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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