Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW; ages 15–24) in sub-Saharan Africa face many barriers to accessing preventive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. We drew upon the strengths of two complementary approaches, human-centered design and behavioral economics, to craft a holistic, highly-tailored, and empathetic intervention to motivate AGYW to seek contraception and HIV self-test kits at community drug shops. To encourage engagement, we embedded “nudge” strategies at different opportunity points (uncovered during our design research) along the care-seeking and service delivery journey. Our Malkia Klabu intervention is a loyalty program designed to enhance drug shops’ role as SRH providers through which AGYW earned punches for shop purchases redeemable for small prizes; free SRH products could be requested at any time. From our 4-month pilot in Shinyanga, Tanzania, we assess the extent to which different behavioral nudge strategies motivated behaviors.
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- Designing for two: How enhancing human-centered design with behavioral nudges unlocked breakthroughs to promote young women’s psychological safety and access to reproductive care in Tanzania
Designing for two: How enhancing human-centered design with behavioral nudges unlocked breakthroughs to promote young women’s psychological safety and access to reproductive care in Tanzania
Publication Year: 2023
Contributing Organisation: Social Science & Medicine 320
Authors: Melanie Punton, Emma Mulhern, Gabrielle Appleford
Learning Themes: Global Health
