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Behavioural Science
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April 26, 2024
UN 2.0 Week - What Next? What Member States Expect From a UN 2.0
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.
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April 25, 2024
UN 2.0 Week - Enabling the Transformation: Taking the UN 2.0 Vision Forward
Learn how experts are advancing these and other enablers to sustainably embed new skills and approaches in organisations.
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April 24, 2024
UN 2.0 Week - Green Horizons: Scaling Climate Solutions for a Sustainable Planet
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.
SDG 13: Climate Action
April 22, 2024
[UN 2.0 Week] How the UN 2.0 Vision Will Help Us Get to the SDGs
Hear from UN Secretary-General António Guterres and senior UN leaders as they lay out the vision for a modernized UN.
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April 19, 2024
Using Behavioural and Experimental Evidence to Inform Global Development
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.
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April 18, 2024
UN Innovation Update 2024
Explore how 40 Entities are leveraging new approaches and cutting-edge technologies in their work.
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January 1, 2024
Behavioural Science - Sludge Reduction
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.
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November 9, 2023
The Contribution of Behavioral Science to Addressing the Social and Wider Determinants of Health
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.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
October 24, 2023
UN Innovation Update 2023
The UN Innovation Update highlight how 40 UN Entities from across the system are leveraging innovative approaches in their work.
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September 15, 2023
Behavior Change in Solid Waste Management: A Compendium of Cases
This compendium is designed to help decision-makers investigate, understand, and respond to waste management challenges through interventions considering a behavioral science lens.
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 12: Responsible Consumption & Production
SDG 13: Climate Action
September 6, 2023
UN 2.0 Policy Brief
The Brief outlines the SG's vision for a modernised UN system with cutting-edge skills and forward-thinking culture.
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June 26, 2023
Use of Behavioural Science in Organizations: A Workforce Survey
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.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
June 16, 2023
Behavioural Science and Migration: People on the Move
In this session, UN Entities explored how behavioural science can be applied to improve the lives of people on the move.
Humanitarian Action
SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities
June 16, 2023
How Does BeSci Fit into the Work of the UN? - Value Add and Criticisms
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.
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June 16, 2023
BeSci to Improve Knowledge and Information Sharing
In this session, entities shared how behavioural science can be applied to improve the way that UN colleagues share knowledge and information.
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June 15, 2023
The Role of BeSci in Tackling Non-Communicable Diseases
The session presented a framework on the relationships between non-communicable disease prevention, detection, and management and behavioural determinants at the individual, community, and health systems levels.
SDG 03: Good Health & Well-Being
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