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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
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Contraception & Family Planning
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TB Prevention & Treatment
Health Systems Strengthening
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Environment: Water & Solar
Purpose Led Cultures
Challenges we’ve worked on
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South Africa
Client
USAID
Collaborators
Chemonics
Project Name
RESILIM-O
Sector
Environment: Water & Solar
Challenge
Strategy
Description
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.

India
Client
Medtronic Foundation
Project Name
NCD's - The Next Decade
Sector
Health Systems Strengthening
Challenge
Strategy
Description
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.
Tanzania
Client
USAID, Global Fund
Collaborators
JSI, Palladium Group
Project Name
MEASURE Evaluation
Sector
Health Systems Strengthening
Challenge
Data Capture and Usage
Description
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.
Uganda
Client
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Collaborators
Catapult Design, PSI
Project Name
Project ACTION
Sector
Contraception & Family Planning
Challenge
User Design Preferences
Description
Project ACTION is applying HCD to explore the desirability of specific contraceptive product attributes amongst low and middle-income women across their different family planning life stages. Outputs will inform business cases being developed for pipeline products and will guide investors, product designers, and governments as they look to better serve the FP needs of women in the coming decades.
Kenya
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.
South Africa
Client
USAID, Global Fund
Collaborators
JSI, Palladium Group
Project Name
MEASURE Evaluation
Sector
Health Systems Strengthening
Challenge
Data Capture and Usage
Description
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.