The problem is that international charities are also tackling complex, poorly understood problems. Charities like AMF oversimplify these problems since the donors will generally never visit the actual people that they are donating to, and therefore will never realize all of the harm that AMF has ignored and failed to measure. Local charities have greater accountability, since the people that are being served can actually be connected to the donors. When the only data we have is from the charity itself, it is easy for the charity to ignore the long term harm, and only measure the short term impact. Here’s the full argument
The problem is that international charities are also tackling complex, poorly understood problems. Charities like AMF oversimplify these problems since the donors will generally never visit the actual people that they are donating to, and therefore will never realize all of the harm that AMF has ignored and failed to measure. Local charities have greater accountability, since the people that are being served can actually be connected to the donors. When the only data we have is from the charity itself, it is easy for the charity to ignore the long term harm, and only measure the short term impact. Here’s the full argument