Analysis means your examination and evaluation of information that may be publicly available, but which reveals information that is not generally known or available to the public.
What this really means is not that we should avoid evaluation, but that everyone in the process has a responsibility for how they calibrate the physics of their role within these systems.
While high-end evaluation methods like randomized control trials (RCTs) are the surest means of determining what interventions in fact cause certain outcomes, they are also time-consuming and costly and beyond the means of many, if not most, mainstream nonprofits.