New Book: Navigation by Judgment
We hosted Dan Honig a few weeks ago to discuss his new book published by Oxford University Press. Here are some highlights.
News & Updates
Watch our new PDIA video!
We have been told many times that the acronym PDIA is clunky and that it doesn’t easily roll off the tongue. Matt Andrews’ response to that has been, “it doesn’t […]
Taking stock of our achievements in 2017
written by Salimah Samji The Building State Capability (BSC) program had a very busy 2017. We are a small team of doers who are constantly testing, learning, reflecting, and adapting our […]
Democratizing PDIA knowledge one practitioner at a time
written by Salimah Samji We now have 569 development practitioners in 64 countries who have successfully completed a version of our free PDIA course. Since we began our online journey […]
Building State Capability: Review of an important (and practical) new book
Guest blog by Duncan Green Jetlag is a book reviewer’s best friend. In the bleary small hours in NZ and now Australia, I have been catching up on my reading. […]
PDIA Course: Alumni are already practicing what they learned
written by Salimah Samji We offered 4 free PDIA online courses between November 2015 and June 2016. They were well received and 365 people, living in 56 countries, successfully completed […]
Download the new PDIA book for free
written by Salimah Samji We are delighted to inform you that our PDIA book entitled, “Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action” was just published by Oxford University Press. The book presents […]
Doing development differently: two years on, what are we learning?
On 17 November 2016, ODI, in collaboration with the Building State Capability program at Harvard University, convened a private workshop bringing together a number of actors from academia, civil society, […]
The “PDIA: Notes from the Real World” blog series
written by Salimah Samji We are delighted to announce our new PDIA: Notes from the Real World blog series. In this series we will share our lessons from our PDIA experiments […]
The PDIA Anthem
Need help decoding the acronym PDIA? Check out the PDIA anthem. This Anthem uses the Instrumental from Mos Def – Mathematics. It was made by a very talented student as […]