Social Impact
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PFS Adoption at 9% — Why Municipalities Cannot Embrace Pay-for-Success Despite Complete Institutional Infrastructure
Only 154 of Japan's 1,700 municipalities have implemented Pay-for-Success (PFS) contracts — a 9% adoption rate. Despite comprehensive guidelines, subsidies, and expert dispatch programs from the Cabinet Office, three structural barriers — WTP calculation, logic model design, and internal consensus building — prevent municipalities from taking the first step.
Who to Change What For — Three-Layer Target Audience Design
Defining three layers with sensory-sensitive individuals as the core, general citizens with misophonia tendencies as the broad layer, and all urban residents as potential supporters. Organizing a ripple structure where design improvements starting from the core layer leads to overall sound environment improvement.
Theory of Change — From Personal Pain to Transforming Urban Design
'I started because I wanted to reduce my own stress. Before I knew it, I was changing the city.' A design blueprint for realizing this statement. The five-layer logic model from Input to Impact, and the causal theory through which change circulates.