New Podcast: Applying PDIA in Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea

We have released a new episode in our podcast series A Decade of Building State Capability. In this episode, Salimah Samji interviews Kirk Gibson who discusses his work tackling youth unemployment and social change in Timor-Leste and Papua New Guinea using PDIA principles.

Kirk Gibson is an international development practitioner working in the Pacific, Timor-Leste and Australia for over 15 years. He has worked on education, governance, leadership, workforce development, TVET and youth development projects for a range of NGO’s and Australian Government funded programs. He is passionate about the thinking and thinkers behind community development and about supporting locally led development. He currently works for a Papua New Guinean led organisation called The Voice Inc.

Learn more about BSC’s engagement with The Voice Inc in PNG, read about the PDIA approach, and access the PDIA toolkit.

Two teams of mixed Government of Timor-Leste, private sector and civil society doing PDIA on youth unemployment in agriculture, April 2022, Dili, Timor-Leste.

Fishbone diagram from PDIA workshops on jobs in agriculture

Slides from the workshops.

PDIA brainstorms on why youth aren't finding work in agriculture and starting a business

Slides from the workshops.

Facilitator interviewing Jose Ramos Horta, Secretary of State for Employment and now President of Timor-Leste on talkshow

A talkshow developed to support the coalition (called dalan ba hetan emprego). Facilitator is interviewing Secretary of State for Employment and (now) President of Timor-Leste, Jose Ramos Horta.