Question: Instruction: Please read the lecture note I provided below. After reading, please come up with 5 questionswith answers using the lecture note. Answers for the Questions must be short answer (2-3 sentences) or short paragraph (about 5 sentences).
LEC 1 COMMUNITY MONITORING
Power to the people...
• Evaluates a randomized field experiment on community-based monitoring of public primary health care providers in Uganda
• Local NGOs conducted two rounds of village meetings aimed at:
• Encouragingcommunitiestomonitorpublic health providers
• Strengthening their capacity to hold these providers accountable
• In these meetings they discussed baseline levels of health provider performance relative to other organizations and government standards, and they encouraged community members to make a plan of action.
• Not much data on these meetings as the researchers didn't want an external presence.
• A year after the meetings, treatment communities were more involved in monitoring their health providers.
• And these providers were performing better in terms of real outcomes-reduced child mortality (33%!) and increased child weight.
This has been a very influential study
• It's the result we all wanted---with a cheap and quick intervention, communities can make a plan to monitor their own service providers and will see huge gains.
• Some thought the results were too good to be true.
• The authors shared their data and their results held up---no cherry picking and/or p-hacking. But it is a small sample (50 health centers).
• But others tried similar things and didn't find similar impacts---for example, grassroots monitoring of road building in Indonesia didn't work when government audits did.
• Along come Parkerson, Posner, and Raffler.
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Attachment:- LEC.rar