Our Recommendation DMI is a top‑tier, rigorously evaluated behavior‑change organization that meets and often exceeds our bar on intermediate and ultimate outcome evidence, including a large‑scale RCT with child‑mortality effects. For a funder using our framework, DMI is a strong candidate for substantial support: their theory
Our Recommendation Friendship Bench Zimbabwe is a high‑performing, evidence‑rich mental‑health organization that squarely fits our framework: it has an explicit Theory of Change, a tightly aligned intervention, and multiple RCTs showing substantial improvements in depression and functioning, plus wellbeing‑based cost‑effectiveness estimates. If you want to
Our Recommendation Zvandiri is one of the few organizations that is both deeply grounded in lived experience and demonstrably effective. It has a peer‑led, adolescent‑focused HIV model with rare, gold‑standard randomized evidence on ultimate outcomes (viral failure and death) and strong emerging work on mental health, even
Our Recommendation Muso Health is a top‑tier choice for funders who prioritize rigorous evidence on ultimate health outcomes—especially child survival—combined with serious government partnership and system redesign. Their proactive care model has unusually strong counterfactual evidence for reducing under‑five mortality, but maternal and broader wellbeing outcomes