Our Recommendation We highly recommend Babban Gona for reducing food insecurity and helping farmers to improve their homes. Credible evidence exists on four of the five criteria, including one genuine counterfactual on yield and two measured ultimate outcomes. A propensity score matched study published by academics in Kaduna State, and
Our Recommendation The Other Side Village has a very clear articulated ultimate outcome. The organization states that it is trying to solve social isolation, hopelessness, and disconnection rather than just homelessness, and argues that placing someone in an apartment without rebuilding community, purpose, and self-belief may stabilize them temporarily
Our Recommendation Water Access Rwanda does the thing almost nobody in the water sector does: it followes its own causal chain past the tap. Most water organizations count people reached and liters delivered, and treat health as the obvious consequence. Water Access Rwanda's 2024 study found that 92.
Our Recommendation Ujamaa Africa belongs in the small group of organizations whose headline metric is not a proxy for an ultimate outcome but is one. Freedom from rape is personal security and bodily integrity, valued in itself, and Ujamaa has measured it against control groups across at least four cluster-
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.
