The Social Impact of Social Fundsin Jamaica : A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Participation,Targeting, and Collective Action in Community-Driven Development

Rao, Vijayendra ; Ibá ; ñ ; ez, Ana Marí ; a

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: ANTHROPOLOGISTS;    AUTHORITY;    BASIC SERVICES;    BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENT;    BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENTS;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-2970
RP-ID  :  WPS2970

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The authors develop an evaluation methodthat combines qualitative evidence with quantitative surveydata analyzed with propensity score methods on matchedsamples to study the impact of a participatorycommunity-driven social fund on preference targeting,collective action, and community decision-making. The datacome from a case study of five pairs of communities inJamaica where one community in the pair has received fundsfrom the Jamaica social investment fund (JSIF) while theother has not-but has been picked to match the fundedcommunity in its social and economic characteristics. Thequalitative data reveal that the social fund process iselite-driven and decision-making tends to be dominated by asmall group of motivated individuals. But by the end of theproject there was broad-based satisfaction with the outcome.The quantitative data from 500 households mirror thesefindings by showing that ex-ante the social fund does notaddress the expressed needs of the majority of individualsin the majority of communities. By the end of theconstruction process, however, 80 percent of the communityexpressed satisfaction with the outcome. An analysis of thedeterminants of participation shows that better educated andbetter networked individuals dominate the process.Propensity score analysis reveals that the JSIF has had acausal impact on improvements in trust and the capacity forcollective action, but these gains are greater for eliteswithin the community. Both JSIF and non-JSIF communities aremore likely now to make decisions that affect their liveswhich indicates a broad-based effort to promoteparticipatory development in the country, but JSIFcommunities do not show higher levels of community-drivendecisions than non-JSIF communities. The authors shed lighton the complex ways in which community-driven developmentworks inside communities-a process that is deeply imbeddedwithin Jamaica's sociocultural and political context.