发展项目中的社区监督与社会问责：来自乌干达的实验证据
Community monitoring and social accountability in development projects: Experimental evidence from Uganda
Journal of Development Economics · 2025 · [{"name": "Nathan Fiala", "affiliation": ["RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research"]}, {"name": "Patrick Prémand", "affiliation": []}]
中文摘要
更强的社区监督能否提高地方发展项目的有效性？我们针对一项覆盖乌干达北半部的大规模社会问责项目开展了随机实验，以分析社区监督培训和项目绩效信息能否改善成果。我们发现，仅有社区监督培训只会对项目产出（如交付的牲畜数量或其患病概率）产生微小的改善。将培训与项目绩效信息相结合，会使家庭层面的牲畜数量显著且大幅增加，而仅提供社区监督培训或仅提供项目绩效信息则无法达到此效果。这些家庭层面的影响，与牲畜交付社区后在更强监督与合作下（例如在应对动物疾病方面）管理和照料状况改善的情形相一致。相反，我们没有发现证据表明这些影响是由地方领导人或政府官员的反应所驱动的。结果表明，通过加强社区参与，可以改善地方发展项目的绩效。
Abstract
Does stronger community monitoring increase the effectiveness of local development projects? We conduct a randomized experiment with a large-scale social accountability program covering the northern half of Uganda to analyze whether training in community monitoring and information on project performance improve outcomes. We find that community monitoring training only induces small improvements in project output, such as the number of animals delivered or their likelihood of being sick. The combination of training and information on project performance leads to a significant and substantial increase in livestock at the household level, while providing either community monitoring training or information on project performance alone does not. These impacts at the household level are consistent with improvements in the management and care of livestock after their delivery to the community, with stronger monitoring and cooperation, for instance related to animal illness. In contrast, we do not find evidence of impacts driven by responses from local leaders or government officials. The results suggest that the performance of local development projects can improve through stronger community engagement.