In addition to the policies marked in green above, EAST has the following policies, which seem beneficial, though we have not researched them extensively:. A charity with a healthy culture acts responsibly toward all stakeholders: staff, volunteers, donors, beneficiaries, and others in the community. Respondents noted in an open-response box that their workplace is respectful and collaborative, and their work is positively challenging.
According to our culture survey, EAST has an overall level of employee engagement higher than the average of charities we evaluated this year. EAST reports that employees do not have clearly defined essential functions for all positions and do not regularly evaluate performance.
We think distributing regular culture surveys could help EAST to better understand their workplace culture and identify further areas for improvement. All staff that participated in our culture survey agreed that EAST has members from diverse backgrounds.
EAST has a written procedure for filing complaints and explicit protocols for addressing concerns or allegations of harassment 50 or discrimination. Because staff feel overall protected from harassment and discrimination, and EAST has in place systems to prevent and handle harassment and discrimination in the workplace, we are not highly concerned about this finding.
EAST does not offer regular trainings on topics such as harassment and discrimination in the workplace. Some respondents mentioned that no training is needed. Overall, we believe that EAST is as diverse, equitable, and inclusive as the average charity we evaluated this year.
Charities with a clear and well-developed strategy are more likely to be successful at setting and achieving their goals. Additionally, we assess the extent to which their strategic planning process incorporates the views of all their staff and board members and whether the frequency of this process is adequate, given the nature of their work.
There are many different approaches to strategic planning, and often an approach that is well suited for one organization may not work well for others. Thus, in this section, we are not looking for a particular approach to strategy.
They report that in the context of the global movement, they explore new approaches that work within an East Asian cultural sphere. They report that in Taiwan, their campaigns are focused on farmed animal issues, which are neglected by other organizations. They also note that they see cooperation with other organizations as a central strategy for EAST.
EAST does not have a formal strategic plan. They prefer an informal process so that they can remain agile and responsive to opportunities that may arise throughout the year.
Following goal-setting, an action plan is developed, and a member of staff is assigned to each goal. They do not hold retrospective meetings—i. In general, we think it is valuable for an organization to have a strategic plan to guide their actions. That said, EAST is focused primarily on policy change, which requires the ability to quickly pivot in response to changing circumstances.
Therefore , in their case, a formal strategic plan may be less valuable. Their goal setting appears to be carried out well and monitored frequently. However, we think they could benefit from conducting retrospective meetings following major projects. This will aid them in retaining and strengthening successful programs and modifying or discontinuing less successful programs, and will enable them to see if or when it is necessary to change their organizational structures.
When such systems of improvement work well, all stakeholders benefit: Leadership is able to refine their strategy, staff better understand the purpose of their work, and donors can be more confident in the impact of their donations. However, after observing the number of new companion animal organizations in Taiwan and the relative neglectedness of advocacy work for farmed animals and animals used for testing, they pivoted strongly toward those cause areas.
We think farmed animals are a particularly high-priority cause area compared to both companion animals and animals used in testing, so we think they could benefit from further shifting toward farmed animals. That said, it is important to acknowledge that any shift on the level of cause area is difficult to achieve, and we think EAST has adapted well to change. This kind of movement-building work is likely neglected across the movement as a whole, and we think EAST has done well to identify and proactively use their position to address this.
They have also switched their other in-person events such as talks through their TAPC to being online. Additionally, EAST has put resources into a campaign that targets the live transport of chickens to be slaughtered at markets.
The campaign aligns with the health concerns around live markets that have become more prescient in light of the pandemic. Overall, we believe that EAST is just as able as the average charity evaluated this year to adequately respond to success and failure. This impact is addressed in Criterion 3: Cost Effectiveness. We consider an intervention to be weakly effective if we believe it is unlikely to have a positive impact on the relevant outcome. We consider an intervention to be moderately effective if we believe it has some positive impact on the relevant outcome, though relatively less than other interventions.
We consider an intervention to be highly effective if we believe it has a clear positive impact on the relevant outcome. Cotra Animal Charity Evaluators We show data for the last five years. We do not list any expansions beyond what the charity itself plans to implement.
We acknowledge that charities may differ in how ambitious their reported plans are independent of what they can realize. Such a difference in reporting could bias our estimates of the room for more funding. For estimating the salary of a given role, we used the following sources of information in order of priority: current and past job postings by that charity, current and past job postings by similar charities, seniority and type of job, average wages in the country of hire.
Note that our cost estimates for non-staff expansions account for the partial correlation between costs for new staff and non-staff costs that involve staff.
We generally have high confidence that reserves can be replenished if funds are available, and low confidence in the amount of unexpected expenditures the charity may have.
This is an estimate to account for additional expenditures beyond what has been specifically outlined in this model. We assume a linear trend in revenue. EAST reported an additional program—research—that they see as supporting all their other programs. Since they did not report any key results unique to this program, we considered all expenditures for their research program to be general operating expenses.
This term is likely to contribute to a lack of awareness about the origins of food and could make it difficult for consumers to understand the effects of their food choices. To estimate their expenditures, we took their reported expenditures for this program and added a portion of their general non-program expenditures weighted by the size of this program compared to their other programs. This allowed us to incorporate their general organizational running costs into our consideration of their cost effectiveness.
All estimates are rounded to two significant figures. This claim has been verified. For more information, see this explainer page on subjective confidence intervals. For more information, see Simcikas and Open Philanthropy Some of the results of this program contribute to increasing the prevalence of anti-speciesist values, while other results contribute to strengthening the animal advocacy movement. For more recent achievements — , see Criterion 3: Cost Effectiveness.
Taiwan Animal Equality Association screenshot. According to Lin, a malnourished alpaca photographed in September had died, while another alpaca had died from heat exhaustion.
Porcupines at ranch appear to have skin disease. The TSPCA and TAEA accused the government of apathy and allowing Jingyuan Ranch to operate when it had repeatedly gone back on its promises to make improvements to the animals' living conditions and stop demonstrating them.
On Aug. As for neglect, the Liberty Times reported that the APO had issued a warning and asked the operators to make improvements within a deadline. According to CNA, while aggressive animals such as lions and hippopotamuses can be given up only after registering them with the relevant government departments, mild-tempered animals may be adopted by civilians.
In response to the allegations, Jingyuan Ranch announced the cancelation of all animal exhibitions and interactions via Facebook post on Friday. The ranch said it will continue operating with the twin goals of "human sustainability" and "technological environment protection" and do its best to create a more comfortable space.
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