Behavioural science interventions within the development and environmental fields in developing countries: An evidence gap map

Booth, Samantha, Cavatassi, Romina, Curtis, Benjamin, Sun Kim, Deborah, Langer, Laurenz, Blaser Mapitsa, Caitlin, Nduku, Promise, Prowse, Martin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1271-468X, Puri, Jyotsna and Robertsen, Jamie (2022) Behavioural science interventions within the development and environmental fields in developing countries: An evidence gap map. Green Climate Fund Independent Evaluation Unit.

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Abstract

This evidence gap map (EGM) presents a landscape of studies on the effectiveness of behavioural science interventions in non-Annex I settings, a group of mainly developing countries within the context of the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The EGM summarizes causal evidence from development and environmental interventions. Understanding what is effective in changing behaviour in these countries is important for both adaptation and mitigation purposes. Although the evidence base is thin, the EGM reveals that the most commonly evaluated interventions are reminders, feedback, micro-incentives, salience of communication, commitment devices, salience of experience design (how individuals interact with their physical or digital environment), goal setting, rules of thumb, social norms and social benchmarking. The impact evaluations are relatively skewed towards sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia and the Pacific. A limited number of impact evaluations have been conducted in Europe and Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. A majority of the studies included in the EGM emanate from the water, sanitation and hygiene sector, the financial sector, the energy and extractives sector and the agricultural sector

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 13 - climate action ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2023 16:31
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2023 01:09
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/91067
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