You may want to ask @Austin to raise your maximum funding a bit so you don't lose out on the quadratic funding round through the Community Choice program.
This project aims to bring together existing and potential community members of EA in Abuja, Nigeria, to network, share ideas and engage in aligned discussions.
The participants would include students, professionals, mid-career individuals and recent graduates.
PROJECT GOALS:
To attract potential community members
To increase engagement and knowledge of Effective Altruism among community members
To encourage networking and collaboration in the community
I aim to achieve these through:
Hosting a one day meetup event in Abuja, Nigeria for 20 persons with Minimum funding and 40 persons with complete funding.
Tailor a program that would be centered around EA cause areas and how we can make impact; facilitating EA aligned discussions
Share relevant resources with participants including our introductory fellowship program for new members
This funding would be used to:
Rent a space for our meet up in Abuja.
Pay for food (Vegetarian) and drinks
Print a few flyers
Handle other logistics involved in organizing the meet up
I will be hosting this with Christoper Isu who has been in our community for over 2 years and has experience in handling logistics for some of our events in the past and present.
TRACK RECORD:
I have been handling the operations of EA Nigeria for about 2 years, working with the director to host events and bring various initiatives to life.
In two years(2022-2024), we have organized 2 workshops, 1 retreat, EA community meet ups in Abuja, Kano, Ibadan and Lagos.
Poor publicity could lead to a failure of the meet up; not reaching the right persons or prospects could be detrimental to this project but this is less likely to happen because we would target our publicity for this event to reach the right category of people
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Jason
23 days ago
Pushing to minimum funding: this work seems established enough and to have generated enough results to get some funding in this round. I also considered the practical difficulty of a group in Nigeria self-funding or obtaining other third-party funding. In the end, it's important to have EA perspectives coming from LMICs.
Daniel Elabi
22 days ago
@Jason Thank you very much for your donation, you are absolutely right about your consideration.
Nina Friedrich
23 days ago
I believe it's crucial to diversify the EA community wherever possible. Best of luck with the meet-ups!
Daniel Elabi
27 days ago
@TonyGao No, it is not. The major problem of third world countries is effective management of resources, they approach it with short term thinking, this reflects in infrastructures, policies and other aspects of the economy, in other words they are not altruistic in their approach, while other developed economies have been observed to apply the principles of longtermism to positively impact the lives of people in their region/country.
Promoting effective altruism in Nigeria has helped to shape individual's thought process and approach to solving pressing problems. This has reflected in the work and projects they do.
Tony Gao
26 days ago
@Elabi So let's say I buy your argument that the resource curse and short-term policies are the problem and that EA will promote long-term and cooperative ideas. However, it seems to me that fixing this requires being in a position of influence, and it seems to me that something like EA is outside of the traditional avenues of power in Nigeria. For example, potentially you could position yourself as a liberal-aligned movement and responsible recipient and distributor of external funding (although there's the SBF reputational damage), but that may be regarded as a usurpation by those who currently have that position so may not be tenable. So do you mean to say that you will focus on promoting EA ideas to those who are in power or in a position to inherit power?
Note that I don't know the local context so could be totally wrong.
Daniel Elabi
26 days ago
@TonyGao We already have community members who work in government and have the potential to become leaders in the sector in the future; whose approach to solving problems has been shaped by their association with us. So I can say that EA is not completely out of the traditional avenues of power rather in touch with it.
We would focus on promoting EA to all with the aim of attracting those with the potential solve pressing issues. These persons could be in the government, non governmental organisation or an independent individual who is working on one project or the other.
I think there has also been a push within the EA community for members to take jobs in government and policy because altruistic individuals would apply same principles.
Jason
28 days ago
How many people have come to past events? Do you have any stories of how involvement with your group has made its members more effective (e.g., changed giving patterns, taken new jobs, etc.)?
Daniel Elabi
28 days ago
@Jason We have had about 5 - 10 persons for the meetup in Abuja, we have had over 50 in the last two years who attended from other parts of the country.
Our members through consistent involvement with us have been equipped to make informed decisions in their career, studies and projects, some of them have been actively involved in volunteering for EA aligned organizations.