Every figure on the pages of projects, organisations and givers comes from what the organisations report. This page shows how we count them, in full.
People reached
The number of distinct people who directly use or receive what the project provides, counted once over the project's life however many of its activities reach them.
Across projects: a person reached by two projects counts in each; the totals on an organisation's page and on profiles are sums of projects' figures, not counts of distinct people.
Cause points
Cause points are a Humapact convention, not a measurement: each figure the organisation reports earns points, 100 being what a typical pilot project delivers of it. They compare projects of one cause by the size of what they delivered, never by quality. The weights are provisional.
The total adds up the points as counted, then rounds once to a whole number.
When a project reports new figures, its supporters share the new points in proportion to the money they had given by then. Points of one cause never add to another's.
Points come with the figures: a project earns them with the first figures it reports; a giver, with the figures the supported projects report after the gift. Until then the cause reads “on the way”.
One indicator can hold unlike things: ten rainwater tanks score 500 and one borehole 50, because both are water points. The rule prices the indicator, not the object.
The weights, cause by cause
Energy
| Indicator | 100 points = |
|---|---|
| Homes poweredPoints per unit: 1 | 100 homes powered |
| Facilities poweredPoints per unit: 50 | 2 facilities powered |
| Solar capacity installedPoints per unit: 10 | 10 kWp |
| Improved cookstovesPoints per unit: 0.5 | 200 improved cookstoves |
| Solar lamps distributedPoints per unit: 0.25 | 400 solar lamps |
What each figure counts
- Homes powered
- A household the project connects to a grid or mini-grid, or equips with a solar home system that runs at least lights and phone charging every day.
- Facilities powered
- A school, health facility or community building the project connects to power, or equips with a solar system that powers it every day.
- Solar capacity installed
- The peak power of the solar panels the project installs (on homes, facilities, pumps or street lights), in kilowatts-peak.
- Improved cookstoves
- A stove given to a household to replace an open fire, burning less fuel (an improved wood or charcoal stove, or a gas, biogas or electric one).
- Solar lamps distributed
- A portable solar lamp or lantern given to a household or a pupil.
Water
| Indicator | 100 points = |
|---|---|
| Water points built or restoredPoints per unit: 50 | 2 water points |
| Latrines builtPoints per unit: 10 | 10 latrines |
| Handwashing stations installedPoints per unit: 25 | 4 handwashing stations |
| People trained in hygienePoints per unit: 0.5 | 200 people trained in hygiene |
What each figure counts
- Water points built or restored
- A place where people draw drinking water from an improved source (borehole, protected well or spring, tap stand, rainwater tank), built by the project or brought back into use after it had stopped working; a piped system counts each tap stand.
- Latrines built
- One toilet cubicle of an improved type (flush or pour-flush, pit with a slab, ventilated pit, composting), built by the project in a home, school or health facility.
- Handwashing stations installed
- A fixed place with water and soap for washing hands, installed by the project at a home, school, health facility or public place.
- People trained in hygiene
- A person who attended a hygiene or sanitation session the project ran (handwashing, safe water, menstrual hygiene); each person once.
Health
| Indicator | 100 points = |
|---|---|
| ConsultationsPoints per unit: 0.02 | 5,000 consultations |
| Births assistedPoints per unit: 0.1 | 1,000 births assisted |
| Children vaccinatedPoints per unit: 0.05 | 2,000 children vaccinated |
| Health workers trainedPoints per unit: 4 | 25 health workers trained |
| Health facilities built or equippedPoints per unit: 100 | 1 health facility |
What each figure counts
- Consultations
- A patient seen by a trained health worker through the project, at a facility, a mobile clinic or at home; every visit counts, so one patient can give several.
- Births assisted
- A delivery attended by a doctor, nurse or midwife at a facility the project runs or supports, or through a referral it pays for.
- Children vaccinated
- A child who received from the project at least one dose of a vaccine in the national schedule; each child once, however many doses.
- Health workers trained
- A health worker — community health workers and midwives included — who completed a training the project ran or paid for; the organisation's own employees are not counted.
- Health facilities built or equipped
- A health post, clinic, maternity unit or ward the project builds, rehabilitates or equips so that it can treat patients.
Education
| Indicator | 100 points = |
|---|---|
| School rooms built or equippedPoints per unit: 25 | 4 school rooms |
| Teachers trainedPoints per unit: 5 | 20 teachers trained |
| Student-years fundedPoints per unit: 2 | 50 student-years |
| People who completed a coursePoints per unit: 4 | 25 people who completed a course |
| School meals servedPoints per unit: 0.005 | 20,000 school meals |
What each figure counts
- School rooms built or equipped
- A classroom, library, computer room or lab the project builds, rehabilitates or equips so that a class can use it.
- Teachers trained
- A teacher who completed a training the project ran or paid for; the organisation's own employees are not counted.
- Student-years funded
- One pupil's school year paid for by the project (fees, and whatever else it covers: books, uniform, meals, board); three years for one pupil count three.
- People who completed a course
- A young person or adult who completed a vocational, literacy or skills course the project ran; those who dropped out are not counted.
- School meals served
- One meal served to one pupil at school by a canteen or feeding programme the project runs or funds.
Reforestation
| Indicator | 100 points = |
|---|---|
| Trees plantedPoints per unit: 0.01 | 10,000 trees planted |
| Hectares restoredPoints per unit: 5 | 20 ha restored |
| Seedlings raisedPoints per unit: 0.01 | 10,000 seedlings raised |
What each figure counts
- Trees planted
- A seedling or sapling the project plants in the ground at its final site; seedlings still in a nursery are not counted.
- Trees alive at the last count
- The project's planted trees found alive at the organisation's latest count, counted in full or from sample plots it describes.
- Hectares restored
- Land the project plants with trees, reseeds or protects so that forest can regrow.
- Seedlings raised
- A seedling grown to planting size in a nursery the project runs or supports, whether the project plants it or gives it away.
Agriculture
| Indicator | 100 points = |
|---|---|
| Trees plantedPoints per unit: 0.01 | 10,000 trees planted |
| Farmers trainedPoints per unit: 0.5 | 200 farmers trained |
| Households given farm inputsPoints per unit: 1 | 100 households given farm inputs |
| Hectares irrigatedPoints per unit: 2.5 | 40 ha irrigated |
| Hectares under sustainable practicePoints per unit: 4 | 25 ha under sustainable practice |
What each figure counts
- Trees planted
- A seedling or sapling the project plants in the ground at its final site; seedlings still in a nursery are not counted.
- Farmers trained
- A farmer, herder or fish farmer who completed a training the project ran (techniques, storage, processing, selling).
- Households given farm inputs
- A household that received from the project seeds or seedlings, tools, animals or fishing gear to grow or earn its food.
- Hectares irrigated
- Farmland the project equips with irrigation it did not have before (a pump, drip lines, canals).
- Hectares under sustainable practice
- Farmland where, through the project, farmers apply a sustainable practice (agroforestry, soil and water conservation, composting, rotation).