Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals: Evidence-Based Insights for Effective Animal Advocacy resource is an ongoing project in which we distill key research on different animal advocacy interventions to help us evaluate their impact in different contexts. We have made this research publicly available to support informed decision making about how to help the most animals. You can read more about the methodology behind these evidence-based animal advocacy interventions here.

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While we hope advocates find this resource helpful for their strategic and tactical decisions, it is subject to various limitations. In particular:

  • This is not a systematic review. Due to capacity constraints, we were unable to conduct a full and comprehensive literature review and instead used our best judgment to select studies for inclusion.
  • We are working with a limited evidence base. For some interventions, we had to rely on lower-quality evidence or less relevant evidence from adjacent fields. Evidence on the long-term or indirect impacts of interventions is particularly limited.
  • It is not fully comprehensive. Our Menu of Interventions captures the interventions the charities we evaluate for recommendation or assess as potential grantees use most commonly, but it doesn’t capture every approach that exists in the movement.
  • Interventions do not operate in isolation. The available evidence largely evaluates interventions independently, but their real-world effectiveness is shaped by the broader ecosystem of actors, complementary interventions, and contextual factors. This limits how much findings can be generalized to specific advocacy environments.

As such, we encourage advocates to consider the evidence presented alongside their on-the-ground knowledge of how interventions function and complement one another in specific contexts for maximum impact with these evidence-based animal advocacy interventions.

Read the full article about evidence-based animal advocacy interventions by Max Taylor at Animal Charity Evaluators.