Not something that local governments should be doing instead
A broad class of interventions that fit this bill are entrepreneurial interventions. The goal would be to build local capacity temporarily in order to prove out the intervention in the eyes of the government (who will want to see local demand and effectiveness), and then hand it over to them. These can be locally informed or have local adaptations (satisfying (1) and (2)), but wouldn’t necessarily be currently done because they’re new ideas.
it seems that would imply that locals would do it or ask their governments to do it
I think this isn’t true for these kinds of interventions. It’s easy to imagine large gaps between ‘I think this would be a good idea’ and ‘I have the resources, funding, and willingness to do this myself’ or ‘My government will do this’. Governments in particular move slowly and often want proof that an intervention works locally before implementing it themselves.
So for your criteria:
Locals agree that it would be a good idea
Can be done using local resources and expertise
Not currently being done locally
Not something that local governments should be doing instead
A broad class of interventions that fit this bill are entrepreneurial interventions. The goal would be to build local capacity temporarily in order to prove out the intervention in the eyes of the government (who will want to see local demand and effectiveness), and then hand it over to them. These can be locally informed or have local adaptations (satisfying (1) and (2)), but wouldn’t necessarily be currently done because they’re new ideas.
I think this isn’t true for these kinds of interventions. It’s easy to imagine large gaps between ‘I think this would be a good idea’ and ‘I have the resources, funding, and willingness to do this myself’ or ‘My government will do this’. Governments in particular move slowly and often want proof that an intervention works locally before implementing it themselves.
Do you have an example success story of the kind of intervention that you have in mind?