How we determine our giving priorities?
To determine our highest level of anti-poverty priorities, we conduct a cost : impact analysis on a multitude of interventions, using aggregated data from leading academic databases, top economic scholars and prominent sociological thinkers. From the research, we place the anti-poverty strategies in a quadrant according to two variables: impact per dollar (negligible to high-impact) and cost to implement (low cost to high cost).
Auxylios then gives first priority support to anti-poverty strategies in the upper-left quadrant: Low Cost and High Impact strategies. This is followed by those in the upper-right quadrant: High Cost and High Impact strategies. Strategies that fall in the lower quadrants (either left or right), which are Low Impact, are not given Auxylios Priority status.
Any further strategies that are currently considered problematic will also remain outside the realm of Auxylios recommendations.
Our current anti-poverty priorities quadrant is shown below.
There are, however, interventions which currently lie outside the realm of Auxylios recommendations. These include:
Approaches that are better served by governmental agencies (such as upholding international trade regulations).
Approaches that, while likely to be beneficial, lack robust economic data regarding their impact (such as anti-discrimination laws).
Approaches that may not be universally morally acceptable, such as abortion promoted as part of family planning services.
You’ll see this quadrant customized to reflect each of our recommended organizations.