AYNI Social Lab is the social innovation laboratory of the
Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru. It was created in October 2016 to promote the generation of cost-effective
innovations for
social policy
Social policy is a plan or action of government or institutional agencies which aim to improve or reform society.
Some professionals and universities consider social policy a subset of public policy, while other practitioners characterize soci ...
, through the identification and implementation of innovative solutions aimed at improving the quality of life of the population in conditions of
poverty
Poverty is the state of having few material possessions or little income. Poverty can have diverse social, economic, and political causes and effects. When evaluating poverty in ...
or
vulnerability. It is the first laboratory of cost-effective innovation officially created—by Ministerial Resolution—in Peru.
President of Peru,
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, mentioned the creation of the AYNI Lab Social in his conference on the advances and achievements of the government within the 100 days of his management.
In addition to the specialists and the technical team of the AYNI Lab Social, the "Working Group" is the one which has the responsibility of guiding all its activities. This group is made up of: the Deputy Minister of Social Policy and Evaluation (President of the team), the Deputy Minister of Social Benefits, the Director General of Quality Management of Social Programs, the Director General of Articulation or Coordination of Social Benefits, the Director General of Monitoring and Evaluation, the Director of Evaluation, and the Head of the Planning and Investment Office.
The AYNI Lab Social seeks to facilitate the development of social innovations that are original, transferable and reproducible, capable of being transformed into policies, cost-effective, and scalable. In this context, the development of both institutional and technological innovations are being addressed. A good deal of institutional innovations make use of insights from
behavioral economics
Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory. ...
and
psychology
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...
to achieve cost-effective mechanisms and solutions; moreover, all these seek to be evaluated using experimental methodologies and
impact evaluation. As for the technological innovations, these have been addressed on the basis of the open calls "Competitions of Social Innovations", promoted jointly with the
Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru, the
Ministry of Production of Peru and
Innóvate Perú.
See also
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Think tank
A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmenta ...
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Social innovation
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Behavioral economics
Behavioral economics studies the effects of psychological, cognitive, emotional, cultural and social factors on the decisions of individuals or institutions, such as how those decisions vary from those implied by classical economic theory. ...
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Impact evaluation
References
External links
Official website of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru (in Spanish)
Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru: What is the AYNI Lab Social?(in Spanish)
Ministerial Resolution N° 248-2016-MIDIS about the creation of the AYNI Lab Social(in Spanish)
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Organisations based in Peru
Economic research institutes