Summary: I believe that a donation to CHAT Africa could be one of the most effective donations you can make. A $30 donation may result in 1 DALY / QALY (Disability / Quality Adjusted Life Year), that is better than the $100 estimate for the Against Malaria Foundation.
Feel free to let me know how, why and to what extent I might be mistaken.
https://www.effectivegiving.nl/the-frameworks-and-tools-we-use/
1. Cause area (most important): Increasing access to family planning
2. Solution (second step in impact): Mostly in-expensive implants
3. Organisation team: Local Kenyan team
In practice you can use benchmarks to help decide where to give: https://www.effectivegiving.nl/growing-your-effectiveness-with-benchmarks/
The Against Malaria Foundation (‘AMF’) is considered one of the world’s most effective charities. The explanation for this is quite straight forward: AMF provides bednets that stop very young children (mostly under-5’s) dying prematurely from malaria. GiveWell estimates that roughly $3,500 donated to AMF saves a child’s life. More specifically, that $3,500 buys 35 ‘QALYs’ (Quality-Adjusted Life Years), which is more technical way of saying it creates 35 years of healthy life for the beneficiary.
Benchmark: $100 per Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY)
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Some math on http://www.chatafrica.org/ ( I can send you the spreadsheet, email: ajbrenninkmeijer@gmail.com )
CHAT Africa 2016 efficiently providing access to contraceptives to save the environment |
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| >> GRASS ROOTS << For Kenyans, by Kenyans | CHAT Africa | |||||||||||||
| People | Years access to contraceptives | Expected Value Couple Years of Protection | ||||||||||||
| 3-5 year implants | 20.000 | x | 4 | = | 80.000 | years | ||||||||
| 3 month injectable | 6.967 | x | 0,25 | = | 1.742 | years | ||||||||
| Pill (1 year? ) | 2.381 | x | 1 | = | 2.381 | years | ||||||||
| IUCD Device in uterus | 310 | x | 1 | ? | = | 310 | years | |||||||
| Condoms distributed | 117.800 | 0,008 | 120 units per CYP* | 982 | years | |||||||||
| With 2016 budget | 85.414 | Couple years of protection CYP | ||||||||||||
| *https://www.usaid.gov/what-we-do/global-health/family-planning/couple-years-protection-cyp | ||||||||||||||
| Budget 2016 | 33 million Kenyan Shillings = | € 270.000 | ||||||||||||
| Extra | ||||||||||||||
| Donation ? | € 200.000 | = 2 / 2,7 of 2016 years = | 63.270 | Possible extra years of access to contraceptives | ||||||||||
| 74% | higher Expected Value than research suggested | |||||||||||||
| CHAT Africa | ||||||||||||||
| "$ per bottom line" | 2016 Budget / Years access | € 270.000 | divided by | 85.414 | = | € 3,2 | per Couple Year of Protection "CYP" | |||||||
| "$ per bottom line" | Website "$5 or £3 will provide protection for 1 woman for 3 years against unwanted pregnancies."= | € 1,40 | per CYP ? | |||||||||||
| Website is marginal cost? "the cost added by producing one additional unit of a product or service." | ||||||||||||||
| DALY Disability Adjusted Life Year ratio 4,1 to CYP Couple Year Protection ? | Ratio by Guttmacher Institute found in a DFID research report | ||||||||||||||
| 35 DALY = 243 CYP Couple Years Protection = ratio 7 http://www.psi.org/wp-content/uploads/drupal/sites/default/files/publication_files/DALYs%20for%20FP%20final.pdf | |||||||||||||||
| Higher Ratio = 7 Couple Years of Protection = 1 DALY , cost per DALY is then €3,2 / CYP x 7 CYP/DALY = € 22 per DALY = roughly $30 per DALY | |||||||||||||||
A life = 35x a DALYear = $30 x 35 = $1 050 per life (death averted).
http://www.chatafrica.org/summary.html
Comments, questions or E-mails welcome: ajbrenninkmeijer@gmail.com
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