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SUMMARY:BRU-Iscte Research Seminar: Frederica Mendonça
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Frederica Mendonça (Research Affiliate at Nova SBE NOVAFRICA Knowledge Centre) \nDate: 2 December 2025 (online) \nTime: 1 p.m. \nDuration: 1 hour \nTitle: Road to somewhere: Introducing ReCycling in a Mozambican city \nBrief description of the seminar: Urban recycling in Sub-Saharan Africa remains below five percent due to coordination failures: households lack incentives to separate waste when collection is unreliable\, while collectors avoid markets with scarce supply. In this project\, I implement a randomised field experiment to test whether low-cost interventions can overcome this barrier in Quelimane\, Mozambique. The intervention combined household information on recycling with the creation of a buyback centre that engaged bicycle taxi drivers as waste collectors. A second treatment arm adds a conspicuous signalling device to reinforce pro-social motives from households. Within eighteen weeks\, cyclists delivered 3\,109 kilograms of recyclables\, exclusively from treated households\, while earning substantially more than on passenger trips. This translates into a significant increase in cyclists’ self-reported weekly earnings. Households report less burning and a 30% increase in separated waste. I also observe an increase in satisfaction with the city’s waste management. These preliminary findings suggest that mobilising informal transport networks\, supported by light-touch interventions with households\, can enhance recycling outcomes\, raise earnings\, and provide a scalable model for service delivery under weak state capacity. \nSession chair: Professor Catarina Roseta Palma
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