Better policies

save lives

$200 Billion is spent on development aid each year.

Let's spend it well.


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Aid saves many lives...

From eradicating polio to preventing millions of HIV infections, the history of global aid is filled with incredible achievements.

...but can save many more.

By prioritizing evidence-based policies and interventions, development aid holds the potential to save and improve more lives than ever before.

Our process

Our process

We conduct research to identify interventions and programs that are outliers in cost-effectiveness.

Research

Policy

We turn insights and best-practices from top-performing programs into actionable policies and recommendations.

We disseminate these insights and  perform policy advocacy

Outreach

Coordination

We convene leading experts and practitioners to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and best-practices.

The Center for Effective Aid Policy is an independent non profit organization based in the US and Europe which identifies and promotes high-impact development policies and interventions.


We are a team with varied backgrounds from government policy to aerospace engineering, passionate about bringing high quality research to decision makers and enable decisions to be made with the best available data and evidence at hand.

About us

Our process

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Research

We conduct research to identify interventions and programs that are outliers in cost-effectiveness.

Policy

We turn insights and best-practices from top-performing programs into actionable policies and recommendations.

Outreach

We disseminate these insights to decision-makers and advocate for policies which improve the effectiveness of aid.

Coordination

We convene leading experts and practitioners to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and best-practices.

Our recommendations are

We only recommend policies and interventions that cost-effectively save and improve lives at scale.

Cost-effective

Evidence-based

We base recommendations off the best available evidence and rigorous analysis. We value empirical evidence over political theory.

Our proposals are practical to implement and bring direct benefits to recipients.

Results-focused

Non-partisan

Our recommendations do not fit into a left- right-wing political spectrum. We exist to help recipients in developing countries, not governments and NGOs who facilitate aid.

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