Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment on Community-Based Monitoring in Uganda
Language:
English
Publisher:
World Bank
Series/Journal Title:
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper
Volume:
4268
Copyright:
2007
Pages:
64
Description:
This paper presents a randomized feld experiment on community-based monitoring of public primary health care providers in Uganda. Through two rounds of village meetings, localized NGOs encouraged communities to be more involved with the state of health service provision and strengthened their capacity to hold their local health providers to account for performance. A year after the intervention, treatment communities are more involved in monitoring the provider; health workers appear to exert higher effort to serve the community; and there was a positive impact on child health. [adapted from author]
Subject
Geographic Focus
Resource Type
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