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The first round of University-Wide Collaboration Grants on Climate Change will fund eight Duke University faculty teams to lay the groundwork for new research on climate change and its impacts. The teams will investigate topics including planetary engineering, climate justice, low-carbon heating and cooling methods, lithium mining, agricultural histories, coastal resilience, and the impacts of extreme weather on forest ecosystems.
We hear a lot about how pilot interventions, run by an NGO, have a big impact in randomized control trials. The recommendation of the study is to scale this up. But policy skeptics say: “oh no, that’s an NGO pilot, it won’t work if government does this as scale.” Into this debate comes a fascinating new paper by Faraz Usmani, Marc Jeuland, and Subhrendu Pattanayak.
Usmani and co. look at how prior exposure to an NGO affects take up and use of a clean-cookstove intervention. Bottom line: it matters a lot. What may be surprising is that this happens when the research team, not the NGO delivers the actual intervention. So it’s about prior exposure and experience – not NGO delivery experience or familiarity with context and clients.