B4Development

We had the pleasure to host @roozenbot at our fifth #LegacyMajlis in which we discussed along with the community-of-practice the applications of the #InoculationTheory in the context of prevention of violent extremism, among other policy challenges

@alkhori opening the @GA4good youth festival 2021 … using sports for development

Thank you all for making BX Arabia a success!

Nasser Alkhori (@alkhori) shares one outstanding success story of Generation Amazing (@GA4good) in Pakistan around participation of women in football. Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

Dr. Al Zahrani stresses on the timing of implementation of an experiment being one of the most important factors of success- targeting people at 'moments of change' in their lives. Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

Dr. Al Zahrani talks about the evolving role of behavioral insights in the labor market in Saudi, especially in targeting young job applicants with capacity building, life coaching, etc. Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

We want to address social inclusion through our football for development program and we stress on having a proper needs assessment to understand the root causes of issues facing the youth and community. Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

We constantly have to be thinking, questioning, and trying to understand whether what we are doing is working, what is the importance of it, and keep on evaluating to try and make sure we get the outcomes we want. Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

The behavioral insights unit inside the department of finance is there to implement nudges to have a scalable impact. Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

I would like to see more capacity building being done in the next five years, keeping in mind the real challenges people in the global south face- not everyone can afford to have a master's degree @JagatiAditya Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

There often needs to be a large amount of expectation setting towards each behavioral intervention as people would approach it similarly to how they were introduced to behavioral science. Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

Sharing of stories and lessons learned of failures is equally as important as sharing those of successes! Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

we need to see behavioral insights imbedded in our normal routine of doing things: thinking and doing behavioral insights! @makkifadi @nabilsaleh42 Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde…

For the future, I see we will have less specialized behavioral science units for every country and we will have more teams and capacity embedded within governments and organizations- @makkifadi Live: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde… Q&A: Slido (#BXArabia2021)

Now: Round table on key trends in behavioral insights in the global south. Live: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde… Q&A: Slido (#BXArabia2021)

Prof. Vlaev discusses the three-stage behavioral change pathway to dealing with obesity: 1. prevention 2. early detection 3. coming out this year in a systematic review of meta analysis of the effectiveness of weight mngt programs. Stay tuned! Live: @roadto2022news

Fun lesson learned shared by @nabilsaleh42 from our behavioral intervention to prompt drivers to stop at the red traffic light. Hint: 3D metal structures tend to be heavy! Tune in to learn more. Live: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde… Q&A: Slido (#BXArabia2021)

You can play back and watch all insightful panels as they will remain available on Twitter and YouTube live streaming on the following links: Twitter: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde… Q&A: Slido (#BXArabia2021)

There is a positive correlation between frequent social media use and vaccine hesitancy- some of those users who don't want to get their jab are amongst the hard core hesitant. Live: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde… Q&A: Slido (#BXArabia2021)

The power of telling compelling individual stories is higher than presenting facts and statistics as these don't motivate people to take action. Live: @roadto2022news YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=o8X5kZde… Q&A: Slido (#BXArabia2021)