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- Report
- 9th Nov 2020
Improving school management in Guatemala with ‘rules of thumb’
BIT completed a project with the Guatemalan Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) to improve school management and student attainment in high schools in Guatemala.
- Blog
- 5th Feb 2021
Can ‘rules of thumb’ training for principals improve Guatemalan schools?
In 2018, we visited high schools across Guatemala with our excellent partners in the Guatemalan Ministry of Education (MINEDUC). We were trying to understand why only 32% of high-school students pass the national standardised exam in reading comprehension and only 10% pass the exam in Maths. Here's what we found.
Also available in: Español
- Blog
- 5th Feb 2021
Can ‘rules of thumb’ training for principals improve Guatemalan schools?
En 2018, visitamos escuelas secundarias en Guatemala con nuestros excelentes socios en el Ministerio de Educación de Guatemala (MINEDUC). Tratábamos de entender por qué solamente el 32 % de los estudiantes de secundaria aprueban el examen nacional estandarizado de comprensión de lectura y solo el 10 % aprueban el examen…
Also available in: English
- Blog
- 23rd Apr 2021
Nudging bystanders to fight sexual harassment isn’t easy, but could make perpetrators think twice
Many of us would like to think we’d do something to stop sexual harassment if it happened right in front of our eyes. Indeed when we surveyed over 3,000 commuters getting off public buses in Dhaka, 9 out of 10 respondents listed at least one helpful action they would take…
- Blog
- 24th Aug 2021
Tackling Covid with videos in Bangladesh: three practical ways to apply behavioural insights to edutainment
As of late July 2021, there have likely been more than 10 million deaths from Covid globally. Part of this devastating impact reflects a lack of awareness of what actions people need to take to seek care and reduce further transmission if symptoms become apparent. Even if people know what…
- Report
- 24th Aug 2021
Using edutainment to encourage COVID helpline calls in the presence of stigma
Continuing a collaboration started in March 2017, the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) and the Access to Information (a2i) team of the Bangladeshi government came together in mid-2020 to explore how behavioural insights could be applied and tested as part of the government’s Covid-19 pandemic response. This report summarises our findings.
- Blog
- 17th Sep 2021
Applying behavioural insights and dialogue to build Smart Peace in conflict settings
For three years, The Behavioural Insights Team has been part of Smart Peace, an initiative to apply a deep understanding of human behaviour to develop new tools for peacebuilding in some of the world’s most fragile states. In collaboration with the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Conciliation Resources and ETH Zurich,…
- Academic publication
- 4th Oct 2021
The EmpaTeach intervention for reducing physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp
We tested whether the EmpaTeach intervention could reduce physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania.
- Academic publication
- 1st Nov 2021
Persisting effects of social norm feedback letters in reducing household electricity usage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
In a large-scale randomized field experiment in Chisinau, Moldova, with over 120,000 households, we tested the influence of a simple, one-time letter presenting electricity-usage social comparison feedback.
- Blog
- 25th Nov 2021
16 days of activism against gender-based violence
In 2019, one in three women reported having experienced physical or sexual abuse, the majority of which was committed by intimate partners. During the UN's upcoming 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (November 25 to December 10), we will be publishing a series of blogs outlining the projects we've been…