Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $1,000,000 over two years to Mercy Corps, in partnership with the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University, to conduct a pilot project with a randomized control trial (RCT) on seasonal migration for rural Nigeriens. The project and the RCT will examine the drivers and returns to seasonal migration, and will subsidize the transportation of underemployed men in the rural Tillabéri region to urban centers in Niger and surrounding countries.
This falls within Open Philanthropy's focus area of immigration policy.