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What will it take to make HIV programs and health systems in Africa resilient to disruption from the Global North?

A year after the United States froze funding to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and withdrew from the World Health Organization and other UN agencies, African health…

How is it looking? Visual design and the ethics of imagery in the age of AI

As AI seeps into how we work, communicate, and make decisions, it’s quietly rewriting the terms of everyday life. Digging out patterns we’d never be able to notice—like the ones…

Tafakari Yearbook 2026. You are here: humans and stormy times

What drives consumers to adopt clean cooking products—is it all about cost?

Is palliative care only for the dying—or is there more to it?

How do Ethiopian drought-affected communities cope with the dry period, and the effect of these coping mechanisms on behavioral priorities?

Behaviorally informed political economy analyses: How behavioral science can enrich the process of thinking and working politically in development

Development efforts travel a complex terrain: where local needs and resources, political interests, power dynamics, and cultural history cross paths in exciting, but often confusing ways. Many vital services may…

Applying HCD to improve the uptake of routine immunization: a case of South Sudan

Harnessing Behavioral Science to Revolutionize Food Choices in the Pacific Islands

Mercy Kiptai

The work is not done: creating new paths to an equitable world in uncertain times

There are many valid perspectives from which to criticise the development sector. A lot of the work in the space, for example, fails to achieve the intended expectations. One could…

Lessons from the field: what have we learnt from six years of doing qualitative research?

Tafakari Yearbook 2025

Can mass media videos encourage reading in children?

From linear insights to systemic solutions: the future of behavioral science

Ruth Wambua

Lynette Gow

Jaspreet Singh

Arize Okafor

Anthony Mogaka

Making policy work for the people: how the new Indian government can use behavioral science for inclusive development in India

Over the past month, the focus in India has been on one particular kind of human behavior: voting. What would India decide? Now that the votes are counted and a…

What is rigorous qualitative research in behavioral science?

The Busara toolkit: leveraging behavioral science for development

Fiona Mahiaini

Robert Nyaga

Tafakari Yearbook 2024

&nbsp Yearbook You are not alone: human behavior under pressure Download PDF Busara SECTORBehavioral sciencePROJECT TYPEYearbookBEHAVIORAL THEMECollaboration| Community| Engagement OVERVIEW As an organization dedicated to behavioral science in pursuit of…

Enhancing SRH Delivery through Human Centered Design: A Behavioral audit of e-Pharmacy services in Nigeria

&nbsp Case study Enhancing SRH Delivery through Human Centered Design Download poster Jaspreet Singh, Robert Nyaga, and Mohammed M. Alhaji SECTORDigital healthPROJECT TYPEPoster presentationBEHAVIORAL THEMEReproductive health| family planning| technology OVERVIEW…

The Little Book for Parenting Programmes

&nbsp Playbook The Little Book for Parenting Programmes Download PDF Mark Millrine & Allison Zelkowitz PARTNERBernard van Leer FoundationPARTNERSave the ChildrenSECTORBehavioral sciencePROJECT TYPEGuideBEHAVIORAL THEMEECD| parenting| education OVERVIEW Applying Behavioural Science…