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Highlight: Malengo’s Academic Migration Program
The earnings somebody can anticipate to earn varies broadly primarily based on the place they stay. Around the globe, tens of millions of individuals transfer from lower-wage to higher-wage areas, both inside their residence nations or outdoors them, in hopes of constructing a greater dwelling for themselves and their households.
Many college students from lower-income nations wish to go to universities in high-income nations, however can’t afford to take action. They might additionally lack the non-financial assist and mentorship they would wish to efficiently full a level out of the country.
GiveWell just lately advisable a grant of as much as $750,000 to Malengo, an academic migration program that helps college students from low-income nations in shifting to high-income nations for college. The aim is to allow them to earn the next earnings over time, benefiting each the scholars and their households.
GiveWell is co-funding the grant with Open Philanthropy, which is contributing an equal quantity, for a complete of as much as $1.5 million over three years. Our newest weblog publish shares why we expect Malengo’s program could possibly be cost-effective, how filling this particular funding hole would possibly allow Malengo’s program to change into extra financially sustainable, and what we hope to study subsequent.
GiveWell within the Media
GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld was just lately interviewed by WIRED. Try the profile right here.
“[Donors] flip to us for confidence. They want confidence that there’s some distinction being made with their cash. A lot of our donors report this sense: There are such a lot of issues I might do on the market. How can I ever decide who’s reliable in making an impression?”
– Elie Hassenfeld, GiveWell CEO
Analysis Updates
We’ve just lately revealed a variety of new analysis pages—under are a couple of highlights. For those who’d like to join e mail updates every time we publish new analysis supplies, you are able to do so right here.
- Dimagi—CommCare Join Scoping
- In November 2023, GiveWell advisable a $49,722 planning grant to Dimagi to scope and develop a proposal for piloting its new healthcare platform, CommCare Join. This platform goals to extend the take-up of key healthcare commodities, similar to vitamin A supplementation and oral rehydration resolution. We predict CommCare Join could possibly be considerably above our cost-effectiveness bar; if the proposal seems promising, we might select to fund the proposed pilot.
- Worldwide Rescue Committee (IRC)—Acute Malnutrition Therapy
- In January 2024, GiveWell advisable a grant of roughly $7.5 million to the IRC to assist one 12 months of malnutrition therapy in Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Niger, and Somalia. We anticipate the IRC’s knowledge from further program monitoring and surveys to tell our estimate of this system’s cost-effectiveness and, in flip, our choice on whether or not to resume assist for a further 12 months.
- Prime Charities—Legibility Updates
- Final 12 months, our analysis workforce revised our high charity critiques and cost-effectiveness analyses to enhance their legibility, making it simpler for readers to interact with our work. We just lately revealed updates on the next pages:
