We have released a new episode in our podcast series A Decade of Building State Capability. In this episode, BSC Director Salimah Samji interviews Cara Myers, who we met in 2018 when she took our MLD103 class as an MPAID student at the Harvard Kennedy School. In this episode, Cara discusses her work with Mozambique…Continue Reading New Podcast: Applying PDIA in Mozambique
We have released a new episode in our podcast series A Decade of Building State Capability. For our third episode of the series, BSC Director Salimah Samji interviews Michael Woolcock, a co-author of the Building State Capability book. In this episode, Michael discusses the process of coming up with the PDIA approach to help development practitioners…Continue Reading New Podcast: Michael Woolcock Shares how he has Applied PDIA at the World Bank
We have released a new episode in our podcast series A Decade of Building State Capability. Our second episode of the series features Andrew Lawson who did an independent evaluation of PDIA during our work with CABRI in Africa in 2018, commissioned by the Gates Foundation. He published a related piece in the World Development Perspectives in September 2023….Continue Reading New Podcast: Andrew Lawson Reflects on his Evaluation of PDIA in Africa
Over the past decade, we have engaged with over 3,500 practitioners in 148 countries. At a recent event, our team discussed the evolution of PDIA and its pedagogical methods, as well as shared reflections on their journey of building capability and igniting change. The event featured a presentation reviewing our work since 2012 and featured…Continue Reading Event: Reflecting on a Decade of Building State Capability around the World
This past year, Building State Capability (BSC) celebrated its 10-year anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, we are very excited to launch our new podcast series, A Decade of Building State Capability. This series will feature interviews with practitioners who reflect their engagement with Building State Capability over the past 10 years and their experience using…Continue Reading New Podcast Series: A Decade of Building State Capability
Our case studies allow you to learn more about how Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) works in practice. Navigate to our website to access cases on the following topics with more coming soon:…Continue Reading Learn from our PDIA Case Studies
Did you know that the PDIA Toolkit is not the only guide we have available on our website? In an effort to make more tools and resources accessible, we added self-paced guides to our website, putting you in the driver’s seat of your learning journey. You can explore blogs, videos, and podcast collections on the…Continue Reading Discover and Learn from our Self-Paced Guides
written by Salimah Samji Building State Capability (BSC) empowers public organizations to find local solutions to local problems and to improve the implementation of their policies and programs. BSC has developed Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA), a learning by doing approach, that helps develop the capability to solve complex public problems. We build capability by…Continue Reading BSC 2022: The Year in Review
written by Salimah Samji Implementation is often the Achilles heel of good policy. Yet there is dearth of practical tools focused on how you get things done. You can have the best policy, the money, the people, and still not achieve your end goal. Knowing what to do is not a sufficient condition for success. Results: Getting Beyond…Continue Reading Practicing the Art of Implementation
written by Salimah Samji Over the past three years, we have engaged on research titled “Understanding How Education Systems Build Capability, Innovate and Improve their Practices” as part of the Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE) programme. One of the components of this work is to explore whether BSC’s Problem Driven Iteration Adaptation (PDIA)…Continue Reading Insights from Applying PDIA in the Education Sector
