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CENTER FOR EFFECTIVE AID POLICY

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STARTED: Incubation Program 2022

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Jacob Wood
Co-founder and Director

SEED GRANT: $170,000

TEAM SIZE (Aug 2023): 3 + 5 volunteers

WEBSITE: http://aidpolicy.org/

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Mathias Bonde
Co-founder and Director

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$180 Billion is spent on development aid each year. Let's spend it well.

CURRENT OR PREDICTED IMPACT:

  • Past work may lead to marginal wins in future UK funding decisions at the project level

  • Current work may lead to improved cost-effectiveness of aid allocation in the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK

  • Future work may contribute to the health and competitiveness of the international aid ecosystem, advancing the effectiveness discourse and improving aid allocations across OECD DAC nations

  • Future work may lead to an improved pipeline of government aid to effective (EA aligned) implementation partners

COST-EFFECTIVENESS

  • Various opportunities for policy advocacy, as they arise, result in an approximate expected return of 50-100x cash transfers after discounting for a conservative (1-5%) probability of success

SIGNIFICANT UPDATES ON PROGRESS

  • Talk with GiveDirectly at EAGx Nordics

  • Drafted and submitted report on women and girls policy recommendations for UK 

  • Hosted panel debate with Danish MPs on the effectiveness of foreign aid

  • Submitted manifesto recommendations for UK political parties

  • Presented a workshop on aid effectiveness to His Majesty’s Treasury in the UK

  • Submitted manifesto recommendations for Dutch parties, signed by prominent Dutch figures such as Rutger Bregman

ROOM FOR MORE FUNDING IN 2023

  • An additional $50k would enable us to fund a well timed report on Dutch ODA for their newly formed government. We expect the opportunity behind this report and subsequent advocacy to be 30-90x cash.

  • Interested donors can reach out to talk to us directly at jacob.wood@aidolicy.org

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