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- 21st Dec 2017
BIT Partners Win $100 Million Grant from MacArthur Foundation
We are delighted to announce that our partners at the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Sesame Workshop have been selected as the winners of the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change Challenge, a groundbreaking award providing $100 million to fund a critical problem facing the world today. IRC and Sesame Workshop have teamed…
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- 10th Apr 2018
Supporting innovation in public services: Empathy Training in Bangladesh
In partnership with the Access to Information programme (a2i) from the Prime Minister’s Office of Bangladesh, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) have been working to develop behavioural insights capacity within the Government of Bangladesh. In the first of several posts about our work together, we highlight one of the ways…
- Blog
- 13th Apr 2018
Encouraging teachers and principals to turn up to school in Peru
Teacher absenteeism can be fun for students. If we ask you to remember a day at school when a teacher didn’t show up, it probably brings back memories of happy faces, a movie, or a game outside. Unfortunately, research shows that even a few days of teacher absenteeism can negatively…
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- Blog
- 22nd Jun 2018
BX2018: Scaling effective health interventions across the globe
This blog post is the last in a series that we are writing in the lead up to the 2018 Behavioural Exchange. It outlines our recent work in health, which is the focus of one of the breakout sessions. As health has been an area that we’ve worked in for…
- 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…
- Report
- 19th Oct 2018
Reducing Tax Return Errors in Form 1770 in Indonesia
The aim of this project was to reduce common errors that Indonesian taxpayers make when completing certain sections of their tax return form. In an online experiment using BIT’s Predictiv platform, we tested the impact of a two-page FAQ flyer on accuracy when completing the form. Compared to participants who…
- Report
- 19th Oct 2018
Encouraging Earlier Tax Returns in Indonesia
In Indonesia, as in other countries around the world, a large proportion of taxpayers file their taxes at the last minute. This leads to long queues in front of tax offices and crashes of the online system around the deadline, which erodes tax morale and puts pressure on the system.…
- Report
- 19th Oct 2018
Reducing Social Security Contribution Arrears in Indonesia
A large proportion of companies registered with BPJSTK have contribution arrears at some point during the year. This puts employees at risk because they would not be covered by BPJSTK’s insurance in the event of an accident. It also lowers the contributions made towards their pensions. We tested the effectiveness…
- 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…
- Report
- 24th Jan 2019
The Behavioural Insights Team Annual Update Report 2017-18
Latest results from the team, covering issues from healthcare to humanitarian aid.