USAID

JSI, FHI 360

APC (Advancing Partners & Communities)

Public Health Policy

Health Policy

Under this project, MBX, JSI & FHI 360 pioneered the use of HCD to inform community health policy design. Insights from health district level eco-system immersions and workshops calibrated policies and highlighted gaps in policies being drafted to guide the Community Health Workers Program in Tanzania and the scale-up of Village Health Committees in Sierra Leone.

USAID

Chemonics

RESILIM-O

Environment: Water & Solar

Strategy

A novel application of HCD designed to save the Limpopo river basin and all those who depend on it. MBX engaged diverse NGOs, water experts, and multiple local, regional, and national government officials to inform USAID’s 5-year follow-on RFP for the environmentally critical, 4 country Limpopo River basin resilience project.

Medtronic Foundation

NCD's - The Next Decade

Health Systems Strengthening

Strategy

To inform the development of this client’s 5-year global strategic plan to address NCDs (non-communicable diseases), MBX gathered insights via 400+ in-person and virtual immersions across Brazil, India, South Africa, and the United States. These were synthesized in HCD style virtual and in-person workshops with the foundation team and informed a feature article co-authored by the foundation and MBX.

USAID, Global Fund

JSI, Palladium Group

MEASURE Evaluation

Health Systems Strengthening

Data Capture and Usage

MBX designed and facilitated a package of co-creation workshops populated with diverse clinics/district-based data capturers, data analysts, and data users. Workshop HCD exercises focused on designing localized prototypes to measurably improve behaviors, cultures, and systems to increase data demand, data quality, and data-based decision making.

Mastercard Foundation

Mastercard Foundation African Scholars Network

Purpose Led Cultures

Leadership

MCF is funding the education of over 35,000 African scholars to establish a generation of transformative leaders who will help positively change the future of their countries. MBX is helping define long term strategies and communications that build the MCF Scholars brand to African employers in order to enable this transformative leadership network to grow and flourish.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Routes2Results

Preferences: Contraceptive Injectables

Contraception & Family Planning

User Design Preferences

MBX and Routes2Results pioneered the integration of HCD exercises and analyses in a traditional focus group structure to more deeply empathize with women’s attitudes and preferences on long term injectable contraceptives in order to better share these with product designers and family planning experts.