We need to work together and gather information to develop effective aid. Creating better insight and comprehension of what is being done where is the main goal. 

There is no big brother to organize development and make sure, that aid is aimed at those who need the most. If we want to save the last bits of our environment and try to develop, in a more sustainable manner, it is up to us individuals to gather our shared knowledge and support the organizations, who are best at their work. Who is best is up to each individual to determine, as this based on personal preferences. Aid-e just want to give more easily accessible tools, which can be used to find organizations living up to your presonal requirements.

There is too much needless fumbling in the dark, which this sector cannot afford, as it relies on the trust of regular citizens. To make any headway, we need information to find out what types of development practices works best. We need information, that experts can analyze, and we need oversight, to know where to act.

Improved oversight and insight, of the available aid, will also help prevent misuse. Hopefully, that will increase the credibility, which most NGOs depend on. People are suffering and we can help them, so please stop choosing to forget or distance yourself, no matter how harsh the reality may be. Aid evaluator gives you a means to take the right action, on the topic or area that you care about. If you can just help find some of the lacking information, from your computer, phonebook, friends, whatever...it will be a big help. For Aid Evaluator to work; people from everywhere must contribute with the relevant knowledge they have access to. Work is always in Progress - Help add info by e-mailing: info@aidevaluator.com

Short term; the aim is to add information and make it easier for people to find the locally available help. Long term, there is no end to the aims but here are a few of them for various target groups:

1. Help People in Need; find Assistance

• Help people find the available assistance in their local area.
• Provide relevant information about the individual organizations, to those in need of assistance.
• Improve people's sense of community and look at what is lacking and what works,locally as well as globally.
• Allow user to find the best aid available and, thus, promote the programs that work.

2. Help Individual Donors; give based on personal criteria

• Provide relevant information about individual organizations, to those seeking to help.
• Promote transparency and, thus, increase the trust necessary for continued public support.
• Allow user to find the best aid available and, thus, promote the programs that work.

3. Help Organizations; show what they do

• Help small NGOs get visibility, and help create oversight of what exactly the big organizations do.
• Allow evaluation, which looks at more than simply administration costs.
• Promote transparency and, thus, increase the trust necessary for continued public support.
• Reduce evaluation costs; by making it easier for those involved to comment on the aid initiatives, (perhaps eventually).

4. Help Researchers; make more comprehensive and improved research

• Give researchers better data, with which to make solutions based on facts instead of guesses.
• Allow both the recipient, the donor and the aid-organization a place to take note of each other standpoints and perhaps gain a better understanding of the issues they are dealing with.
• Improve aid patterns and make them more transparent, comprehensible and efficient!

5. Help yourself

• Getting more and better informations so that you can find help, if it is available and relevant.
• Getting more and better informations so so that you can find the best place for you to help, based on your own personal preferences and experience.
• Giving you insight into who is doing what, so you won't feel quite as numb and powerless, if you can see someone is helping out there, if someone is actually helping of course.

 

Structure

I, Britt Rasmussen, am the CEO, I decide most things except when it comes to development of the webpage. Then Jim Cory has the final say, as I can't do the coding as well as he can.

We don't have much interest from anyone, so there are no members or board meetings. I don't want to enlist my friends and have them pay a membership fee. I want to be honest about the structure. There are no money involved, except from the webpage. Jim also works for free, as everyone should on this web-site. In Denmark, where I live, I cannot register as an NGO, there is no term for NGOs in our laws. One can chose to be a democratic membership organization or a business. Aid Evaluator is neither. I will not let random people change the core of Aid Evaluator and I will not earn money from it. I have asked the governing institutions to allow registration as an NGO but they are not in any rush to change the danish laws. I hope you can all see from my accounts that I am honest and open, even if I cannot be properly registered.

 

Background Story about the Founder

My name is Britt Rasmussen and I first got the idea for the Aid Evaluator in 2005, when Wikipedia showed that it was possible for individuals to build something together. I tried to find partners but failing in that I started trying to make the website, while taking my Master Degree in 'Development and International Relations. In 2007 experience from the EU and UN gave me further courage; that I was on the right path, and I began actively pursuing funding opportunities in 2008. This also failed, so to cater to Danish funds I made a sister site, which would only focus on Denmark. This was called The Charity Review. In 2009 I established it as an association, and took in members to help. For many years I kept up general assemblies, and kept trying to apply for funds, while simultaniously building on the site myself. There were also many individual volunteers working on different pages but my system, where I had to enter all the information people provided, did not really work out. In 2013 Jim Cory came on board and for the last many years he has helped me build a Drupal site, where people can enter information themselves. This was publish in 2016. There are many more features we would like to add, and we will continue to do so but for now what we really need is for others to see that this is important and to help us add all relevant information to the webpage.

 

About the Aid-E

I hope all organizations will make a page in here; to explain their set up and what they do in practice; Aid-E also has a page like this. Check it out here.

 

Disclaimer

As everybody is supposed to be able to add info, and even organizations are allowed to give their own information about themselves; we cannot be held responsible for something false. We will try to give better and more relevant information, but you must yourself determine, if you trust whoever is giving the information. We encourage you to write to us, if you notice any inaccuarate information.

 

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