Could you share a bit about how much research or existing expertise went into setting your priorities for the year? I only skimmed the document so I wasn’t totally clear. It sounded like the importance of the different areas was weighted most heavily, and that was mostly identified by staff’s intuitions from having worked in the area for a while?
As outlined in the document, the ranking/prioritization was done internally by Giving Green staff, based on our experience working in the space, a wide array of experts working on various parts of the climate issue, and reviewing public documents. I agree probably not the most robust procedure, but it was meant mostly to limit the scope of our search task to make it manageable given the size of our team.
In 2021 we’re taking some different tactics, in an attempt to improve our methods. For our US work we’re diving much more deeply into some sector analysis (particularly activism) to make a clearer yes/no case for inclusion. We’ll post more about that soon. In Australia, we’re taking a different tactic of doing a systematic quantitative and qualitative survey of experts, using the ITN framework. Going forward, we’re going to try to integrate the best of these different tactics into a set of best practices for future years.
I was curious about your methodology for your research project—thanks for linking. https://www.givinggreen.earth/post/how-we-determined-our-2020-research-priorities-for-policy-change
Could you share a bit about how much research or existing expertise went into setting your priorities for the year? I only skimmed the document so I wasn’t totally clear. It sounded like the importance of the different areas was weighted most heavily, and that was mostly identified by staff’s intuitions from having worked in the area for a while?
As outlined in the document, the ranking/prioritization was done internally by Giving Green staff, based on our experience working in the space, a wide array of experts working on various parts of the climate issue, and reviewing public documents. I agree probably not the most robust procedure, but it was meant mostly to limit the scope of our search task to make it manageable given the size of our team.
In 2021 we’re taking some different tactics, in an attempt to improve our methods. For our US work we’re diving much more deeply into some sector analysis (particularly activism) to make a clearer yes/no case for inclusion. We’ll post more about that soon. In Australia, we’re taking a different tactic of doing a systematic quantitative and qualitative survey of experts, using the ITN framework. Going forward, we’re going to try to integrate the best of these different tactics into a set of best practices for future years.