Guest blog by Tim Kornprobst, LEG ’23 The past 10 weeks have been an inspiring for me. Thanks to the Leading Economic Growth Program, I have better understood the complexity of an important challenge: Recycling in Jordan. Prior to the course, as a researcher and advisor, I have worked with the methods of the Center…Continue Reading Doing Recycling Differently in Jordan
Guest Blog by Dina Alzubi, LEG ’22 Below are some key ideas/learnings that I took away from this course 1. Taking time to construct and deconstruct the problem is important: the course really emphasized for me the importance of spending enough time constructing and deconstructing the problem at hand. Tools like the fishbone diagram and identifying…Continue Reading Top Insights from “Leading Economic Growth”
Guest Blog by Iman Kharabshen LEG ’22 The main challenge facing Jordan is how to stimulate strong, real and sustainable economic growth that contributes to creating new jobs in the Jordanian national economy. The permanent advice received by all countries that suffer from high unemployment rates is to work to stimulate economic growth, as growth…Continue Reading Using PDIA to Examine Unemployment in Jordan
Guest blog by Rami Alhadid, LEG ’22 Most of the challenges that faces any country’s economic stance are complex and not easy to solve. However any complex problem can be break down to be manageable using robust toolkits, such as PDIA approach, Fishbone diagram, identifying the main binding constraint, AAA techniques…etc. The PDIA approach entails…Continue Reading Addressing growth challenges in Jordan
Guest blog written by Lara Khaled Abdullah Hussein, Mai Aziz Shafiq Elian, Rana Riad Al-Ansari This is a team of development practitioners who work as strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation specialists for the Ministry of Labour (MoL) in Jordan. They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in May 2019. This is their story. We…Continue Reading Solving the Problem of Unemployment in Jordan
