User:Vipul/GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly is a non-profit organization currently operating in Kenya that aims to help people living in extreme poverty by making unconditional cash transfers to them on a periodic basis. They claim that 90% of donor funds are utilized in the form of the actual cash transfers, with the remaining 10% being split between fees for money transfers and recipient identification costs.

GiveDirectly is partnering with Innovations for Poverty Action in a project funded by the National Institutes of Health in the United States to collect evidence on their operations that can be used to judge their effectiveness. They have pre-registered the study, identified what variables need to be measured, and also specified their predictions which can then be tested against the evidence collected.

External reviews and media mentions
Charity evaluator GiveWell has not yet published an official review of GiveDirectly, but they called GiveDirectly a "charity to watch" and called GiveDirectly's approach "one of the most intuitive ways of helping" in a blog post in July 2011.

GiveDirectly also received a positive mention on the Marginal Revolution economics blog.

GiveDirectly was featured in a story on National Public Radio. It also received mentions on the blog of the Center for Global Development and Time Magazine.