Applying Behavioural Insights to Anticorruption Luke Ravenscroft Monica

Applying Behavioural Insights to Anti-corruption Luke Ravenscroft Monica Wills Silva © Behavioural Insights ltd

Applying Behavioural Insights to Anti-corruption Applying behavioural insights to: Argentina – encourage integrity in civil service Colombia – monitoring in public service delivery Mexico – encourage government contractors to disclose information © Behavioural Insights ltd

Applying Behavioural Insights to Anticorruption • Feedback from academics – Harvard event, events and discussions with local academics • Review of academic literature • From policy problems to identifying key behaviours © Behavioural Insights ltd

Our framework - TEST Target Define the target Explore Understand the context Solution Design the intervention Trial Test, learn, adapt © Behavioural Insights ltd

COLOMBIA © Behavioural Insights ltd

Our key partners in Colombia © Behavioural Insights ltd

Target & Explore – Why the School Meals Programme? After our field-visits we identified three main ways in which corruption may be occurring in the PAE: 1. Over-ordering: more meals are ordered than are needed. 2. Under-supplying: fewer meals and smaller portions are provided than committed contractually. 3. Poor quality: meals are cooked with lowerquality ingredients. “You should come more often! The food is so much better when you are here!” Aguachica, Cesar [You. Tube] © Behavioural Insights ltd

Target & Explore – Key fieldwork findings Lack of information on the entitlements of the children Lack of information on the accountability mechanism Lack of information on the performance of providers and what to measure it against © Behavioural Insights ltd

Target & Explore – Two phases Phase 1 – Learning phase. Test and understand: Improving the quantity and the quality of the food served at the schools through parental engagement How feasible it was to obtain the phone numbers of parents Variations in the content of the SMS on parental engagement Phase 2 – Field trial. Combined effect of the audits, workshops and SMS. Scale the results from the first phase Provide public policy recommendations © Behavioural Insights ltd

Trial – Encouraging parental engagement Hola Marta. Hoy Maria debio comer carne, brocoli y arroz. Si comio eso? SIN COSTO responde SI o NO ‘Winner stays on’ design © Behavioural Insights ltd

Trial – Test, Learn, Adapt – 2 nd Phase PHASE 2 – Field trial SMS messages Workshops Audits © Behavioural Insights ltd

Trial – Test, Learn, Adapt – 2 nd Phase Sources of information Audits: 959 audits to 209 schools Household survey: 4, 214 households SMS messages: 22, 700 parents Base line (202 schools) and administrative data © Behavioural Insights ltd

Trial – We did not find an effect on the quantity of the food

Trial – Suggestive evidence – before and after exploratory analysis Compliance with menus 43. 4% increase in compliance First visit Last two visits © Behavioural Insights ltd

Policy implications © Behavioural Insights ltd

New opportunities Procurement in PAE and citizen engagement with new procurement platform SMS to citizens and veedores Encouraging ETC to run procurement process on the e-procurement platform. Procurement of food providers for prisons and hospitals © Behavioural Insights ltd

A couple of lessons so far… 1. Clear policy impact from applying behavioural insights: • Results in each country • Additional trials • Momentum behind applying behavioural insights 2. You can run robust experiments in Anti-corruption: • Designed and run 5 academic-level experiments in a policy area desperately lacking rigorous evidence 3. But we can still push the boundaries and pursue more complex corruption policy challenges: • Corruption reporting in Argentina • Bribes to prosecutors and asset declaration in Mexico • Procurement and provider selection in Colombia • Nigeria, Indonesia, Tanzania. © Behavioural Insights ltd

Luke Ravenscroft – Principal Advisor Luke. ravenscroft@bi. team Monica Wills Silva - Senior Advisor monica. willssilva@bi. team Thank you www. behaviouralinsights. co. uk © Behavioural Insights ltd