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We evaluate the longer run impact of a local accountability intervention in primary health care provision in Uganda. Short-run improvements in health care delivery and health outcomes remained in the longer run despite minimal follow- up. 

This paper presents the results of two field experiments on local accountability in primary health care in Uganda. Efforts to stimulate beneficiary control, coupled with the provision of report cards on staff performance, resulted in significant improvements in health care delivery and health outcomes in both the short and the longer run.

Using data from a randomized experiment in primary health in Uganda, we tested whether social heterogeneity can explain why some communities managed to push for better health service delivery, whereas...

This paper presents a randomized field experiment on community-based monitoring of public primary health care providers in Uganda. Through two rounds of village meetings, localized nongovernmental organizations...

This paper discusses a randomized evaluation of a

Citizen Report Card project at the community level in primary health care in Uganda...

In 'Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomised Field Experiment on Community-Based Monitoring in Uganda' (2009), Bjorkman and Svensson show that a relatively simple intervention - providing community-level health service...

The papers studies the design and develop a Theory of Change (ToC) 

of the Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) for the NRLM self-help groups (SHGs) in the Indian state of Jharkhand...

The article provides a good overviews of main CBM characteristics and distinguishes CBM from other similar initiatives like Citizen Science...

Citizen science is blossoming in the water sciences and benefits to the scientific community are well reported. The experiences of involved citizens are less well researched, however, particularly in the Global South. To address this knowledge gap, we...

Despite thousands of citizen science projects, and the wealth of produced data raised awareness, the Citizen Science approach is to yet universally accepted. The authors of this short article put forward...