This paper asks whether evidence about an organization’s mission achievement motivates employees. In a randomized field experiment with the Ministry of Public Health of Guinea-Bissau, frontline health workers received credible evidence on their program’s impact on local health indicators. Six months later, treated workers provided 39% more time in direct care to recipients than the control group. Effects are largest where prior beliefs about local health status were inaccurate and over-optimistic, consistent with belief updating. The results suggest that “mission evidence” can be a low-cost lever to improve service delivery performance.

Sub-Saharan Africa faces substantial health challenges. While the use of the formal health system is limited, Traditional Health Practitioners (THPs) are central to healthcare: they are accessible, entrepreneurial, and share widespread traditional beliefs. We follow a program recruiting THPs to be trained and work as formal health agents. We randomize messages underlining either pro-social (honor) or pro-business (profit) benefits of the program. We find that THPs’ behavioral interest in the program is higher in the pro-business group. This is consistent with THPs’ perceptions about the program and driven by less religious THPs. Higher profits can motivate THPs to approach formal healthcare.

Access to timely market information can improve bargaining power in transactions. However, subscription services, requiring users to pay to access market information, reach only a small fraction of the potential market. Employing a randomized clustered control trial across 187 villages in Guinea-Bissau, we evaluate various models for disseminating market information. In about two-thirds of the villages, a focal point appointed by the village receives weekly market updates via phone calls from a team of market analysts based in the capital. These focal points are encouraged to share this information with other producers in their respective villages. Additionally, we randomly allocate half of the focal points with a list of buyers’ contacts to examine whether search barriers impede transactions in this market. In the remaining third of the villages, producers are offered direct access to weekly market updates via robocalls and an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system through a subscription service. Our study contributes to understanding the role of human intermediaries in facilitating market information access and provides insights for designing effective interventions to enhance market access for small-scale producers.