What is a Global South organization? Exploring the meaning of terminology and identity for Busara’s knowledge production
Exploring the meaning of terminology and identity for Busara’s knowledge production.
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…
Participant voice first: The Busara research agenda on ethical research in the Global South
Groundwork Participant voice first: The Busara research agenda on ethical research in the Global South Download PDF SECTOR Ethical research PROJECT TYPE Field and Lab Experiments BEHAVIORAL THEME Integrity…
Unlikely tools for unlikely times: 9 things to consider before using IVR as a research tool
In 2016, INC ran an interview titled “This CEO runs a billion-dollar company with no offices or email.” The interview profiled Matt Mullenweg, the CEO of Automattic, which runs WordPress. WordPress…
Remotely different: a tale of research during COVID
When you hear the word remote, it probably signals an access challenge. It creates the visual image of a rural or distant area, far off from the general population, possibly…
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…
Driving behavior change in the face of COVID: is increasing access to reliable information effective?
A decision alone is not enough, it must be an informed one. To achieve highly impactful decisions, one must have access to quality information, shared through the right reliable channels,…
A Partnership to teach: training the next generation of behavioral scientists with the MIT Governance Lab
In recent years, behavioral sciences, or ways to better understand determinants of human behavior, have emerged as a leading innovation across disciplines and sectors. These novel methods and data allow…
The Process is the Outcome: testing whether gendered processes create cultural distance for women in the workplace.
Women’s day often brings with it a resurgence of disheartening statistics such as only 1% of venture capital in Africa has gone to female founders, women fill less than 20% of US…
Can TV teach children comprehension?
The things we believe about something, whether true or untrue, define our approach towards it. In Europe, for example, the tomato was considered poisonous in the 1700s as it was…