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We work with clients and global projects to change behaviours and systems
Matchboxology’s unique recipe of evidence-based decision-making, lean start-up principles, habit theory and human centered design thinking offers a powerful accelerator for positive change.
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Entrepreneurship /Small Enterprise Development
HIV Prevention & Treatment
COVID-19
Public Health Policy
Contraception & Family Planning
Maternal & 
Child Care
TB Prevention & Treatment
Health Systems Strengthening
Shared Value Marketing
Environment: Water & Solar
Purpose Led Cultures
Challenges we’ve worked on
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Zimbabwe
Client
USAID
Collaborators
PATH
Project Name
Engage HCD
Sector
HIV Prevention & Treatment
Challenge
Demand Creation
Description
MBX is partnered with PATH to provide technical expertise and support as USAID missions learn and explore how to apply HCD to improve the designs and performance of their key global health programs. Our first assignment is amplifying the rollout of PrEP in Zimbabwe by localizing the “V” campaign we co-created in Project EMOTION.
Senegal
Client
Open Society Foundation
Project Name
Legal Empowerment
Sector
Purpose Led Cultures
Challenge
Strategy, Capacity Building
Description
MBX used HCD to improve the capacity of staff and partners to implement legal empowerment network strategies and explore the role of technology and innovative financing in legal empowerment.
Viet Nam
Client
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Collaborators
Routes2Results
Project Name
MAPS Potential User Design Insights
Sector
Contraception & Family Planning
Challenge
User Design Preferences
Description
MBX is trailblazing the integration of HCD with traditional quant and qual research to calibrate product design and predict demand for long-term contraceptives delivered by innovative microarray patches.
Zimbabwe
Client
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Collaborators
Routes2Results
Project Name
Lyndra Pill; User Design Insights
Sector
Contraception & Family Planning
Challenge
User Design Preferences
Description
Lyndra is the Boston based start-up that has ingeniously re-designed a single pill to deliver long term dosages. MBX is facilitating highly interactive HCD workshops to explore low and middle-income women's attitudes and design insights as they plan for the launch of a once-a-month contraceptive pill.

South Africa
Client
Levi's®
Project Name
Pioneer Nation
Sector
Entrepreneurship /Small Enterprise Development
Challenge
Capacity Building
Description
Levi’s® wanted a purpose-led opportunity to engage millennials and Gen Z’s. MBX’s HCD approach uncovered an unmet need that perfectly aligned young South Africans’ entrepreneurship passion with this iconic brand’s expertise and heritage. We co-designed Pioneer Nation with them as an annual festival and learning community that celebrates young entrepreneurs and empowers them to learn how to start up and stay up from one another.
Ethiopia
Client
USAID
Collaborators
Abt Associates
Project Name
SHOPS
Sector
Entrepreneurship /Small Enterprise Development
Challenge
Capacity Building
Description
MBX enhanced SHOPS grantees’ capacity to develop 360 degree market empathy and achieve better market impact through more sophisticated and tailored marketing plans.