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Photo credit to: Malaria Consortium/Sophie Garcia
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Responding to foreign aid funding cuts
As we navigate the implications of significant cuts to foreign assistance, we are balancing a targeted, near-term response to urgent needs with a broad, long-term perspective of likely future ones. We’ve also launched a podcast to share timely snapshots of this rapidly evolving situation.
A closer look at GiveWell’s research
Listen in as the Planet Money team follows along as GiveWell evaluated and then approved a grant to ALIMA so healthcare support and malnutrition treatment could continue in two subdistricts of northern Cameroon. This grant is one of more than 100 grants we approved this year.
