Guest blog by Ig Ibert Bittencourt, IPP’23 The main lessons from this course were:…Continue Reading Improving Learning of K-9 Students in Brazil
Improving Learning of K-9 Students in Brazil
Using PDIA to Tackle Educational Inequities in Brazil
Guest blog by Cesar Nunes, IPP 2021 It was a joy to know that the new edition of the Implementing Public Policy (IPP) course would be offered in 2021. I knew about the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach and was already following the Building State Capabilities website and YouTube channel. I had already read…Continue Reading Using PDIA to Tackle Educational Inequities in Brazil
Promoting design for global business in Brazil
Guest blog by Isabel Tarrisse da Fontoura “The flow of life envelopes everything. That’s life: it heats up and cools down, it tightens and then loosens up, it becomes calm and then unrests. What it wants from us is courage”. João Guimaraes Rosa 1. An act of courage The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) program Implementing Public…Continue Reading Promoting design for global business in Brazil
Using PDIA to Improve Public Education in Brazil
written by Salimah Samji In August 2021, we began an engagement with Instituto Sonho Grande (ISG) in Brazil to build the capability of public servants working in secretariats of education in the states of Maranhão and Paraíba. In this virtual action learning program, 60 public servants working across 11 teams, learned how to use PDIA to solve…Continue Reading Using PDIA to Improve Public Education in Brazil
Diversifying the ICT market in Brazil
Guest blog by Marcia Matsubayashi If I could summarize this course experience in one word it is “inspiring”. I am sure all my colleagues who attended this course were inspired by the faculty to mobilize for action, since we feel more empowered (and knowledgeable) to make the impact in our societies….Continue Reading Diversifying the ICT market in Brazil
Working on trade in Mexico from Sao Paulo
Guest blog written by Oscar Benitez We all experienced the turmoil caused by Covid-19 in 2020. We will spend years trying to describe how it became a huge setback for every activity and economic sector. In my case, I spent several months putting on hold most of the projects of the year, to eventually seeing them…Continue Reading Working on trade in Mexico from Sao Paulo
A Problem-driven Approach to Complexity, Public Policy and Economic Growth
Guest blog written by Claudio Roberto Amitrano What is development? How is it driven? How can we get there? Who is it for? What do countries have in common? What are their specific problems? How do we identify them? How do we find solutions? Who will lead, authorize, design and implement them? Who are ‘We’…Continue Reading A Problem-driven Approach to Complexity, Public Policy and Economic Growth
Early Childhood Education in Brazil
Guest blog written by Beatriz Abuchaim A big headache. It was what I felt in the introductory class at Kennedy School. It was not my first experience at Harvard. I had taken a course in 2018 at Center on the Developing Child, but it didn’t have the same pressure I was feeling as a Public Policy…Continue Reading Early Childhood Education in Brazil
Finding the Fringes of Formality: Organizational Capability in Street-Level Bureaucracies in Brazil
Guest blog written by Susana Cordeiro Guerra Why is it that, despite the abundant resources invested and the largely favorable macroeconomic conditions that have prevailed until recently, middle-income countries have been unable to systematically deliver quality basic services, such as education and safety, to their citizens? Despite a wide variety of attempts to improve these crucial…Continue Reading Finding the Fringes of Formality: Organizational Capability in Street-Level Bureaucracies in Brazil