Effective Altruism
Speakers: Fanny Polet, Ilja De Coster, Kris Martens, Maarten Goethals
Language: Dutch
Moderator: Erik Raspoet
Being great at doing good
What if we could only do good things? And what if we did those good things in the best possible way?
The movement around effective altruism is a plea to 'become better at doing good'. More than that, it is a call to give and to continue giving to profit organisations.
Belgian NGOs have invested a lot in following up and measuring their results through monitoring and evaluations. And yet, not everything that counts, can be counted (and not everything that can be counted, counts).
How does the ambition of effective altruism clash with results that are difficult to measure (behavioural change, advocacy work, movement,...)? And how meaningful is it to invest more in results that can be demonstrated to increase private fundraising?
Speakers
Fanny Polet
Fanny Polet is the new director of Viva Salud. Previously, she coordinated the joint programme of 3 NGOs: KIYO, Solidagro and Viva Salud. She was mainly responsible for the monitoring and evaluation of the programmes.
In addition, she followed up on the impact evaluation over three years conducted by HIVA (KULeuven). Accountability and ensuring that the funds go correctly to the projects were part of her duties.
Kris Martens
Kris Martens is a board member of the nonprofit organisation Effectief Altruïsme België. He works in mental healthcare (for the non-profit Psyche and as a clinical psychologist), and also provides career counselling with the effective altruism framework.
Maarten Goethals
Maarten Goethals is an action researcher at ALTER.Today. He founded EIGHT.world in 2015 to be an organisation for action research on the use of unconditional cash transfers as a tool in fighting extreme poverty.
Ilja De Coster
Ilja De Coster, MInstF(Cert), is Senior Consultant Fundraising. For almost 20 years now, he has been supporting the fundraising efforts of various large and small organisations and is a regularly requested speaker at home and abroad.
Since 2017, Ilja De Coster has been Chief Platform Architect and Fundraising Data Strategist at the international fundraising agency The DonorVoice. Previously, he worked for Sensoa and Amnesty International Flanders, among others. He is founding vice president of Fundraisers Alliance Belgium. Internationally, he is a member of EUConsult, the umbrella association of consultants for the nonprofit sector and was the Belgian country ambassador for the International Fundraising Congress.
