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Event: Reflecting on a Decade of Building State Capability around the World

  • Publication date November 10, 2023
Salimah Samji presenting to audience members

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

New Podcast Series: A Decade of Building State Capability

  • Publication date October 31, 2023
Awa Touray presenting at CABRI

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

BSC 2022: The Year in Review

BSC group photo outside in front of a restaurant

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

Practicing the Art of Implementation

Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done book cover

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

Insights from Applying PDIA in the Education Sector

Girl reading

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

Applications for our Leading Economic Growth Executive Program are Open!

We are offering Leading Economic Growth online again from October 3 – December 9th 2022. Application deadline is September 12th, 2022. Stimulating growth is the top economic priority for many countries and localities around the world. Yet many are trapped, lacking the productive capability to solve problems and expand to new industries to drive development. New growth strategies…Continue Reading Applications for our Leading Economic Growth Executive Program are Open!

Traveling the World via the Building State Capability Blog

Guest blog written by Dana Radojević and Lauren Truong Four months ago, we set off on a journey across the world – though not in the way you might expect.  You see… we weren’t traversing the jungles of Peru, eating street food in Thailand, or admiring the ancient ruins of Greece. Nor were we running…Continue Reading Traveling the World via the Building State Capability Blog

Apply for our Leading Economic Growth Executive Program!

We are offering Leading Economic Growth online again from February 28 – May 6th 2022. Application deadline is February 7th, 2022. Stimulating growth is the top economic priority for many countries and localities around the world. Yet many are trapped, lacking the productive capability to solve problems and expand to new industries to drive development. New growth strategies…Continue Reading Apply for our Leading Economic Growth Executive Program!