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Executive Summary
Amid the economic, political, and social difficulties that have exacerbated living conditions for the most vulnerable in Lebanon, this behavioral map adds value to the work conducted by Save the Children and the INMAA consortium on Sustainable Social Severely Vulnerable Protection Households and in Livelihood Lebanon. Solutions for From a behavioral science perspective, the project can be broken down into three key areas, the first one being household welfare, discussed throughout this document.
This behavioral map serves as an analytical tool in order to dissect the policy challenges that impede households from meeting their basic needs as well as to identify the negative coping strategies undertaken by households to make ends meet. Through the identification of stakeholders, the understanding of the household’s journey towards self-reliance, and the barriers and bottlenecks that hinder the household’s ability to become self-reliant, this document brings in behavioral science theory to account for some of these barriers.
Upon recognizing self-efficacy, intention-action gap, hassle factors, mental accounting, status quo bias, present bias, stereotype threat, overconfidence, and moral licensing as the most relevant behavioral biases, behavioral tools were used to devise interventions that strived to two target behaviors: to improve the spending habits of household heads, and to improve the reporting of social protection issues to livelihood counsellors.
Finally, this map illustrates the process of brainstorming and prioritization of intervention ideas to design an RCT experiment. The experiment is expected to increase households’ adherence to target behaviors, therefore contributing to the welfare of these severely vulnerable individuals.