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Changelog

by | September 2023

Last updated the 16th of December 2024.

In our ongoing commitment to transparency and continuous improvement, we maintain this changelog to document updates to our assessments of various charitable organisations. Below, you’ll find a record of changes made to our cost-effectiveness estimates for different charities, along with the key details of each update.

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Friendship Bench

Charity Version Date published WELLBYs per $1000 donated Changes
Friendship Bench 2 (psychotherapy version 4) 26 November 2024 49 Large update with new data (new extraction, new charity data, and the inclusion of M&E data), methods, double-checking, double risk of bias analysis.
Friendship Bench 1.5 (psychotherapy version 3.5) 14 August 2024 53 Beginning of a large update with new data, methods, and risk of bias analysis (working paper).
Friendship Bench 1 (psychotherapy version 3) 27 November 2023 58 First analysis of Friendship Bench. New version to improve our analysis and address concerns raised (working paper).

StrongMinds

Charity Version Date published WELLBYs per $1000 donated Changes
StrongMinds 4 26 November 2024 40 Large update with new data (new extraction, new charity data, and the inclusion of M&E data), methods, double-checking, double risk of bias analysis.
StrongMinds 3.5 14 August 2024 47 Beginning of a large update with new data, methods, and risk of bias analysis (working paper).
StrongMinds 3 27 November 2023 30 New version to improve our analysis and address concerns raised (working paper).
StrongMinds 2.5 No publication; updated based on communications in February 2023 62 Updated spillover figure based on our response to criticism.
StrongMinds 2 02 April 2022 77 Added household spillover effects.
StrongMinds 1 02 October 2021 26 Initial publication focused on individual effects.

GiveDirectly

Charity Version Date published WELLBYs per $1000 donated Changes
GiveDirectly 3 No publication; updated from October 2024. 7.55 Change the conversion from SD-years to WELLBYs from 2.17 to 2.00 for all analyses see methodology.
GiveDirectly 2 2 April 2022 8 Added household spillover effects.

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