GiveWell, the impact-focused charity evaluator, has dropped four deworming programs — a poster child of affordable development interventions — from its list of top charities that “save or improve lives the most per dollar.”
The organization that has built its reputation and significant financial clout by promising donors it will help them channel their money toward the most immediately impactful programs determined that deworming did not meet new criteria that also prioritizes a high likelihood of significant impact.
Acknowledging that there is too much uncertainty about the potential outcomes, GiveWell moved the deworming programs — run by The END Fund, Evidence Action, SCI Foundation, and Sightsavers — off the list in August.