet Water Access Rwanda, a for-profit organization that does it right. They don’t just drill wells but treats, tests, maintains, and delivers safe water directly into people’s homes, just like the system you rely on.
What if the future of mental health didn’t depend on more doctors—but on empowering everyday people to care for each other? With an innovative model that trains near-peer counselors to deliver school-based, evidence-backed group sessions, Shamiri is reaching 100,000s.
Most global nutrition programs try to change how people eat—but behavior change rarely scales. Semilla Nueva or “New Seed” is enhancing the corn families already rely on through natural biofortification–boosting nutrition, farmer income, and child health across Guatemala and beyond.
