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 Water Access Rwanda does the thing almost nobody in the water sector does: it follows 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 Living Goods is one of a small handful of organizations in any sector that can point to randomized evidence on the outcome it exists to change. A 2019 trial randomized 214 villages across 10 Ugandan districts, evaluating a community health promoter program delivered by two organizations, Living Goods
Our Recommendation Pivot is one of the clearest examples of an organization that treated its own Theory of Change as a hypothesis and then spent a decade testing it. In 2014 Pivot established a baseline cohort of 1,600 households in Ifanadiana District, using the same sampling and survey methods