Innovation in Government Initiative — General support

Abstract

As part of GiveWell’s exploratory work into opportunities to improve the uptake and implementation of evidence-based policy by governments, in December 2018, GiveWell recommended the Effective Altruism Global Health and Development Fund make a grant of $1,000,000 to J-PAL’s Innovation in Government Initiative (IGI). From 2015 until December 2018, IGI was known as the Government Partnership Initiative (GPI). IGI is a grantmaking entity within the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). It plans to make grants to partnerships between governments and J-PAL offices and affiliated researchers to help pilot and scale evidence-informed programs in education, health and social assistance. The grant will be used to support IGI’s general operating costs and run two requests for proposals (RFPs).