Yesterday I've attended a meeting with a government-related research agency. Basically, they have been given a significant amount of funding to conduct an assessment based or study on the effectiveness of some previously implemented strategy to solve the problem of dwindling marine resources. The federal and state governments have spent millions into executing the proposed solutions to the problem. Now, the grant or funding providers have started to question the effectiveness of the previous projects. What are the outcomes? Have they truly fulfilled their intended purposes? Now, this why the research agency has invited me for the meeting. They are trying to figure out how to answer the effectiveness of the stock abundance improvement that have costed millions.
I am here trying to understand and propose some forms of potential approaches to them. It is not easy since even the research problems were not properly and clearly formulated. They got the money and now has to show some results. How effective was the previous investments? What are the ROIs? All these are difficult questions to answer. I wish they had written just a simple and clear cut proposal, and they would not be in this mess, today.
The point is to make the research problems or questions clearer. And with this, maybe just maybe, we can try to figure out how to measure the effectiveness or the impact of the previous projects.
May God help us all!
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