Projects & Impact

Transforming evidence into practical public policy solutions through behavioral science, human-centered design, and gender inclusion.

Our Portfolio

Explore some of our projects that address public policy challenges through evidence based research, community engagement, and practical solutions.

2026

Structural Field Research on Social Norms and Health Dynamics

The Context

Investigating how social norms influence healthcare access, economic participation, and adolescent wellbeing.

Behavioral Diagnostics

Examined household decision-making, cultural expectations, and behavioral patterns affecting health outcomes.

Gender Inclusion Lens

Conducted community-level assessments across Women's Economic Empowerment, reproductive health, child marriage, gender-based violence, and immunization.

Impact: Developed actionable policy recommendations to improve healthcare, economic security, and gender equity for women and girls.
2025

Diagnosing Informal Market Health Insurance Uptake

The Context

PPL looked into why market traders were consistently avoiding the government's introduced health policy and insurance plan.

Behavioral Diagnostics

We spent time observing real-time user struggles inside busy trading zones, specifically Oshodi Open Market (Lagos State) and Ota Market (Ogun State). Through this fieldwork, we found that the main barrier was not a simple awareness gap, but rather the financial mismatch of an annual premium for traders with irregular incomes who need to reinvest their daily earnings into restocking their businesses.

Human-Centered Design

Our design process focused on developing a prototype layout that maps how an alternative daily payment plan could take small insurance deductions directly from the market tickets traders already buy every morning. This proposed blueprint gives implementing health authorities an alternative pathway, demonstrating how putting health contributions into existing daily market routines makes it simpler for informal traders to get coverage.

Impact: Identified the financial barriers limiting health insurance uptake and proposed a daily payment model integrated into existing market ticket purchases, making insurance more accessible to informal traders.
2024–2025

Operational Fidelity Assessment for Regional Education Initiatives

The Context

Evaluated implementation quality and delivery systems supporting large-scale education development programmes.

Behavioral Diagnostics

Identified execution bottlenecks and administrative behaviors reducing programme effectiveness.

Human-Centered Design

Worked alongside more than 120 community stakeholders, school leaders, traditional rulers, and mentors to improve monitoring systems.

Impact: Produced evidence-based monitoring frameworks adopted to strengthen education programme accountability.
2024

Technical Skills Equity Pipeline for Women

The Context

Addressing gender inequality within the technology repair and hardware maintenance sector.

Gender Inclusion Lens

Conducted gender-disaggregated analysis to understand economic, financial, and cultural barriers affecting women.

Human-Centered Design

Created safe and accessible technical training environments aligned with women's mobility and household responsibilities.

Impact: Established a pathway enabling young women to develop sustainable micro-enterprises in smartphone and device repair.
2023

Empowering Youth Digitally Against Information Distortion

The Context

Strengthening media literacy among university students to reduce the spread of misinformation and coordinated disinformation campaigns.

Behavioral Diagnostics

Studied the psychological triggers and online behaviors responsible for sharing false information.

Human-Centered Design

Co-created practical media literacy tools and delivered 13 intensive training programmes across four universities.

Impact: Equipped more than 300 young people with practical fact-checking, critical thinking, and digital verification skills.
2022–2023

Restructuring Systems for Public Accountability

The Context

Collaborated with governance stakeholders to minimize operational vulnerabilities and institutional bottlenecks across administrative systems.

Behavioral Diagnostics

Conducted organizational assessments to identify psychological biases, institutional resistance, and procedural friction affecting compliance.

Human-Centered Design

Redesigned workflows and reporting systems around the daily realities of public servants.

Impact: Developed a network of institutional reform champions capable of implementing behaviorally informed compliance and accountability frameworks.

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Major Policy Projects

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Youth Empowered

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Community Partners

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