Use non-financial incentives to encourage immunization

Use non-financial incentives to reward parents every time they attend a scheduled appointment. This can be useful for getting them to complete an immunization program, especially if it spans over several weeks or months.

Behavioral Tools: Incentive

Benchmarked Intervention

Experiment Overview

To assess the effect of non-financial incentives on immunization rates, an RCT in India randomly allocated households in villages to either one of three groups: a control, a monthly immunization camp, and a monthly immunizations camp with non-financial incentives. The latter received incentives in the form of a 1 Kg bag of lentils every time they took their 1-3 year old children to their scheduled vaccination appointments.

Impact

Source: Banerjee, A. V., Duflo, E., Glennerster, R., & Kothari, D. (2010). Improving immunisation coverage in rural India: clustered randomised controlled evaluation of immunisation campaigns with and without incentives. Bmj, 340, c2220. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871989/