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| dc.title | Community Monitoring Improves Public Service Provision at Scale: Experimental Evidence from a Child Development Program in Nicaragua |
| dc.contributor.author | Lopez Boo, Florencia |
| dc.contributor.author | Leer, Jane |
| dc.contributor.author | Kamei, Akito |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Social Protection and Health Division |
| dc.coverage | Nicaragua |
| dc.date.available | 2020-11-19T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2020-11-19T10:30:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | Expanding small-scale interventions without lowering quality and attenuating impact is a critical policy challenge. Community monitoring overs a low-cost quality assurance mechanism by making service providers account-able to local citizens, rather than distant administrators. This paper provides experimental evidence from a home visit parenting program implemented at scale by the Nicaraguan government, with two types of monitoring: (a) institutional monitoring; and (b) community monitoring. We find d a positive intent-to-treat effect on child development, but only among groups randomly assigned to community monitoring. Our findings show promise for the use of community monitoring to ensure quality in large-scale government-run social programs. |
| dc.format.extent | 72 |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002869 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Community-Monitoring-Improves-Public-Service-Provision-at-Scale-Experimental-Evidence-from-a-Child-Development-Program--in-Nicaragua.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Early Childhood Development |
| dc.subject | Child Development |
| dc.subject | Citizen Participation |
| dc.subject | Childhood |
| dc.subject | Home Visit |
| dc.subject | Community Development |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I24 - Education and Inequality |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J13 - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth |
| dc.subject.jelcode | I20 - Education and Research Institutions: General |
| dc.subject.keywords | Latin America;Nicaragua;Community monitoring |
| dc.type | Technical Notes |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | IDB-TN-02057 |
| idb.operation | NI-L1059 |