Effective community mobilization: evidence from Mali

Experts argue that the adoption of healthy sanitation practices, such as hand washing and latrine use, requires focusing on the entire community rather than individual behaviors. According to this view, one limiting factor in ending open defecation lies in the capacity of the community to collective...

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Autores principales: Alzúa, María Laura, Cardenas, Juan Camilo, Djebbari, Habiba
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Publicado: 2025
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Ciencias Económicas
public good provision
behavioral experiments
community-based development
sanitation
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1773882025-03-14T20:11:30Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/177388 Effective community mobilization: evidence from Mali Alzúa, María Laura Cardenas, Juan Camilo Djebbari, Habiba 2025-03 2025-03-14T13:57:43Z en Ciencias Económicas public good provision behavioral experiments community-based development sanitation Experts argue that the adoption of healthy sanitation practices, such as hand washing and latrine use, requires focusing on the entire community rather than individual behaviors. According to this view, one limiting factor in ending open defecation lies in the capacity of the community to collectively act toward this goal. Each member of a community bears the private cost of contributing by washing hands and using latrines, but the benefits through better health outcomes depend on whether other community members also opt out of open defecation. We rely on a community-based intervention carried out in Mali as an illustrative example (Community-Led Total Sanitation or CLTS). Using a series of experiments conducted in 121 villages and designed to measure the willingness of community members to contribute to a local public good, we investigate the process of participation in a collective action problem setting. Our focus is on two types of activities: (1) gathering of community members to encourage public discussion of the collective action problem, and (2) facilitation by a community champion of the adoption of individual actions to attain the socially preferred outcome. In games, communication helps raise public good provision, and both open discussion and facilitated ones have the same impact. When a community member facilitates a discussion after an open discussion session, public good contributions increase, but there are no gains from opening up the discussion after a facilitated session. Community members who choose to contribute in the no-communication treatment are not better facilitators than those who choose not to contribute. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Articulo Documento de trabajo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
public good provision
behavioral experiments
community-based development
sanitation
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public good provision
behavioral experiments
community-based development
sanitation
Alzúa, María Laura
Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Djebbari, Habiba
Effective community mobilization: evidence from Mali
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
public good provision
behavioral experiments
community-based development
sanitation
description Experts argue that the adoption of healthy sanitation practices, such as hand washing and latrine use, requires focusing on the entire community rather than individual behaviors. According to this view, one limiting factor in ending open defecation lies in the capacity of the community to collectively act toward this goal. Each member of a community bears the private cost of contributing by washing hands and using latrines, but the benefits through better health outcomes depend on whether other community members also opt out of open defecation. We rely on a community-based intervention carried out in Mali as an illustrative example (Community-Led Total Sanitation or CLTS). Using a series of experiments conducted in 121 villages and designed to measure the willingness of community members to contribute to a local public good, we investigate the process of participation in a collective action problem setting. Our focus is on two types of activities: (1) gathering of community members to encourage public discussion of the collective action problem, and (2) facilitation by a community champion of the adoption of individual actions to attain the socially preferred outcome. In games, communication helps raise public good provision, and both open discussion and facilitated ones have the same impact. When a community member facilitates a discussion after an open discussion session, public good contributions increase, but there are no gains from opening up the discussion after a facilitated session. Community members who choose to contribute in the no-communication treatment are not better facilitators than those who choose not to contribute.
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author Alzúa, María Laura
Cardenas, Juan Camilo
Djebbari, Habiba
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Djebbari, Habiba
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title Effective community mobilization: evidence from Mali
title_short Effective community mobilization: evidence from Mali
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