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- 28th Mar 2019
International development and behavioural insights
This report is a summary of international development work by the Behavioural Insights Team and its partners from 2017 to 2019.
- Blog
- 28th Mar 2019
Applying behavioural insights to international development
We’re often asked whether behavioural insights are relevant across different cultures and economies. After running projects with governments and organisations in more than 20 low and middle income countries - work summarised in our new report, out today - it’s a question we’re increasingly confident in answering: yes. Behavioural insights…
- Blog
- 19th Oct 2018
Capacity building work in Indonesia, Bangladesh and Guatemala
As a social purpose company, we want to maximise the amount of good we can do. This often means capacity building—supporting partners around the world to achieve social impact at scale. Over the past 20 months, in one of our largest capacity building programmes to date, BIT has been working…
- Blog
- 11th Sep 2018
Building Smart Peace - BIT joins conflict resolution consortium
The number of people displaced by violence and conflict reached 68.5 million by the end of 2017. BIT is already working to apply behavioural insights to challenges in refugee camps, such as promoting early childhood development and reducing corporal punishment in schools. We are excited to announce that BIT will…
- Blog
- 20th Oct 2016
Poverty and decision-making: How behavioural science can improve opportunity in the UK
A third of the UK population spent at least one year in relative income poverty between 2011 and 2014. Traditionally policymakers and anti-poverty organisations such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) have focused on boosting people’s economic capital (e.g., income) and human capital (e.g., educational attainment) to reduce poverty. While…