Our Recommendation Fika (formerly Bridges to Prosperity) has partnered with academic economists at Yale, Notre Dame, and the University of Colorado to conduct a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) across 147 sites in Rwanda, including 50 long-term control sites, specifically designed to produce causal estimates of impact across economic, agricultural,
Our Recommendation Educate! is an evidence-rich youth employment organization. Over fifteen years it has built an extraordinary list of rigorous evaluations. Four separate studies with counterfactual designs, including multiple Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs), across two programmatic models that consistently document large, durable, and causally attributed improvements in income, employment,
Our Recommendation COMACO (Community Markets for Conservation) is one of the most sophisticated and rigorously evaluated integrated conservation-development enterprises in Africa. Its model is genuinely distinctive. Rather than choosing between conservation and poverty alleviation, COMACO has built a self-reinforcing loop in which market incentives drive conservation compliance, conservation
Our Recommendation Chancen International stands out as a serious, learning‑oriented social finance organization that has built a clear theory of change around fair education finance for excluded African youth. They deliver very strong access, graduation, and employment results, and they already engage in counterfactual work that moves beyond feel‑