Our Recommendation
Ubongo is a high‑leverage, evidence‑aware edutainment organization with credible counterfactual evidence on core intermediate outcomes, early‑learning skills, financial literacy, and some socio‑emotional and gender‑equity indicators. It also has exceptional reach across African households. They do well‑designed studies, quasi‑experimental designs, and a
Our Recommendation
Precision Development (PxD) is a high‑rigor, highly aligned organization for our framework at the intermediate‑outcome level: it runs multiple RCTs, has a public experiment registry, and reports sizable, counterfactual income and adoption impacts for tens of millions of farmers.
Precision Development's Fierce Certification score
Our Recommendation
Imagine Worldwide is a high‑promise, evidence‑oriented, learning organization that meets our bar on rigorous counterfactual evidence for key intermediate outcomes (literacy and numeracy), with a scalable delivery model tailored to extremely low‑resource African contexts.
Imagine Worldwide's Fierce Certification score is 90/100 based
Our Recommendation
Suvita is a strong children's health organization due to its cost‑effective, evidence‑grounded immunization “last‑mile” work with genuine randomized controlled trial backing for its core approach. Its model directly replicates and scales a Nobel Prize‑winning randomized controlled trial on immunization ambassadors and SMS
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.
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