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Category: PDIA in Action 2020

Posts relating to the MLD103 class of 2020

Bringing the Field to the Classroom: Learning to do PDIA in Practice

Matt Andrews and Salimah Samji with MLD103 students and their authorizers in a classroom

written by Salimah Samji Implementation is hard. It is often the weakest link in the success of a policy or program. Yet, public policy education remains focused on teaching students to design and analyze policies. As Francis Fukuyama aptly wrote, “most programs train students to become capable policy analysts, but with no understanding of how to…Continue Reading Bringing the Field to the Classroom: Learning to do PDIA in Practice

PDIA and Coordination Challenges within Government

Government building in Tarrant County, Texas

Guest blog written by Nevena Bosnic, Mehdi El Boukhari, Ama Peiris, Matthew Welchert Over the past seven weeks, our group embarked on the learning journey of problem driven iterative adaptation (PDIA) as it applies to coordination challenges facing the various levels of government as well as civil society in addressing homelessness in Tarrant County, Texas….Continue Reading PDIA and Coordination Challenges within Government

Becoming Comfortable with Complexity: Maternal Mortality in Meghalaya

Pregnancy

Guest blog written by Rebecca Trupin, Prateek Mittal Our PDIA journey began with our authorizer, a senior bureaucrat in the State Government of Meghalaya, sharing a document with us about his vision to build capability of the state administration to deal with complex problems. We had been working with him on local governance-related projects and…Continue Reading Becoming Comfortable with Complexity: Maternal Mortality in Meghalaya

PDIA and Dementia in the Workplace

A woman using a laptop to assist and elderly man sitting next to her

Guest blog written by Tamsir Cham, Andrea Hayes, Fateme Najafi, Aysha Valery Overall, we learned that the PDIA process is about being patient, digging deep into a problem, continuing to iterate, and engaging both the stakeholders and the authorizers.  We also learned how to dig deep into problems.  Digging deep requires discovering the underlying or root causes…Continue Reading PDIA and Dementia in the Workplace

Strengthening Collaboration to Tackle Increasing Homicides in Charlotte, North Carolina

Crime scene tape in front of police cars

Guest blog written by Simone D’Abreu, Smriti Iyer, Sofia Salas, Hafou Toure, Annie White PDIA can simultaneously hold the complexity of being exciting and frustrating; challenging and inspiring; harder and easier than you think. If we could choose one phrase to define PDIA, it would probably be iterative learning. In the next few lines, we…Continue Reading Strengthening Collaboration to Tackle Increasing Homicides in Charlotte, North Carolina

A Reflection on PDIA in Action: Homelessness in Tarrant County

PDIA in Action group team meeting

Guest blog written by Akbar Ahmadzai, Emma Davies, Renzo Lavin, Fernando Marquez Six weeks ago, the class counted off numbers: One, two, three, four, five. Repeat. One, two, three, four, five. Repeat. Some of us were fortunate enough to have been assigned to group 2. Others convinced classmates to switch with them. Regardless of how we…Continue Reading A Reflection on PDIA in Action: Homelessness in Tarrant County