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Living Goods
Living Goods is a non-profit organization headquartered in Nairobi, with core operations in Uganda, Kenya, and Burkina Faso.
According to the organization's 2021-2026 Strategic Plan, since 2007, Living Goods has been working to close the gap between the potential of community health workers (CHWs) to improve and save lives and the challenges they regularly face, including insufficient training, supervision, and access to medicines; reliance on antiquated and inefficient paper-based tools; and systems that treat them as unpaid volunteers, rather than as trusted members of a health care delivery system.[citation needed]
The company embraced and codified the DESC approach, through which CHWs are digitally enabled, equipped, supervised, and compensated. DESC is designed to improve the performance of CHWs, ensuring they are incentivized and able to deliver high-quality health care at low cost.[citation needed]
They partner with African governments to ensure that CHWs have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to be successful and reach their full potential.[citation needed] CHWs are community members with basic health training who travel who door-to-door to educate, assess and treat common but deadly illnesses for children under age 5, track and refer them for immunizations, and support women in both pregnancy care and family planning. Living Goods focuses on supporting governments to professionalize CHWs and strengthen the systems in which they work, using digital tools and data, equipping them with medicines and training, and ensuring they are supervised and compensated. With operations in Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, in 2021 Living Goods supported more than 11,000 CHWs to assist 8.5 million people.[citation needed]
Living Goods was founded by Chuck Slaughter in 2007.
Living Goods has received funding from the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Mulago Foundation, Jasmine Social Investments, the Peery Foundation and many other foundations.
Charity evaluator GiveWell singled out Living Goods for special recognition in 2009 because Living Goods was cooperating with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab to perform a rigorous evaluation of its program.
In 2011, Tobias Pfutze, an Assistant Professor of Economics, participated in GiveWell's "Find the Best Charity" experiment whereby he would spend about ten hours researching the best charity (or charities) using GiveWell and then allocate $2500 (funded by GiveWell) to the charity or charities. Pfutze allocated the entire $2500 to Living Goods and explained the rationale for his decision to GiveWell in an interview. GiveWell followed up with a blog post discussing some of the issues raised in the discussion.
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Living Goods
Living Goods is a non-profit organization headquartered in Nairobi, with core operations in Uganda, Kenya, and Burkina Faso.
According to the organization's 2021-2026 Strategic Plan, since 2007, Living Goods has been working to close the gap between the potential of community health workers (CHWs) to improve and save lives and the challenges they regularly face, including insufficient training, supervision, and access to medicines; reliance on antiquated and inefficient paper-based tools; and systems that treat them as unpaid volunteers, rather than as trusted members of a health care delivery system.[citation needed]
The company embraced and codified the DESC approach, through which CHWs are digitally enabled, equipped, supervised, and compensated. DESC is designed to improve the performance of CHWs, ensuring they are incentivized and able to deliver high-quality health care at low cost.[citation needed]
They partner with African governments to ensure that CHWs have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to be successful and reach their full potential.[citation needed] CHWs are community members with basic health training who travel who door-to-door to educate, assess and treat common but deadly illnesses for children under age 5, track and refer them for immunizations, and support women in both pregnancy care and family planning. Living Goods focuses on supporting governments to professionalize CHWs and strengthen the systems in which they work, using digital tools and data, equipping them with medicines and training, and ensuring they are supervised and compensated. With operations in Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso, in 2021 Living Goods supported more than 11,000 CHWs to assist 8.5 million people.[citation needed]
Living Goods was founded by Chuck Slaughter in 2007.
Living Goods has received funding from the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, Omidyar Network, the Mulago Foundation, Jasmine Social Investments, the Peery Foundation and many other foundations.
Charity evaluator GiveWell singled out Living Goods for special recognition in 2009 because Living Goods was cooperating with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab to perform a rigorous evaluation of its program.
In 2011, Tobias Pfutze, an Assistant Professor of Economics, participated in GiveWell's "Find the Best Charity" experiment whereby he would spend about ten hours researching the best charity (or charities) using GiveWell and then allocate $2500 (funded by GiveWell) to the charity or charities. Pfutze allocated the entire $2500 to Living Goods and explained the rationale for his decision to GiveWell in an interview. GiveWell followed up with a blog post discussing some of the issues raised in the discussion.