Cause Area: International Development
A Moral Parliament Tool for Evaluating GiveWell Projects
Interventions to improve the effectiveness of government procurement
Impact of mosquito nets on fisheries
Research in Brief: Scientific capacity in sub-Saharan Africa
This post summarizes research that Rethink conducted in 2022 for into scientific capacity in sub-Saharan Africa. The main aim of...
Research in Brief: Vitamin A usage in different countries
This summary aims to understand whether and how the “double treatment” parameter in GiveWell’s model on vitamin A suppleme...
Road safety: Landscape of the problem and routes to effective policy advocacy
In 2019, there were about 1.2 million deaths due to road injuries—about 90% of which occurred in low- and middle-income countr...
An overview of market shaping in global health: Landscape, new developments, and gaps
This report provides an overview of how market shaping is typically used in global health, its recent track record, and ongoing ...
Family Empowerment Media: track record, cost-effectiveness, and main uncertainties
This commissioned report assesses the cost-effectiveness of nonprofit Family Empowerment Media (FEM) on behalf of an anonymous d...
Better weather forecasting
This report is a “shallow” investigation commissioned by Open Philanthropy. This primary focus of the report is to assess we...
Livelihood interventions: overview, evaluation, and cost-effectiveness
Researcher Ruby Dickson and Senior Environmental Economist Greer Gosnell investigated various interventions that may help very p...