Apply behavioural insights to your policy projects

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Apply behavioural insights to your policy projects

A free online course, the 4D Framework, has been released by PM&C’s Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government (BETA) on their project methodology.

BETA’s aim is to improve the lives of Australians by putting human behaviour at the heart of government policy.

BETA developed the 4D framework to help manage their behavioural insights (BI) projects. The 4Ds are the project stages of Discover, Diagnose, Design and Deliver.

4Ds framework for managing behavioural insights projects and the stages of Discover: Define the policy, program or Define the policy, program or service delivery issue and develop a behavioural problem statement; Diagnose: Understand the current behaviour and its drivers and develop a clearly defined hypothesis of behaviour change; Design: Intervention (Design an intervention to address the behavioural problem) and Evaluation (Design an evaluation to test the intervention); and Deliver: Implement the intervention and evaluation and share the results.

Now you can learn how a behavioural insights project progresses from start to finish and apply BETA’s methodology to your own policy work.

The hour-long course builds on BETA’s ‘Behavioural insights for public policy’ eLearn course, and provides resources to help you put the BI theories covered in that course into practice.

Whether you work in a BI team or are a policy maker who wants to learn to apply BI thinking to their work, this course is for you.

Find out about the 4D Framework and how you can take this free course on the BETA website.