世界银行-知识和审议过程对当地气候行动支出偏好的影响（英）-2025.8_28页_1mb

Summary

This paper examines how different communication strategies influence local communities' preferences for spending development funds on climate action, using a randomized controlled trial in Indonesia.

Key Findings

• Providing climate information along with deliberative processes (discussion aimed at group consensus) significantly increased participants' ranking of climate adaptation and conservation actions as high priorities for village funding (52.9% likelihood compared to control group).
• This effect was greater than educational materials alone or discussion without deliberation.
• Changes in preference priority were also higher in the deliberative group (61.1% likelihood of increasing climate action importance).
• Communication strategies had less impact on family-level spending preferences compared to village-level preferences.
• Deliberative processes themselves appear to influence stated preferences, independent of improved climate comprehension, which while enhanced by the intervention, wasn't a significant mediator.

Methodology

• Sample: 823 participants across 15 Indonesian villages.
• Interventions: Three treatment groups compared to a control group (None). Groups received either an educational video plus vulnerability profile, plus group discussion/voting, or plus deliberative consensus-building.
• Analysis: Binary and ordinal logistic regression models comparing control and treatment groups, measuring likelihood of ranking climate action as top priority or increasing its priority ranking.

Policy Relevance

The results indicate that combining locally relevant climate information with deliberative processes can effectively shift community preferences toward climate adaptation and mitigation funding in developing contexts, empowering local participation.