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“Center for Effective Aid Policy has shut down” by MathiasKB🔸

02 Jul 2024

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May 2024 marked the last month of the Center for Effective Aid Policy. This post serves as the public post-mortem. I have strived for it to be interesting to the average forum reader, who may not know much about the cause area.For professionals in development, we have a few internal private write ups which we may be more interesting, such as an overview of development asks we tried[1], their strengths and weaknesses, and our experience advocating for them. Our mission Our mission was to improve the cost-effectiveness of development assistance through policy advocacy. Governments spend billions on projects to help the world's poorest, few of them cost-effective. For example, one could propose the use of cash-benchmarking to the ministry or push through a political motion to increase the proportion of spending going to the Least Developed Countries. If one could make even a small part of this very [...] ---Outline:(00:34) Our mission(01:14) How far did we get?(01:18) The first months(02:13) Things pick up(03:33) The decision to shut down(04:47) Why changing aid is difficult(04:51) Development is a competitive market(06:17) Political champions are few and far between(07:43) Decreasing budgets limit maneuverability(08:38) Was our execution sufficient?(09:47) Insufficient founder-fit(09:51) We lacked development experience(10:49) We came to struggle with morale(12:19) Should others try this intervention?(15:36) Thank you to everyone who helped The original text contained 1 footnote which was omitted from this narration. --- First published: July 2nd, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/emBSDADvCnSwtL2kS/center-for-effective-aid-policy-has-shut-down --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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