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Catapult Design leverages design to research, test and create innovative, accessible solutions
Catapult Design is a non-profit product and service design firm that works with socially driven organizations to build forward-looking, accessible, and market-based products and services that give low-income and underserved people reliable tools to improve their quality of life. Its team of designers, engineers, and business specialists dedicated to creating solutions to social problems with people and planet at the forefront.
Catapult Design partnered with Spindle Design, Open Knowledge Framework, DODO Design, YUX, and Alt Unfold to better understand and prioritize the unmet needs of women as they relate to modern contraceptive methods. In regions like Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal, contraceptive choices are often developed without sufficient input from women. This disconnect leads to solutions that may not fully address the nuanced and diverse preferences shaping women’s contraceptive decision-making.
The platform was used to document a robust set of insights, grounded in real stories and women’s experiences to helping inform the development of contraceptive solutions that are inclusive, accessible, and closely aligned with the realities of women’s lives.
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Current Status
The current phase of the project has been concluded with a global analysis of the data after the research in Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal have been completed. The output of the project is being used by the intended audience, and the platform is live and accessible to enable continuous access.
Case Study
OKF is helping Catapult define the future of contraceptives.
"This is the best platform ever"
Angela Hariche
Director, Catapult Design
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