Children

Fund cash incentives for childhood vaccination

New Incentives runs a conditional cash-transfer programme in northern Nigeria, paying small cash incentives — about $9.50 total per infant — to caregivers to raise routine childhood immunisation rates in an area with historically low vaccine uptake. It is one of only four current GiveWell Top Charities. A GiveWell-funded IDinsight randomised evaluation found a 22-percentage-point increase in uptake of incentivized vaccines across three states.

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This is the fourth current GiveWell Top Charity on this site, alongside Malaria Consortium and Helen Keller Intl elsewhere here. Unlike most health interventions listed, this is literally a cash payment conditioned on a health behaviour — an unusual model, but one GiveWell estimates is roughly 22 times as cost-effective as GiveDirectly's unconditional cash transfers.

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