The phrase "affect efforts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how one thing influences or has an impact on the efforts or actions of individuals or groups.
Example: "The new policy changes will significantly affect efforts to improve employee productivity."
Alternatives: "influence initiatives" or "impact endeavors".
He added that the publicity surrounding the case would not affect efforts to stabilize the medical center's finances.
Wiltshire police insisted the loss of the book would not affect efforts to find out if Halliwell was a serial killer.
Senior American commanders feared executing Mr. Hashem partly because of how his hanging would affect efforts to persuade Sunnis to reconcile with a government now dominated by Shiites.
Still, aid organizations are deeply concerned that the military operations will affect efforts to reach starving people in Somalia's famine-stricken interior.
Some also feared executing Mr. Ahmed would affect efforts to persuade Sunnis to reconcile with a government now dominated by Shiites.
Those who think such trends are good for the anti-globalisation struggle should reflect on how they also affect efforts to forge a decent EU policy on refugees – basically, shattering them.
Our results advance literature investigating the interactive effects of controls and incentive contract framing by documenting a setting in which penalties negatively affect effort.
For example, it is reasonable to assume that unobserved factors will affect effort and NEET outcomes in opposite directions.
Finally, attention is given to the locus of control; thereby, it is possible to examine how the external context through ethnic identity and a specific aspect of individual personal traits captured by the locus of control affect effort in school.
For instance, the implementation of wage taxation allows us to analyze how changes in the wage tax rate, (tau _w), affect effort decisions and incentive systems (e.g., Katuscak 2004).
It also seems to affect effort.
