Guest blog by Ileana I. Ferber, IPP ’22 In the past seven years, I have been immersed and fascinated with local content policies related to the extractive sector (mining, oil, and gas). Once I became comfortable in analyzing and assessing the fitness of these policies to their specific country of origin, I started advocating for…Continue Reading Namibia’s Readiness to Support the Nascent Oil and Gas Industry
Guest blog by Pheakkdey Nguon Often times, as a technical expert, I am brought into a situation to try to address a policy problem, for example, illegal deforestation and its associated trade. The expectation is to get to the solutions or to be at a place where feasible recommendations for moving forward toward solutions are…Continue Reading Visualizing the Problem in Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation
Guest blog by Lasana A Kromah Sr I took on a new task at one of Liberia’s professional public institutions “The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA)” in 2015 as an Assistant Commissioner for the property tax division, where I was responsible to ensure the sustainable management of revenue growth and strategy development with respect to compliance…Continue Reading Developing and Implementing a Tax Arrears Management System in Liberia
Guest blog by Masindi Mashapha PDIA is influencing my outlook at a personal level because how I am managing my PhD study has changed drastically. While using the project management processes, I try and balance time and quality. I use learning and leads, moreover the iteration that brings different, improved, sometimes confusing results….Continue Reading High HIV Incidences Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa
Guest blog by Nancy Cross There were several key learnings from the IPP course. First, one person does not have all the answers. I wanted to work on sheltering the unhoused because it seemed as if there were enough financial resources to provide shelter for the approximately 1500 unhoused people in the greater St. Louis area….Continue Reading Sheltering the Unhoused in the St. Louis Region
Guest blog by Adesoji Adesugba My participation in 2022 Implementing Public Policy was timely and rewarding. IPP is the second program under the Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education series I have participated. The first was Leading Economic Growth, which I completed last December. The IPP program has exposed me to new policy ideas through shared…Continue Reading Using PDIA in Addressing the Non-Competitive and Inefficient Free Zone Scheme in Nigeria
Guest blog by Tomas Gonzalez No matter where you come from or how old you are, if you are reading this, it is possible that you are or going to be part of the IPP community, or maybe you care about how to try to solve public problems in the city, place, or country you…Continue Reading Adopting PDIA to Create Better Capabilities in the Public Finance of Oaxaca, Mexico
Guest blog by Agustín I. Filippo For you all considering or going through the IPP course, be ready for a transformational experience. If you’re like most of the people I met here, troubled, and somewhat frustrated with current practice in your development practice, you’ll get an amazing lot from joining. The closer you are from…Continue Reading Addressing the Lack of Employment Opportunities in Southern Mexico
Guest blog by Eileen Cipriani It has been a great pleasure to be part of a class with so many dynamic leaders, doing such diverse and important work and to be part of such an impressive program at the Harvard Kennedy School. After listening to the problems my colleagues were trying to solve, I thought…Continue Reading Providing Quality Housing in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Guest blog by Antonio Saad In 2018 I decided to start a certification in public policies at Harvard, understanding that the great challenges that my country faces, require a deep understanding of how the public sector works and also what tools could give me the bases to be able to provide better solutions to the…Continue Reading Improving Public Education in Panama
