Understanding the impact of school milk feeding programs in Kenya
  Case study Understanding the impact of school milk feeding programs in Kenya Download PDF Wairimu Muthike PARTNER Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) SECTOR Food system…
Embracing dignity in aid and development: Lessons from five inspiring organizations
  Case study Embracing Dignity in Aid and Development: Lessons from Five Inspiring Organizations Download PDF Tom Wein, Joel Wambua PARTNER IDinsight SECTOR Philanthropy PROJECT TYPE Case Study BEHAVIORAL THEME…
EatSafe: Evidence and action towards safe and nutritious food
  Case study EatSafe: Food safety intervention in traditional Nigerian markets Download PDF PARTNER GAIN SECTOR Food system resilience PROJECT TYPE Field and Lab Experiments BEHAVIORAL THEME Socio-cultural norms |…
The Little Jab Book: 18 behavioral science strategies for increasing vaccination uptake
Case study The Little Jab Book:18 behavioral science strategies for increasing vaccination uptake Download PDF PARTNER Save The Children | Common Thread SECTOR Health PROJECT TYPE Field Experiments BEHAVIORAL THEME…
Speaking Truth: how focus group discussions enrich communication campaigns
Conversations have an interesting effect on your mood, your thought process, and even your behavior. If the discussions are engaging enough, you might offer your own words of wisdom and…
Preventing food waste in traditional Nigerian and Kenyan markets
  Case study Preventing food waste in traditional Kenyan and Nigerian markets Download PDF PARTNER Posner Foundation SECTOR Financial Inclusion PROJECT TYPE Field and Lab Experiments SAMPLE SIZE 1,834 Participants…
Driving financial inclusion through digital learning
  Case study Driving financial inclusion through digital learning Download PDF Author text goes here PARTNERCGAPSECTOR Financial InclusionPROJECT TYPEField ExperimentsSAMPLE SIZE1,320 ParticipantsBEHAVIORAL THEMEUrgency |Loss frame, |Disfluency |Herding OVERVIEW Inorder to…
Busara case study exhibition, SBCC Summit 2022
  Case study Busara case study exhibition: Social behavior change communication summit Morocco, Dec. 5-9, 2022 Download PDF SECTORBehavioral sciencePROJECT TYPE Field and Lab ExperimentsBEHAVIORAL THEMEUrgency OVERVIEW This document breaks…
Barriers to Effective Family Planning: Evidence from research literature
  Case study Barriers to effective family planning: Evidence from research literature Download PDF PARTNERPath Finder InternationalSECTORHealthPROJECT TYPE Field and Lab ExperimentsBEHAVIORAL THEMEPlanning | urgency OVERVIEW The YUVAA program implemented…
Improving teacher involvement and cook performance for a national school feeding programme
  Case study Improving teacher involvement and cook performance for a national school feeding programme Download PDF PARTNERThe Nigerian Economic summit Group |NHGSFP |AccentureSECTORSocial aid |InvestmentPROJECT TYPEField ExperimentsSAMPLE SIZE210 SchoolsBEHAVIORAL…
Promoting healthy eating through a return to traditional foods
  Case study Promoting healthy eating through a return to traditional foods Download PDF PARTNERUSP |New Zealand Foreign Affairs and Trade |Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade…
Improving the efficacy and delivery of social protection programs
As a part of the first Policy Innovation Unit in Nigeria - a consortium of organizations established to improve the efficacy and delivery of social protection programs - We designed…
Prioritizing dignity in practice: understanding research dignity from the participant perspective
“It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects…
Value and validation: how feedback enhances the quality of research outputs
If there’s one thing participants could change about research, it would be feedback. In a recent qualitative study, Busara’s research participants told us that they would want to learn the…
Seen but not heard: ethical considerations for inclusive research in the global south
“They (open-ended questions) are the best types of questions to use in research because they do not confine someone to a certain point, but instead, the person will have the…
The Little Jab Book: 18 behavioral science strategies for increasing vaccination uptake
  Guide The Little Jab Book: 18 behavioral science strategies for increasing vaccination uptake Download PDF Anamika Suresh & Dhwani Yagnaraman PARTNERCommon ThreadSave The Children InternationalSECTORHealth OVERVIEW The Little Jab…
Self-efficacy as a driver of civic engagement
What psychological factors motivate an individual to engage with issues affecting their communities? Active engagement in community issues is a critical driver of accountable political systems. Civic engagement can be…
Improving uptake while countering adverse selection in digital credit
How can behaviorally informed messaging improve productive uptake of digital credit? The Nigerian Government Enterprise and Empowerment Program (GEEP) is amongst the handful of government-led low-cost microloan programs that are…
Increasing smallholder uptake of seed insurance
How do we make adoption of insurance easier for farmers using behavioral science? ACRE Africa, the brand name of Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise Ltd. (ACRE), links farmers to insurance…
Nudges to improve digital fundraising activity
How can behavioral science improve digital fundraising momentum? M-Changa, founded in 2011, is a digital platform which enables users to conduct “Harambee” fundraising online. M-Changa aims to simplify the fundraising…
Increasing the uptake and usage of mobile money as a savings device
Can simple messaging induce saving habits? The mobile money landscape in Tanzania has been rapidly evolving, closely following Kenya in terms of total penetration. In 2017 more than 50% of…
Improving savings rates among cash transfer recipients
How can we help cash transfer programs better target long-term goals? The Household Uplifting Programme (HUP), otherwise known as the Conditional Cash Transfer, aims at responding to deficiencies in capacity…
Improving retirement savings among informal sector workers
How can behavioral science help informal sector workers meet their savings goals? How do people decide how much to consume today versus how much to save for the future? The…
Nudges to improve digital fundraising activities
How can social obligations be induced on a digital platform? Digital credit offers a compelling opportunity to lower the costs and barriers to accessing Credit. Recent research has suggested that…
Behaviorally informed communication to drive civic engagement
How can communication drive individuals to engage with issues affecting their communities? Active engagement in community issues is a critical driver of accountable political systems. Civic engagement can be measured…
Using behavioral science to convert traditional bank customers to digital accounts
How can we encourage usage of a new, digital account among bank users? Low product uptake and usage are common barriers faced by digital financial services. Busara worked with a…
Promoting adoption of new mobile payment services
Can targeted messaging encourage switching of digital financial services? The growth of retail banking in Kenya has rapidly generated numerous channels to provide services. However, the competitive pressures generate gaps…
