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Empatika 2024 Year in Review
2024 was a challenging but meaningful year for Empatika. While our projects and activities covered a variety of topics, spanning from...
Nov 25, 20243 min read
Creative and adaptive approaches to conducting research with adolescents on taboo and sensitive topics in Indonesia
We feel an important part of being participatory and people-centered is always trying to look for creative, sensitive, and appropriate...
Sep 24, 20244 min read
Engaging marginalized urban communities: an empathetic and participatory approach to social welfare research
As government and community empowerment programs seek to break the cycle of poverty in Indonesia, research plays a crucial role. But one...
Aug 9, 20244 min read
Inspiring Behavior Change for Malaria Elimination: Communication Guideline for communities, developed alongside communities
The Malaria Communication Guideline: Inspiring Behaviour Change is the result of three years of work, starting with our multi-phase...
Feb 1, 20241 min read
2023 Wrap Up
Another year is here. As we wrap up 2023, we look back at a year which pointed towards transition. While we worked on many of our typical...
Nov 21, 20233 min read
Four Highlights from the SDGs Progress Report
Last month at the UN SDGs Summit, world leaders made a political declaration to accelerate action to help achieve the SDG goals. Of...
Jun 27, 20232 min read
Using people-driven design to explore solutions related to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in communities
“How might we combat COVID-19 misinformation in four steps?” During the COVID-19 pandemic, we found many people were hesitant about...
Mar 7, 20235 min read
Perspectives and experiences of migrants and their families on moving from villages to cities
One of Empatika’s first studies was a project for the World Bank looking at rural-to-urban migration. The most common reason we heard...
Feb 21, 20232 min read
Empatika Year in Review 2022
2023 arrived quickly, and somehow it’s already almost three years since the start of the pandemic. A strange and often difficult three...
Aug 29, 20222 min read
Child marriage and early union in Southeast Asia: piloting a tool to quantify patterns and typologie
At the very end of last year we wrapped up our pathways to adolescent pregnancy study, our first collaboration with the Burnet Institute...
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