“So I guess one initial pitch would be to find some recent college grads sympahetic to EA ideas, hire them at private-sector local salaries (is that on the order of a few thousand USD in Uganda a year?), and teach them how to do shallow EA-style investigations. Frankly, I think a few programs of that nature would also be an inexpensive way to lay the groundwork for mitigating the reputational issue of EA being viewed as largely a movement of people from certain countries, races, and educational backgrounds.”
My only addition is that you would probably need someone more versed in EA evaluations out here supervising this. Also you’d need really good grads, because this would be a very new concept and would need a lot of learning.
I don’t love the soliciting idea, because like you say it would still favour bigger organisations and would miss a lot of potentially great really small ones.
I love this this idea here a lot
“So I guess one initial pitch would be to find some recent college grads sympahetic to EA ideas, hire them at private-sector local salaries (is that on the order of a few thousand USD in Uganda a year?), and teach them how to do shallow EA-style investigations. Frankly, I think a few programs of that nature would also be an inexpensive way to lay the groundwork for mitigating the reputational issue of EA being viewed as largely a movement of people from certain countries, races, and educational backgrounds.”
My only addition is that you would probably need someone more versed in EA evaluations out here supervising this. Also you’d need really good grads, because this would be a very new concept and would need a lot of learning.
I don’t love the soliciting idea, because like you say it would still favour bigger organisations and would miss a lot of potentially great really small ones.