East and Southern Africa Archives - Page 7 of 14 - Busara Center for Behavioral Economics

Value for money? Community Targeting in Vote-Buying and Politician Accountability

Community targeting of vote payments — defined as the saturation of entire neighborhoods with cash prior to elections — is widespread in the developing world. In this paper, we utilize…

Improving teacher involvement and cook performance for a national school feeding program

Can community ownership of school feeding programs improve delivery of services? The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) was established in 2015 by the Federal Government of Nigeria to…

Assessing the behavioral effects of conflict exposure

How does exposure to conflict affect social preferences? There is a growing body of evidence that exposure to violent conflict affects the deep determinants of behavior. These include individuals’ level…

Self-efficacy as a driver of civic engagement

What psychological factors motivate an individual to engage with issues affecting their communities? Active engagement in community issues is a critical driver of accountable political systems. Civic engagement can be…

Behavioral barriers to searching and switching among banking services

Can we support more switching and searching among banking services? Over the past few years, the lack of competitive pressures in the Kenyan banking sector has been identified as a…

Driving financial inclusion using digital learning

Can digital learning tools improve financial engagement? In June 2014, Vodacom Tanzania and the Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) launched M-Pawa, a mobile savings and loan product in Tanzania. The…

Increasing smallholder uptake of seed insurance

How do we make adoption of insurance easier for farmers using behavioral science? ACRE Africa, the brand name of Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise Ltd. (ACRE), links farmers to insurance…

Nudges to improve digital fundraising activity

How can behavioral science improve digital fundraising momentum? M-Changa, founded in 2011, is a digital platform which enables users to conduct “Harambee” fundraising online. M-Changa aims to simplify the fundraising…

Increasing the uptake and usage of mobile money as a savings device

Can simple messaging induce saving habits? The mobile money landscape in Tanzania has been rapidly evolving, closely following Kenya in terms of total penetration. In 2017 more than 50% of…

Improving savings rates among cash transfer recipients

How can we help cash transfer programs better target long-term goals? The Household Uplifting Programme (HUP), otherwise known as the Conditional Cash Transfer, aims at responding to deficiencies in capacity…