we feel substantially confident in the recommendations in this article but would like to emphasise that giving effectively in this area can often be much more impactful than working directly on global health and development.
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Organisations such as Engineers Without Borders, Open Source Hardware, and Bridges to Prosperity that take the approach of improving local infrastructure to facilitate better local facilities and spur economic growth may be especially of interest to engineers. Although sometimes their interventions are less rigorously evidence based, they attempt to target interventions to the needs of poor communities and much of their work has greatly helped those in need. The organisation Bridges to Prosperity has even received funding from GiveWell, a charity evaluator well known for its rigorous evidence-based funding process, to evaluate their effectiveness.
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Engineers with some background in logistics may be especially useful in distributing medical interventions, as this is cited as a key bottleneck in many global health and development programs.
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we feel substantially confident in the recommendations in this article but would like to emphasise that giving effectively in this area can often be much more impactful than working directly on global health and development.
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Organisations such as Engineers Without Borders, Open Source Hardware, and Bridges to Prosperity that take the approach of improving local infrastructure to facilitate better local facilities and spur economic growth may be especially of interest to engineers. Although sometimes their interventions are less rigorously evidence based, they attempt to target interventions to the needs of poor communities and much of their work has greatly helped those in need. The organisation Bridges to Prosperity has even received funding from GiveWell, a charity evaluator well known for its rigorous evidence-based funding process, to evaluate their effectiveness.
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Engineers with some background in logistics may be especially useful in distributing medical interventions, as this is cited as a key bottleneck in many global health and development programs.
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