I wonder if you should add a criteria for ‘personal fit’? Something can be good in general, but not good for you. I’m not sure how that would change the results though.
I agree personal fit is important. Although we do not have an explicit separate category for this, we definitely took it into account when evaluating options.
I guess I’m surprised to see tobacco taxation up there on personal fit grounds. While I think it’s a great cause in general, I think it would be a many-year effort to gain the credibility and local knowledge to be able to influence Indian politics, especially when big money is going to be running against you.
For even the easiest to execute interventions we would have to hire domain and country experts. Any operation that involves government lobbying (tobacco and fortification) would require hiring a lobbyist who already has established connections and local knowledge. I do not feel like hiring a tobacco expert would be substantially more difficult than hiring a lobbyist for any other topic or hiring a very qualified expert for another intervention.
I wonder if you should add a criteria for ‘personal fit’? Something can be good in general, but not good for you. I’m not sure how that would change the results though.
I agree personal fit is important. Although we do not have an explicit separate category for this, we definitely took it into account when evaluating options.
I guess I’m surprised to see tobacco taxation up there on personal fit grounds. While I think it’s a great cause in general, I think it would be a many-year effort to gain the credibility and local knowledge to be able to influence Indian politics, especially when big money is going to be running against you.
For even the easiest to execute interventions we would have to hire domain and country experts. Any operation that involves government lobbying (tobacco and fortification) would require hiring a lobbyist who already has established connections and local knowledge. I do not feel like hiring a tobacco expert would be substantially more difficult than hiring a lobbyist for any other topic or hiring a very qualified expert for another intervention.
OK if you’re planning to get in external experts it makes a lot more sense.