Designing Development Interventions

This research paper describes the application of service design (SD) and discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to develop a Weather Index Insurance (WII) product for smallholder farmers in Uganda.

• The authors utilized service design (SD) as a tool to address complex development challenges in the Global South, specifically by involving citizens in the development and improvement of systems and services.
• To design a Weather Index Insurance (WII) product for smallholder farmers in Uganda, the researchers combined service design—using archetypes to articulate farmer vulnerabilities and test prototype insurance packages—with discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to test and triangulate design features.
• The combined approach of SD and DCEs resulted in a WII product adopted by major insurance providers in Uganda and improved upon traditional qualitative work by allowing participants to challenge core assumptions and engage directly in the design process.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2022). Designing Development Interventions. https://www.sei.org/publications/designing-development-interventions/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Designing Development Interventions. 2022. https://www.sei.org/publications/designing-development-interventions/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2022designing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Designing Development Interventions}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = jul, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/designing-development-interventions/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }