DRG Impact Evaluation of USAID/Mali Justice Program: Memorandum on Initial Results from Endline Survey


In both the household and elite endline surveys, we asked a set of questions about respondents’ awareness of public information meetings. In the overall household data, we find no difference between treatment and control areas in terms of awareness of meetings held in the villages in the last six weeks. While elites in treatment villages were significantly more likely to report that there had been public information meetings, the difference was not as great as we would have anticipated ex ante. In towns with populations of 1,000 residents or less, we would have expected nearly all of the village heads to be aware of the MJP information campaign sessions, which was not the case. For one of the four CSOs, there is a statistically significant difference in the wrong direction (i.e., respondents in control villages are more likely to report the presence of public information meetings). Most respondents who said they were aware of the meetings did not think that they concerned the judicial sector, although respondents in treatment areas are somewhat more likely to say that they were.