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             You are hereHome » Giving Effectively » Giving 101 » Your Dollar Goes Further When You Fund the Right Program Your Dollar Goes Further When You Fund the Right Program     FacebookTwitter>Print>Email                   The previous page considered some of the cost differences between charities working in the United States and the developing world. But even charities working in the developing world can have dramatically different cost-effectiveness, depending on the type of intervention they're working on.

 Even among the programs we recommend, we estimate a range of cost-effectiveness that varies by 10x, although these estimates are subject to substantial uncertainty. 

 We believe that AMF's distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets may be roughly 4 times as cost-effective—in terms of improving or saving someone's life—compared to GiveDirectly's distribution of unconditional cash transfers. We look for giving opportunities in that range or better, which means that we don't have cost-effectiveness estimates for programs that are likely to be significantly worse. The table below (lightly adapted, originally published here) compares the cost-effectiveness of our top-recommended charities, as of our November 2016 estimate. Click here to learn more about our approach to estimating cost-effectiveness.

Program estimated cost-effectiveness (relative to cash transfers)  GiveDirectly Baseline Schistosomiasis Control Initiative ~8x Deworm the World Initiative ~10x Against Malaria Foundation ~4x Malaria Consortium ~4x Sightsavers ~5x The END Fund ~4x 

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