Inter-Party Debates: Accountability Meetings
This study seeks to evaluate the electoral effects of a recent public health intervention in Sierra Leone on 2018 election result. Given that aid serves as a windfall revenue that may make governments less accountable to their citizens, understanding how voters react to aid is especially important (Moss et al 2006). In early 2017, 300 villages in Kono Districts— Sierra Leone’s most electorally competitive district— were randomly selected to receive a One Health intervention. The project was financed by international donors, implemented by the government of Sierra Leone, and supported by local authorities. Importantly, villages were randomly chosen to receive the intervention and politicians played no role in directing which villages received the intervention. The PIs will conduct polling station level exit polls.
