The phrase "aim to affect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing intentions or goals related to influencing or changing something.
Example: "Our organization aims to affect positive change in the community through various outreach programs."
Alternatives: "strive to influence" or "seek to impact".
At the other end of the scale are the initiatives that aim to affect people's attitudes on the ground.
To the extent that migration affects convergence in aging, policy makers may aim to affect the direction of migration flows between regions and countries.
For these reasons, a number of farmers practising forest pasturing are active members of associations meant to strengthen and protect traditional breeds and which in various ways aim to affect policymaking within this field.
They argued that schools aim to affect non-cognitive traits, such as obedience to superiors, by socializing students to function well and without complaint in the hierarchical structure of the modern corporation.
These statements neither express the speaker's belief, nor aim to affect the belief of the addressee in any way, since their falsehood is common knowledge (cf. Williams 2002, 74).
When considering wildlife in agricultural landscapes, policy's performance depends both on human (farmers) actions, which the policies aim to affect, and wildlife responses to land-use and management changes imposed by farmers.
Ultimately, the transitional jobs programs aimed to affect longer-term employment after the program period when program group members were no longer working in transitional jobs.
Solute diffusion treatments were: KCl (as a control solute), N and P (to investigate the effect of nutrient enrichment), or the herbicide isoproturon (as a "high impact" control, which aimed to affect biofilm growth in a way detectable by all assays).
For Tevel aims to affect its volunteers as much as the volunteers strive to impact the Nepali communities wherein they work; the very experience of encountering something like Nepali society and the ongoing attempts to contribute to its organic and value-respective growth, could benefit these volunteers as members of their own societies, upon their return home.
Policies aimed at affecting the size of the labor force should be supplemented by policies aimed to affect productivity growth through investment in human capital.
Direction refers to actions taken at a system level aiming to affect all the regulated organizations, e.g. developing health-care legislation and national guidelines for delivery of care.
