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Animal Advocacy Impact Engine (global)
The Animal Advocacy Impact Engine is our free international training and support program, in which we teach animal and vegan advocacy organizations how to implement Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) systems.
Organizations learn to conduct a needs assessment, create Theories of Change, identify assumptions, conduct process evaluations, and will receive continued support to implement these methods. During the program, we will continuously test and evaluate how to best apply MEL to animal and vegan advocacy interventions.
Many charities do not know if their activities lead to the intended outcomes. Organizations not monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of their interventions run the risk of wasting time and money on less impactful or even net-negative interventions
Monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) can streamline interventions and increase their impact. However, animal organizations often do not know how to apply MEL, have little time to spare, and sometimes feel their interventions are not suitable for a data-driven approach.
Our initial assessment shows the expertise to design MEL suitable for animal organizations and support to implement it, is extremely limited and not available for most organizations.
The program will initially be available for 10 organizations annually. Two staff members per organization will engage in 5 weeks of pre-reading, 2 weeks of half-day training sessions, and receive 6 months of hands-on coaching, support, and workshops. The program will end with a workshop to help analyze the information gathered and refine strategic direction and interventions.
Theory of Change - Training
Key assumptions
A comprehensive training and support program is sufficient to teach organizations how to apply MEL to animal interventions.
Participating organizations have sufficient skills, capacity, and suitable interventions to successfully apply MEL.
The implemented MEL systems generate the appropriate information to gain insights, support decision-making, and lead to more effective interventions.
Based on the insights and learnings, organizations are able and willing to change, stop, or scale their interventions.
Theory of Change - Building a Community of Practice
Key assumption
By communicating our insights and learnings, we can inspire more organizations and funders to apply and experiment with MEL, eventually leading to a more evidence-driven animal and vegan advocacy community.
Participants to the Animal Advocacy Impact Engine
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Animal Ethics (Global)
Animal Ethics envisions a world where all sentient beings are given moral consideration. They promote respect for nonhuman animals through outreach, research, and education. Animal Ethics supports and researches interventions to improve the lives of animals in the wild, such as vaccinations and helping animals in natural disasters, and explores how future technologies will enable us to avoid catastrophic risks and ways technology can be used to help wild animals on a large scale.
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Animal Welfare League (Ghana)
Animal Welfare League is an animal advocacy organization that advocates for animal welfare in Ghana. Their mission is to work with stakeholders, communities and government to promote animal welfare for a better environment and human health. Animal Welfare League implements projects, conducts research and engages in community building. They envision a world where animals are loved, cared for and protected.
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Animal Welfare Observatory (Spain)
Animal Welfare Observatory is dedicated to improving the living conditions of animals destined for consumption with the lowest standards of animal welfare. Their mission is to achieve agreements with companies, institutions and stakeholders that positively impact the greatest possible number of animals. AWO envisions a world where intensive animal farming and intensive aquaculture makes way to food production models that respect animal welfare.
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Aquatic Life Institute (Global)
Aquatic Life Institute is on a mission to reduce the suffering of the trillions of aquatic animals being farmed and caught in the wild for human consumption each year. They conduct research and advise on aquatic animal welfare. Operating from effective altruism principles, ALI seeks to support and accelerate activities that positively impact aquatic life, focusing on the highest-impact welfare interventions for all aquatic animals on a global scale.
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Education for Africa Animal Welfare (East Africa)
Education for Africa Animal Welfare fosters and promotes animal welfare management among the people of Tanzania and East Africa. In collaboration with other animal lovers they influence policy, support community empowerment, create strong advocacy groups, and promote attitude and behavioral change through media outlets.
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Material Innovation Initiative (Global)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, support is paused.
Material Innovation Initiative is a think tank focused on research, knowledge-sharing, and fostering connections to fast-track the development of environmentally preferable and animal-free materials. They work to cultivate a global market for next-gen materials across the fashion, automotive, and home goods industries. -
Sinergia Animal (Global South)
Sinergia Animal is an international animal protection organization working in countries of the Global South to reduce the suffering of farmed animals and promote more compassionate food choices. Sinergia Animal participates with their Indonesia office, where they run cage-free programs, a vegan challenge for individuals, and their Nourishing Tomorrow program which supports schools and local government to adopt a plant-based menu at their dining room.
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Utunzi Animal Welfare (Kenya)
Utunzi Animal Welfare is dedicated to educating, promoting, and fostering animal welfare research and education across farmed, companion, and wild animals. They place African interests at the center of animal welfare issues to elucidate how animal welfare is beneficial to the interests of the African community. In their projects they embody Afro-centric approaches to empower society to make good choices on the basis of approved animal welfare standards.
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Vegan Life NGO (Greece)
Vegan Life NGO aims to spread the vegan lifestyle in Greece and throughout the world. They carry out all kinds of events, campaigns, and actions with the common goal of defending animal rights, familiarizing the public with the concept of veganism, raising awareness around issues of social justice and environmental protection as well as providing accessible, valid and scientifically documented information about the vegan lifestyle and matters connected to it.
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New applications
Unfortunately, the Animal Advocacy Impact Engine has no room to accept additional participants at the moment.
We advise all animal and vegan advocacy organizations to join the Impactful Animal Advocacy Slack Channel, where we will share content and learnings, and organize online meet-ups for those interested in MEL.
Please fill out this form to join the community