Guest blog written by Alfonso Blanco Bonilla I have the honor of leading the Latin American Energy Organization since 2017. OLADE is the international organization formed by 27 LAC countries, represented by their governments, to act in support of the development of the energy sector in the Latin American and Caribbean región (LAC). During my…Continue Reading PDIA to accelerate energy transitions and net zero economies in LAC
written by José Eguigure and Daniel Barjum A few weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris, and other top officials, including Samantha Power, Administrator of the United States Agency of International Development, and former professor at Harvard University, attended the inauguration of Xiomara Castro as the first female President of Honduras in its 200 years of…Continue Reading Can the private sector help to pave the way to tackle complex challenges in the Northern Triangle of Central America?
Guest blog by Silverio Zebral Filho I’ve started my PDIA journey 6 months ago, interested in gaining a deeper learning about alternative approaches to tackle a wicked (ill-defined, multi-sourced, technically complex and politically sensitive) problem in the context of large institutional divergence (weak rules, strong social norms), lack of state capacity, declining interpersonal trust and…Continue Reading A half-empty glass and the joy of “failing forward”
written by Matt Andrews We at the Building State Capability program (BSC) have been working directly with governments for over a decade now; focused on helping agents in those governments build their capability to deliver for citizens and society. We are not consultants. We do not write purely academic papers, offer technical advice, or work…Continue Reading PDIA for Delivery Facilitation
written by: Matt Andrews The energy sector in Honduras has a history of inefficiency. Financial and energy losses have festered for decades. Various reforms and interventions (often supported by external agents, like this World Bank project) have not solved the problem. In November 2018 a new unit in the President’s Office helped to mobilize a…Continue Reading Empowered to address the power problems in Honduras: A PDIA journey in progress
From left to right: Jose Arocha, Matt Andrews, Marco Midence and Jorge Jimenez. Over the past 10 weeks, Matt Andrews has been working with a team of three mid-career students from Latin America on a project applying the problem analysis in PDIA to the challenge of growth in Honduras. We had shared their fishbone diagram in…Continue Reading Using PDIA to Decode Growth in Honduras
written by Matt Andrews We at the Building State Capability program have the good fortune of working with amazing practitioners from all over the world, and on topics of real importance. This semester, for instance, I am working with a team of three mid-career students from Latin America on a project applying the problem analysis…Continue Reading PDIA for growth in Honduras: A student project with major promise
