NEW INCENTIVES

New Incentives offers conditional cash transfers (CCTs) to incentivize infant vaccination in North West Nigeria. There is strong evidence that expanding vaccination reduces illness and death among young children. CCTs could plausibly be a cost-effective way to increase vaccination rates among children in areas like North West Nigeria where vaccine supply is adequate but uptake is low... New Incentives focuses on using evidence-based methods to make programmatic decisions and to do the most good possible per dollar spent. Some examples of how we do this: we designed our program based on evidence on conditional cash transfers, an approach that has proven to be effective in changing health behaviors; we focus on immunizations and operate in North West, Nigeria, where only around 25% of infants are fully immunized (thus leading to devastating disease outbreaks); and we base operational decisions on rigorous data collection to increase program effectiveness and efficiency... New..

Registration numbers: EIN 45-2368993 (W)