Empowering poor people through public information? Lessons from a movie in rural India

Ravallion, Martin; Walle, Dominique van de; Dutta, Puja Vasudeva; Murgai, Rinku

doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.09.010

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“…Going back to the studies by Ravallion et al. () and Paluck () already cited, one may conjecture that the reason why actual usage of NREGS did not increase in Bihar or perceived trust did not increase in Rwanda is that those edutainment interventions did not successfully shift expectations that other viewers or listeners would adjust their behavior. Of course this is only a conjecture, and the design of the previous evaluations does not allow us to test this hypothesis.…”

Section: Educational Entertainmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In these cases, the edutainment program should be capable at the same time of convincing the individual about the importance of a certain behavior, and generating the conviction that other people will adjust their behavior. 12 Going back to the studies by Ravallion et al (2015) and already cited, one may conjecture that the reason why actual usage of NREGS did not increase in Bihar or perceived trust did not increase in Rwanda is that those edutainment interventions did not successfully shift expectations that other viewers or listeners would adjust their behavior. Of course this is only a conjecture, and the design of the previous evaluations does not allow us to test this hypothesis.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A second example comes from the work of Ravallion et al. (). The short movie they screened to inform communities about the availability of the NREGS program featured as main character a male migrant.…”

Section: Educational Entertainmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More generally, the few existing experimental evaluations of EE programs find effects on different dimensions. In some cases (e.g., Ravallion et al 2015) an impact is found on beliefs but not on behavior; in other cases (e.g., Paluck 2009) no impact is found on beliefs, but an impact is found on social norms. What underlies these differences is difficult to assess, given the variation in context, type of program, and focus of the message.…”

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Mass Media and Social Change: Can We Use Television to Fight Poverty?

Ferrara

2016

Journal of the European Economic Association

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This paper explores the potential use of entertainment media programs for achieving development goals. I propose a simple framework for interpreting media effects that hinges on three channels: (i) information provision, (ii) role modeling and preference change, and (iii) time use. I then review the existing evidence on how exposure to commercial television and radio affects outcomes such as fertility preferences, gender norms, education, migration, and social capital. I complement these individual country studies with cross‐country evidence from Africa and with a more in‐depth analysis for Nigeria, using the Demographic Health Surveys. I then consider the potential educational role of entertainment media, starting with a discussion of the psychological underpinnings and then reviewing recent rigorous evaluations of edutainment programs. I conclude by highlighting open questions and avenues for future research. (JEL: O12)

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Section: Educational Entertainmentmentioning

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Section: Open Questions and Way Forwardmentioning

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Section: Educational Entertainmentmentioning

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Section: Content Another Crucial Set Of Open Questions Relates To Thmentioning

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Mass Media and Social Change: Can We Use Television to Fight Poverty?

Ferrara

2016

Journal of the European Economic Association

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“…Lince-Deroche et al (2015) found that one of the most successful methods of reducing health challenges, such as unintended pregnancy and HIV/AIDS infection, is women's access to reproductive health information. Dipeolu (1992) and Ravallion, Van de Walle, Dutta and Murgai (2015) document the neglect of the supportive roles of library and information centres in promoting health information provision in Nigeria. Literature demonstrates the paucity of reproductive health information available to rural women in Nigeria, while what is available is often oral (Nwagwu & Ajama, 2011), or not packaged in languages and format familiar to them.…”

Section: Reproductive Health Information Access Among Rural Women In mentioning

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Reproductive Health Information Needs and Access Among Rural Women in Nigeria: A Study of Nsukka Zone in Enugu State

Ezema¹

2016

Afr. j. inf. commun. (Online)

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This article presents a study of the reproductive health information needs and access practices of rural women in Nsukka Cultural Zone, Enugu State, South East Nigeria. Three hundred and fifty women from 14 rural Nsukka communities were surveyed and 335 responses analysed. It was found that the main reproductive health information needs of the women were related to infertility; use of contraception; abortion; prevention of sexually transmitted diseases; antenatal care; and postnatal care. The main existing sources of reproductive health information were found to be: friends and relations; hospitals and health centres; churches; women's organisations; and radio and television. Fewer than half (46%) of the women participants were found to be accessing reproductive health information using their mobile phones. The author recommends enhanced rural development approaches that include: information provision through mobile communications; opening of rural libraries and information centres with Internet hubs; and sustainable adult literacy campaigns focused on reproductive health information. The study outlined in this article examined the reproductive health information needs of rural women in the Nsukka Cultural Zone of Enugu State in South East Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to: identify the major reproductive health information needs of women; find out what were the existing governmental and/ or non-governmental information access structures in the women's localities that could meet these information needs; determine the women's existing sources of reproductive health information; determine the challenges faced by women in accessing reproductive health information; and recommend strategies for improved access to reproductive health information. Keywords

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Citizen engagement in public services in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A mixed‐methods systematic review of participation, inclusion, transparency and accountability (PITA) initiatives

Waddington

Sonnenfeld

Finetti

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Campbell Systematic Reviews

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Background: How do governance interventions that engage citizens in public service delivery planning, management and oversight impact the quality of and access to services and citizens' quality of life? This systematic review examined high quality evidence from 35 citizen engagement programmes in low-and middle-income countries that promote the engagement of citizens in service delivery through four routes: participation (participatory priority setting); inclusion of marginalised groups; transparency (information on rights and public service performance), and/or citizen efforts to ensure public service accountability (citizen feedback and monitoring); collectively, PITA mechanisms. We collected quantitative and qualitative data from the included studies and used statistical meta-analysis and realist-informed framework synthesis to analyse the findings.Results: The findings suggest that interventions promoting citizen engagement by improving direct engagement between service users and service providers, are often effective in stimulating active citizen engagement in service delivery and realising improvements in access to services and quality of service provision, particularly for services that involve direct interaction between citizens and providers. However, in the absence of complementary interventions to address bottlenecks around service provider supply chains and service use, citizen engagement interventions alone may not improve key wellbeing outcomes for target communities or state-society relations. In addition, interventions promoting citizen engagement by increasing citizen pressures on politicians to hold providers to account, are not usually able to influence service delivery. Conclusions:The citizen engagement interventions studied were more likely to be successful: (1) where the programme targeted a service that citizens access directly from front-line staff, such as healthcare, as opposed to services accessed independently of service provider staff, such as roads; (2) where implementers were able to generate active support and buy-in for the intervention from both citizens and front-line public ---

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Empowering poor people through public information? Lessons from a movie in rural India

Cited by 46 publications

References 14 publications

Mass Media and Social Change: Can We Use Television to Fight Poverty?

Mass Media and Social Change: Can We Use Television to Fight Poverty?

Reproductive Health Information Needs and Access Among Rural Women in Nigeria: A Study of Nsukka Zone in Enugu State

Citizen engagement in public services in low‐ and middle‐income countries: A mixed‐methods systematic review of participation, inclusion, transparency and accountability (PITA) initiatives

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