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Our Work
Our e5 HCD
Our Story
5 steps to better programs, services and products
Listening and doing
evidence
Find new insights in existing data. Align to motivating definitions of success.
empathy
Field In country Immersions Insights Synthesis & Sharing
eureka
Customize Eureka
Workshop exercises Co-Creation facilitation Insights/Prototype synthesis
execution
World-Class Prototype design Rapid field feedback & iteration Pilot planning / training / implementation
evolution
Capacitate systems to Monitor, Evaluate, Calibrate Design learning principles & knowledge sharing systems
Our Process
(Framework + thinking)
At Matchboxology we start by walking in the shoes of those you are trying to engage. We drill down across their ecosystem with humility and objectivity and share this experience. This converts to cognitive empathy for you and your teams; inspiring better decisions based on a deeper empathy for diverse points of view and life's realities.

Cognitive empathy more accurately defines a project’s true challenges.

Then we bring those closest to the problems or opportunities into the heart of the problem solving process to co-create solutions as equals with technical experts and project teams.

Matchboxology’s 5e process consistently uncovers innovative new solutions to problems you’ve looked at a hundred times before.

The MBX process is focused at every stage on identifying, designing and calibrating solutions that bring together what's needed with what's desired.

Our process delivers solutions that reduce the risk of implementation failure caused by blind spots and/or mis-aligned priorities.
Process at work
(Framework + thinking)
USAID Integrated Health Program Democratic Republic of Congo
DEEPER DIVE OVERVIEW
Matchboxology is the Human Centered Design partner of Abt Associates in the USAID funded Integrated Health Programme (IHP) project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. We are using HCD to co-create a social behaviour change activities in support of IHP objectives in promoting good health and hygiene practices in remote communities across nine provinces.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Test & Treat: Men
DEEPER DIVE OVERVIEW
Matchboxology is the lead Human Centered Design partner on an innovative three year Gates Foundation Men's project to better understand, serve and motivate South African men who haven't actively engaged with current and previous HIV prevention and treatment initiatives. Matchboxology and the Team are developing and testing initiatives for anti-retroviral (ARV) drug uptake and adherence.
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