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How Conservation Payments Ought to be Used
As detailed in last week’s blog, the report on ‘High Conservation Value Forests: An Instrument for Effective Forest Fiscal Federalism in India’ suggested the devising of a horizontal formula that comprises of a ‘High Conservation Value Forests Index’, a ‘Conservation Cost Index’ and a calculation of Opportunity Cost, namely, the revenue foregone by states by … Continue reading "How Conservation Payments Ought to be Used"
Do information campaigns result in greater collective action? Lessons from experience on the ground.
This blog post is the first of a series based on experiences my colleagues and I had while implementing an information campaign on school expenditures aimed at mobilizing Parent Teacher Associations in a small cluster of villages in Sehore District, Madhya Pradesh (MP). The experience reinforced some of the fundamental contradictions in current systems of … Continue reading "Do information campaigns result in greater collective action? Lessons from experience on the ground."
Potential Concerns with the Proposed Food Security Bill
On Friday, relevant ministries in the Government of India and the National Advisory council are going to start a round of negotiations to finalize the much awaited food security bill. The key issue up for debate is the question of universalization of the entitlement. The initial draft bill restricted the entitlement to the country’s poorest. … Continue reading "Potential Concerns with the Proposed Food Security Bill"
Case Studies in Accountability: The Kerala Ombudsman
The Case Studies in Accountability Series documents innovative accountability experiments being undertaken in the country. The first case study in this series documents the office of the Kerala Ombudsman, the only Ombudsman’s office of its kind in India that considers complaints against local governments. In 2001, Kerala became the first, and only State in India, to … Continue reading "Case Studies in Accountability: The Kerala Ombudsman"
What prompts collective action for accountability?
What prompts collective action for accountability? Information campaigns are premised on the assumption that information can act as a catalyst for mobilizing collective action. Yet, experience suggests that these links are neither implicit nor automatic. For instance, a recent evaluation by J-PAL MIT, of an information based education intervention to mobilize village education committees in Jaunpur, … Continue reading "What prompts collective action for accountability?"