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Building and Engaging the PDIA Community of Practice 

  • Publication date May 29, 2025
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Blog written by Mannat Singh Building State Capability (BSC) has trained over 4,500 public problem solvers in 156 countries to use the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach. However, policy problems are complex and often persist, necessitating constant collaboration and real-time learning.    In December 2024, we launched our new PDIA Community of Practice platform. Designed…Continue Reading Building and Engaging the PDIA Community of Practice 

Event: PDIA in Tunisia and Jordan

  • Publication date April 14, 2025
Tim Kornprobst, Lobna Jeribi, and Peter Harrington presenting

Earlier this year, 21 IPP alumni from 15 countries gathered in Bahrain for our first Implementing Public Policy (IPP) community of practice seminar for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. As part of this event, IPP alums, Lobna Jeribi and Tim Kornprobst discussed their experience using the PDIA approach to address solid waste…Continue Reading Event: PDIA in Tunisia and Jordan

How do you support a Community of Practice when the world economy is navigating uncharted waters?

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Guest blog written by Amrita Deonarine, Liana Elliott, Perihan Tawfik, and Urkhan Seyidov 2022, a new year, the IPP Community of Practice (CoP) welcomes a new batch of IPPers, a new group of moderators to the CoP, and a new plethora of complex challenges. By January 2022, when our term as moderators began, the world…Continue Reading How do you support a Community of Practice when the world economy is navigating uncharted waters?

Friendship, Energy, Innovation and Community: The Heart of the IPP Community and Fuel for Good

IPP Community of Practice moderators

Guest blog written by Isabel Fontoura, Nadia Islam, Bandi Mbubi, Doran Moreland What makes people not run away from but run towards challenges to get things done when facing complex policy problems? Although any sole answer is unlikely to cover all of the nuances of the question we pose to you at the start of…Continue Reading Friendship, Energy, Innovation and Community: The Heart of the IPP Community and Fuel for Good

Reflections on the Importance of Community: A Message from our IPP Moderators

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Guest blog written by Doran Moreland We live in complicated times occupied with strident partisanship, disinformation, social division, endless cyber distractions, and work and family interactions that are consigned to computer screens. Taking all these factors into account, the idea of forming and maintaining a community is in itself a radical act.  Nearly two years…Continue Reading Reflections on the Importance of Community: A Message from our IPP Moderators

Building a Movement of Public Problem Solvers

written by Salimah Samji Solving public problems is a hard and thankless job. One that is undertaken with a shortage of time as well as resources, and often under pressure to deliver results. A common approach used to solve public problems is to develop a plan, sometimes with experts, and then to assume that implementation…Continue Reading Building a Movement of Public Problem Solvers

Practice Makes Purpose

Guest blog written by Eleanor Sarpong, Maggie Jones, Marco Mastellari, Mohamed Hejres This blog is written by the alumni of the Implementing Public Policy Executive Education Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Alumni of this program become part of HKS’s Implementing Public Policy Community of Practice. These are the first set of Moderators of this Community. This is…Continue Reading Practice Makes Purpose