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The External Evaluation of the Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Program (DEPP)
No full textThis proposed research aims to conduct an External Evaluation of the Disasters and Emergencies Preparedness Programme (DEPP). The primary outcome of the DEPP is a significant improvement in the speed and delivery of humanitarian assistance to disaster affected communities in high risk countries due to the current: current global investment in emergency preparedness is extremely low, and more evidence is required to inform future investment in disaster and emergency preparedness and response. This External Evaluation will provide robust evidence on the successes and limitations of the DEPP in order to better inform future interventions with the ultimate goal of mitigating the impact of disasters and emergencies globally. To generate such evidence, this External Evaluation will target organizations and organizational staff members who are direct beneficiaries of the DEPP. This study population will be evaluated against a set of control organizations to provide robust evidence for this research. Additional evidence with be generated from in depth interviews with select governmental and UN officials. This research will be centered in Nairobi, Kenya with additional data collection throughout Kenya. This research will provide unique and unparalleled evidence to inform emergency preparedness and response efforts within Kenya. The result of this study will be a body of research that will contribute towards building capacity at the organizational level within Kenya and across the globe to better prepare for and respond to emergencies
Fork of Perceptions of Relationships in Kenya: Investigating Attitudes and Norms for Various Relationship Structures among Kenyans
No full textThis study intends to address the gap that exists in the current literature on understanding people’s attitudes as well as perceptions of social norms surrounding different relationship structures in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, we wish to investigate how people perceive relationships in Kenya by unpacking attitudes and norms for various relationship structures. The focus of this study is on informal relationships, because unlike formal marriage institutions they are understudied in the literature, particularly in the Kenyan context.
Additional focus will be on young women’s perceptions of informal relationship structures and the societal norms for them. Women often bear a disproportionate responsibility when it comes to safe sex and birth control practices and young women may be at greater personal risk in informal relationships, especially in those that are intergenerational and/or transactional in their nature. Investigating how young women perceive and experience different relationship structurestherefore helps us to unpack social norm setting for a crucial demographic group and better understand how women as key actors, instigators and participants of informal relationships view and make decisions about thes
Cross-Cultural Validation Off The Record
No full textDo Kibera residents subscribe to the Economist? And do they know a feminist named Linda? We design Kenyan versions of measures used to identify several ‘canonical biases’ in behavioral science. The objective is to test whether these contextual measures produce different results compared with the originals with our Kibera sample
Addressing the knowledge gap: How to bridge the gap and strengthen the health research ecosystem in Africa
No full textDeriving a methodological framework to empirically assess African research institutions' and universities' health research capacity using publicly-available information and an indicator-based assessment of research capacity
Primed, but not engaged: the poor performance of self-efficacy primes in promoting civic engagement, in a laboratory experiment in Uganda
No full textCivic engagement is considered an important element of a healthy polity. Yet, many attempts to induce it fail, and experimental evidence on ‘what works’ to induce it is limited. Further, most experimental studies in this area of research focus on self-reported or low-cost proxy behavior outcomes. This paper describes a laboratory experiment with 809 participants to measure the impact of short behaviorally-informed messages on civic engagement in Uganda. We randomly assign participants to three treatment audio messages, applying different self-efficacy enhancing techniques, and one control audio, and measure their effect on two primary components of civic engagement: a lab measure of attention to political and pre-political information, and a real-world activity measure: attendance at a community meeting. We find that short audio messages can prompt people to pay more attention to pre-political information, but do not encourage overall civic engagement behavior, and some treatments produce a significant negative effect on our measures of engagement. We also find that a rights-focused message, closely modelling current civil society practice, does not generate increased civic engagement. We conclude that one-off behaviorally informed audio messages are insufficient to generate civic engagement in this context
Perceptions of Relationships in Kenya: Investigating Attitudes and Norms for Various Relationship Structures among Kenyans
No full textThis study intends to address the gap that exists in the current literature on understanding people’s attitudes as well as perceptions of social norms surrounding different relationship structures in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, we wish to investigate how people perceive relationships in Kenya by unpacking attitudes and norms for various relationship structures. The focus of this study is on informal relationships, because unlike formal marriage institutions they are understudied in the literature, particularly in the Kenyan context.
Additional focus will be on young women’s perceptions of informal relationship structures and the societal norms for them. Women often bear a disproportionate responsibility when it comes to safe sex and birth control practices and young women may be at greater personal risk in informal relationships, especially in those that are intergenerational and/or transactional in their nature. Investigating how young women perceive and experience different relationship structurestherefore helps us to unpack social norm setting for a crucial demographic group and better understand how women as key actors, instigators and participants of informal relationships view and make decisions about thes
Community Forest Monitoring and Awareness of Forest Use Rules in Uganda
No full textThis study proposes to investigate the effects of (a combination of) community monitoring – of forest use and threats to the forest– and an increased awareness of forest use rules, on forest conservation practices and household welfare. The proposed study is a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT), the study population being villages which have de jure management rights over some forested area. These villages will be randomly assigned to receive no, one or both treatments from: (a) Community monitoring – training of a number of village inhabitants to measure forest use and threats present in the community (co)managed forest – with monthly reports on forest use being discussed in village meetings and displayed in a public place in the village; and (b) Improved awareness of forest use rules – each month all consenting households in the village receive a text message which clarifies one of the community’s forest use rules. The study proposes to investigate the effect of these treatments on forest stock, forest use and household welfare. These outcomes will be measured through an on-the-ground assessment of forest stocks and forest use, a household survey and remote sensing data
Does Participation in Group Decision-Making Increase Investment in Public Goods?
No full textThis research involves controlled laboratory experiments conducted in a developing country context, and it proposes to examine the hypothesis that when individuals are engaged in group decision-making regarding the creation of a public good, they will be more willing to invest in that good over the long-run. In addition to providing a rigorous experimental test of whether participation in group decision-making processes increases compliance with decision outcomes, this project also goes further by distinguishing between differing causal mechanisms to explain the results. If group decision-making does increase investment, does it do so because (a) outcomes align better with people’s initial preferences? Or (b) because people’s initial preferences are changed as a result of participation in the group decision-making process
Social Distancing in informal Settlements: Practices and Attitudes of Kibera’s Inhabitants
No full textWe’re planning to run a longitudinal study on how social distancing affects the lives and experiences of Kibera’s inhabitants. 1000 participants will receive individual invitations to take a survey with 28 questions. This will happen four times with four weeks in between, which means that we will collect data at four different points in time. The estimated response rate is 15%, which means that we will collect about 150 completed surveys each wave.
The main research questions are:
• How do Kibera’s inhabitants practice social distancing?
• What are their attitudes towards social distancing?
• How does social distancing affect their interpersonal spatial dynamics?
• How is their overall satisfaction with life affected by social distancing?
• And how do all of these factors vary by demographic groups and over time?
Additionally, the aim of this study is to generate methodological insights into
• The overall response rate in a set-up like this
• Differential response rates and differential attrition in a panel study with
• respondents from Kibera
• The reliability of the database regarding the contacts’ place of residence
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