Peter Singer

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Australian Finance Podcast · Making effective donations to charity with Peter Singer · 8 Nov 2020 podcast

So we need to balance that.

We need to balance the amount that is going to administration to make sure that organizations can still be efficient in what they're doing.

And we need to know that the impact of their projects is really good.

And some projects you could spend as much as you like on it, but they wouldn't really achieve very much.

It's been demonstrated that

a variety of projects have failed.

Projects need to be tested in the field.

And ideally, they need to be tested against kind of the equivalent of a placebo in drug testing.

So in other words, say for the distribution of bed nets against malaria that I mentioned, you need to have some baselines with how many children died in villages when there was no bed nets distributed.

And how many children died in villages where bed nets were distributed?

And then you can get a really good picture that, yes, this is an impactful program that saves lives.

Or, you know, how many people had their sight restored through cataract surgery through this program rather than other places where there was no non-government organization that was providing cataract surgery.

So those are the things that we're looking for.

And the life you can save is looking for that kind of evidence.

And it's drawing on

Some other organisations, because we can't do all that research ourselves, it's drawing on, I mentioned already, GiveWell, another organisation that does this, and Impact Matters is another organisation.

So we're pulling together research that is done by different organisations and making it easily accessible to you on our website, thelifeyoucansave.org.

So I do think that starting now and giving something is a good thing to do because it's a learning process.

And it's also, if you like, a habit-forming process.

And some habits are good to form early.

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