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Timeline of Schistosomiasis Control Initiative

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| 2010 || || Expansion || SCI begins working in Côte d'Ivoire.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information">{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/supplementary-information |website=givewell.org |accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Côte d'Ivoire}}
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| 2010 || || Funding || SCI receives £10.5 million (plus separate funding for drugs) from the British {{w|Department for International Development}} for treating schistosomiasis and {{w|soil-transmitted helminthiasis}} in eight countries over five years.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2010 || October || Funding || SCI receives £10.5 million (plus separate funding for drugs) from the British {{w|Department for International Development}} for treating schistosomiasis and {{w|soil-transmitted helminthiasis}} in eight countries over five years.<ref>{{cite web |title=Imperial initiative to protect children from tropical disease awarded £25m government backing |url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/93621/imperial-initiative-protect-children-from-tropical/ |website=imperial.ac.uk |accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2013 – 2014 || Between November 2013 and April 2014 || || SCI funds mapping in {{w|Ethiopia}}.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> || {{w|Ethiopia}}
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| 2014 || June || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI. It reports among notable plans a new opportunity to work with {{w|Sudan}} to create a national deworming program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - June 2014 Update |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/June-2014#Spending_between_September_2013_and_March_2014 |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> || {{w|Sudan}}
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| 2014 || || Expansion || SCI begins program in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar.<ref name="OUR REACH"/> || {{w|Democratic Republic of the Congo}}, {{w|Madagascar}}
| 2014 || || Funding || The British {{w|Department for International Development}} awards SCI an additional £16.6 million over four and a half years (June 2014 to December 2018) to extend the program and expand it to an additional two countries.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2014 || || Coverage || ACI SCI reaches median coverage for schistosomiasis treatment at 69% in Malawi, 82% in Côte d'Ivoire, and 47% in Uganda.<ref name="SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVEd"/> ||
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| 2014 || November || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI, maintaining its rating as a top-rated charity.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) - 2014 Review |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/November-2014-review |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> ||
| 2015 || || Budget || SCI begins to use a system of country cashbooks for spending breakdown, which compare monthly in-country actual spending to budgets.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2015 || || Coverage || ACI SCI reaches median coverage for schistosomiasis treatment at 81% in Mozambique, 93% in Zambia (2015), and 80% in Zanzibar.<ref name="SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVEd"/> ||
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| 2015 || || || {{w|Schistosomiasis}} is indicated to have the lowest level of preventive chemotherapy implementation in the spectrum of neglected tropical diseases. It is also highlighted as the disease most lacking in progress.<ref name="Building a global schistosomiasis alliance: an opportunity to join forces to fight inequality and rural poverty"/> ||
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| 2015 || August || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI, and continues to recommend it for its track record implementing a cost-effective program.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative - August 2015 Update |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/August-2015 |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref> |||-| 2015 || November || Review || GiveWell updates review of SCI, maintaining its rating as a top-rated charity.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) - 2015 Review |url=https://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/2015-review#Is_there_room_for_more_funding |website=givewell.org |accessdate=4 May 2019}}</ref>||
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| 2015 – 2016 || || Program || SCI plans to deliver around 0.6 million treatments and reports delivering 1.4 million treatments in Côte d'Ivoire.<ref name="Schistosomiasis Control Initiative: Supplementary Information"/> ||
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| 2016 || January || Funding || {{w|Private foundation}} {{w|Good Ventures}} awards a grant of US$1,000,000 to the SCI for general operating support, in recognition of the organization’s earning a “top charity” ranking from {{w|GiveWell}} in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative — General Support (2016) |url=https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/global-health-and-development/miscellaneous/schistosomiasis-control-initiative-general-support-2016 |website=openphilanthropy.org |accessdate=11 March 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2016 || June || Review || GiveWell publishes review of SCI, retaining its role as top rated charity, but expressing concerns about SCI's use of an accounting system ill-suited to its needs, and substantial financial errors impacting funding from GiveWell-influenced donors.<ref>{{cite web |title=Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) – June 2016 version |url=https://www.givewell.org/charities/schistosomiasis-control-initiative/june-2016-version |website=givewell.org |accessdate=5 May 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2016 || August || Review || GiveWell estimates that programs supported by SCI can deworm a person for approximately US$1.26 based (including the estimated cost of SCI’s funding to country programs, SCI’s headquarters costs, cost of donated drugs, and local government involvement).<ref name="SCHISTOSOMIASIS CONTROL INITIATIVEd"/> ||
==See also==
 
* [[Timeline of deworming]]
* [[Timeline of GiveWell]]
* [[Timeline of Against Malaria Foundation]]
==External links==
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