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Effective Intervention was founded in 2005 by a group of academic economists with interests in development economics, health and international economic policy. We believe that there is room for better use of science, and rigorous analysis, in foreign aid programs.
We aim to reduce child mortality in poor regions of the
world:
Our first goal is to design
and implement aid projects to demonstrate effective, inexpensive means to
reduce child mortality in the developing world. We chose this as our focus
since there is good scientific evidence that it is possible to substantially
reduce child and infant death, and that the cost of doing this need not be
large. Despite such evidence, however, mortality levels remain extremely
high in many regions of the world.
Projects
We currently have five projects underway, four in the area
of child health and one in children’s education. We are working to reduce
child mortality in a region of Guinea-Bissau where 30% of children die
before the age of five. We are also working in tribal regions of Andhra
Pradesh, India, where 5-6% of children die before one month of age. Our
projects now cover over 500,000 people in India and Africa, and during 2007
we will be employing nearly 1,000 people, full-time and part-time, to implement
them. Every project includes a rigorous, pre-specified analysis plan, and
two of our projects are designed as large cluster-randomised controlled
trials.
Partners
We partner with local health professionals and governments,
along with many academic institutions, to design our interventions. We also
work closely with medical statisticians to write our statistical protocols
for research.
Financing and Donations
We have commitments from private donors to finance our
work. We do not plan to raise further funds until we have clear evidence of
efficacy from our ongoing projects.
Where Are We?
We are located in the Centre for Economic Performance in
the London School of Economics in London. We also have offices in
Guinea-Bissau in West Africa.
