Yes Peter, my point was indeed that EA’s obsession with measurement is, from what I’ve seen, making it less Effective, and less able to see how to lever the resources within the movement.
EA stood out as a good idea when I first heard about it, but the few encounters I had—mostly in the San Francisco area when I was based there—showed that it wasn’t really that effective as its approach tended to miss those leverage points.
For example—I notice the EA main website features SendWave in Senegal—I don’t know them (though I know their equivalents in several other African countries), my question would be whether EA was Effective enough to see the potential and invest in them, or would be effective enough to replicate the idea in other countries and so on.
Yes Peter, my point was indeed that EA’s obsession with measurement is, from what I’ve seen, making it less Effective, and less able to see how to lever the resources within the movement.
EA stood out as a good idea when I first heard about it, but the few encounters I had—mostly in the San Francisco area when I was based there—showed that it wasn’t really that effective as its approach tended to miss those leverage points.
For example—I notice the EA main website features SendWave in Senegal—I don’t know them (though I know their equivalents in several other African countries), my question would be whether EA was Effective enough to see the potential and invest in them, or would be effective enough to replicate the idea in other countries and so on.