Applying data and evidence
for more impactful altruism
Our Philosophy
Bringing together head & heart
Mettalytics is a boutique consultancy that specializes in using data and quantitative analysis to help our clients maximize their positive impact. Our team has experience advising governments, philanthropists, NGOs and international development organizations.
We believe that applying rigorous quantitative analysis should be an essential part of the altruistic process. There is more information than ever before on what strategies work and don’t work, how much policies cost and what beneficiaries value. Using both head and heart, we work to ensure philanthropy and government policy have the greatest impact possible.
What is the most important decision for maximizing impact?
Our experience working in the development sector and academia for more than a decade shows that one decision is vastly more important than others:
Prioritizing the right interventions.
Intervention selection is the process of figuring out the types of activities you will focus on. If you care about education, for example, will you build schools or provide laptops or train teachers? There are typically hundreds, if not thousands of possible interventions to choose from. Devoting some time and effort to figuring out which interventions to focus on can substantially increase your expected impact.
Academic evidence shows that moving from a typical to a top intervention often improves impact per dollar 10-fold and sometimes by as much as 100-fold.
Our Services
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Impact Maximization
Determine the most impactful use of resources for doing good.
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Social return-on-investment analysis
Calculate the impact per dollar invested in philanthropy through cost-benefit analysis.
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Cost-effectiveness analysis
Determine the most cost effective approach to solving a social challenge.
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Problem sizing
Rigorously estimate the social, economic and environmental costs of a given problem.
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Discrete choice experiments
Include the preferences of beneficiaries in decision making.
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Evidence review
Systematically search academic reports for the most-up-to-date evidence on a given challenge.
Highlighted Project
Rebuilding Schools Using Recycled Plastic in Indonesia
A social-return-on-investment analysis
Our Clients
Testimonials
"The report by Mettalytics demonstrated to our stakeholders that we had carefully considered the value-for-money proposition of the recycled plastic schools. It reached senior Ministers in the government of Indonesia, the World Bank, IFC and donor agencies in Australia and Finland who were all impressed by the rigour of the analysis and the relevance of the policy insights."
— Duncan Ward, CEO Classroom of Hope
Get in touch
Are you part of an NGO, foundation or government department interested in increasing the impact of your investments?