Introduction
Busara Center for Behavioral Economics (Busara) welcomes submissions for Expressions of Interest to consultants who specialise in Behavioral Design and Qualitative Research at an advanced level, for purposes of pre-qualification for the provision of their consulting services.

About Busara
Busara is a leading behavioral science organization in the Global South, where we apply behavioral science to help alleviate poverty through advisory work and original academic research. Busara applies rigorous research methods and evaluation tools to enable partners to improve program design, assess existing interventions, and optimize internal processes. We work with governments, NGOs, private companies and academics to understand human behavior, and design solutions to overcome behavioral barriers to products, programs, and policies as they scale.

Busara operates from its permanent offices in Kenya, Nigeria, India, Uganda, and Tanzania, and has worked on projects with partners internationally. We have launched a new strategy to expand our work globally, signed new projects across Africa, South Asia and South America all in pursuit of our twin missions of advancing behavioral science and alleviating poverty as we strive to bridge the gap between research and application. We have worked on projects related to agriculture, financial inclusion, savings, inequality, entrepreneurship, civic engagement, and other questions central to development economics.

Objective of the Assignment
The consultant will work as part of a larger project team composed of other full-time staff and consultants, and is expected to make contributions to an ongoing design and qualitative research process. This process will involve working with Busara’s internal team and its client to provide expertise in design thinking research, development of interventions and understanding of design methodologies. This would be a good role for you if you have a background in participatory design, community organizing, social work, policy and advocacy. All potential designs will need to address specific previously identified behavioral problems, as well as incorporate behavioral economics principles to further optimize them.