Guest blog by Dmytro Lyvch, LEG ’23 As you may probably know, Ukraine is now facing one of the biggest challenges of the decade – full scale war that has its dramatic outcomes for the society and economy of Ukraine (GDP has dropped by 29% in 2022; total damages and losses accounted for ca USD…Continue Reading Organizing for Success: Ukraine’s Economic Recovery Post-War and EU Integration
Improving Food Safety Standards in Ukraine
Guest blog by Kateryna Onul The COVID-19 crisis has coincided with reform within my organization and an urgent need to find new approaches to working with the public sector in different parts of the world. I was looking for tools that could help me continue working on improving policy and regulatory frameworks in the food safety…Continue Reading Improving Food Safety Standards in Ukraine
Keys to Unlocking Policy Locks: Legal Education in Ukraine
Guest blog by Artem Shaipov Having earned in 2018 a certificate for successful completion of the online series “The Practice of PDIA: Building capability by delivering results” offered by Building State Capability at the Harvard Center for International Development, I learned about the Implementing Public Policy Program (IPP) from the PDIA Community’s first newsletter. I jumped…Continue Reading Keys to Unlocking Policy Locks: Legal Education in Ukraine
Exploring Legal Education Reform in Ukraine
Guest blog written by Ilhom Aliyev, Yousif Folathi Alkhoori, Manoj Kumar, Mike Ramirez, Frederick Tarantino MLD 103MA: Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) in Action: Development Through Facilitated Emergence is among the best classes at Harvard Kennedy School. This hidden infinity stone, 2-credit class challenges you to solve real-world, complex problems using the PDIA approach. The tried-and-true…Continue Reading Exploring Legal Education Reform in Ukraine
Coupling Action Learning and International Development
Guest blog written by Artem Shaipov After completing the Implementing Public Policy Program and joining the IPP Community of Practice, I was thrilled to receive an invitation to work with a group of master students taking a class at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) titled, “Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) in Action: Development through facilitated…Continue Reading Coupling Action Learning and International Development
Learning to Crawl: Can a Health Financing Reform Unshackle Ukraine’s Growth Potential?
Guest blog written by Dzhygyr Yuriy Through past two decades, Ukraine has been steadily descending the Atlas economic complexity ranking list, going down from #30 in 2001 to #50 in 2016. At the lowest border of the second highest quintile, it is a relatively advanced economy and was assessed by Ricardo Hausmann’s international complexity simulations…Continue Reading Learning to Crawl: Can a Health Financing Reform Unshackle Ukraine’s Growth Potential?
Legal Education Reform in Ukraine
Guest blog written by Artem Shaipov, Ivan Shemelynets, Sheverdin Maksym, Maryna Yakubovych. This is a team works for the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the Legal Education Committee of the Ukrainian Bar Association, and the USAID New Justice Program in Ukraine. They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is…Continue Reading Legal Education Reform in Ukraine