Behavioural Science

This joint report from the World Bank and the World Health Organization examines the complex ways in which behaviour shapes health outcomes, the historical antecedents to the current focus on behavioural science in public health and the models adopted by over 40 behavioural insights units operating in the health sector in 26 countries around the world.

This session provides a platform for Member States to delve into how stronger capabilities in data, digital, innovation, foresight and behavioural science can accelerate national priorities and progress.

Learn how experts are advancing these and other enablers to sustainably embed new skills and approaches in organisations.

This session highlighted initiatives from UNDP, UNEP and the World Bank that are leveraging data, digital technologies and behavioural science to forge a path to a sustainable future.

Hear from UN Secretary-General António Guterres and senior UN leaders as they lay out the vision for a modernized UN.

This session shed light on global work in evidence generation using randomised evaluations and how the UN can leverage and build upon it in its increasing application of behavioural science.

Explore how 40 Entities are leveraging new approaches and cutting-edge technologies in their work.

This toolkit aims to help WB task team leads and other practitioners apply behavioral science principles to identify factors influencing clean energy technology adoption and design effective solutions to overcome individual, social, and environmental barriers to adopting and sustaining clean energy solutions among low-income households and communities in developing countries

The UN is applying behavioural science to support its transformation into a streamlined, agile, and high-impact organisation. Behavioural science refers to an evidence-based understanding of how people behave, make decisions and respond to policies.

This report discusses the differences and similarities between two approaches to health equity and inequalities: individually oriented behaviour change, and the social or wider determinants of health.

The UN Innovation Update highlight how 40 UN Entities from across the system are leveraging innovative approaches in their work.

This compendium is designed to help decision-makers investigate, understand, and respond to waste management challenges through interventions considering a behavioral science lens.

The Brief outlines the SG's vision for a modernised UN system with cutting-edge skills and forward-thinking culture.

This survey tool was designed to support organizations that wish to assess barriers and drivers for a systematic use of behavioural science in their public health workforce, policies and programmes.

In this session, UN Entities explored how behavioural science can be applied to improve the lives of people on the move.

This session reviews and discusses prominent critiques of the discipline raised by activists and academics, and how these manifest and are addressed within the UN.