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Experience Our Recent Site Visit to Malawi
Today, we’re launching a new podcast mini-series that lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi. Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares real-time reflections and clips of conversations with community members. New episodes will be released weekly over the next month, and you can subscribe to be notified when each episode is published.
GiveWell co-founder and CEO Elie Hassenfeld speaks with a participant of a Spark Microgrants program.
At GiveWell, the vast majority of our work is desk-based research—analyzing evidence and modeling program outcomes. Site visits are a small part of what we do, but they add crucial on-the-ground context that raises important questions, challenges our assumptions, and makes our research stronger.
We had two main goals in visiting Malawi. First, we wanted to understand the effects of foreign aid cuts firsthand in a country that may be particularly hard hit. Second, we wanted to see livelihoods programs like GiveDirectly and Spark Microgrants in action, providing insight as we expand our focus on interventions that aim to increase people’s economic well-being.
Senior Program Officer Julie Faller talks with a student at a school near the capital city of Lilongwe.
Throughout the week, the team visited health clinics, schools, and local villages to speak with healthcare workers and community members who shared a glimpse into their lives. This new podcast mini-series offers a candid, day-by-day account of our learning process and new insights that will inform our research. We invite you to listen, subscribe, and follow along!
A Frontline View of Foreign Aid Cuts with CHAI’s CEO
Foreign aid funding cuts are reshaping the global health landscape. To understand the real-world effects, it’s essential to hear from grantees like the Clinton Health Access Initiative who are working closely with government partners to navigate this crisis.
In our recent podcast episode, GiveWell CEO and co-founder Elie Hassenfeld speaks with CHAI CEO Dr. Neil Buddy Shah about how the aid cuts are affecting vital health programs, what it takes to build a strategic response, and how this pivotal moment could shape the future of global health.
Elie and Buddy cover:
The “gap identification” challenge: