On being and becoming a “development expert”
written by Michael Woolcock Half-way through my HKS course on ‘Social Institutions and Economic Development’ I host a class, usually timed to be given on the eve of spring break, […]
PDIA 101
Leading Remote Teams during Covid-19
Guest blog written by Lindsey Marchessault In the last few weeks, many organizations around the world have had to pivot sharply to remote work due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This […]
Views of public policy implementation success and failure: Sharing my thoughts
written by Matt Andrews There are many views on what constitutes success and failure in public policy implementation. I have been chewing on these a lot over the last couple […]
Knowing through doing, and learning
written by Matt Andrews In 2010, Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and I started writing about PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation) as a potential approach to do development differently. We had […]
Account based accountability and Aid Effectiveness
written by Lant Pritchett Improving “accountability” has been a popular agenda for improving public sector performance for some time, and I have promoted accountability as a key to effectiveness myself. […]
How do you know when to use PDIA?
written by Salimah Samji We often get asked the question “why do you need to use PDIA for a problem that we already know how to solve?” The answer is […]
Initiating action: The action-learning in PDIA
written by Matt Andrews I recently wrote a blog in response to a question I was asked by a colleague about how we move from the foundation or framing workshop […]
Active and adaptive planning versus set plans in PDIA
written by Matt Andrews A colleague asked me two questions in response to last week’s blog on initiating PDIA: “It does not sound like you develop a thorough plan for […]
Initiating PDIA: Start by running…and then run some more
written by Matt Andrews “Once there is interest, how do you start a PDIA project?” Many people have asked me this question. They are often in consulting firms or donor agencies […]
PDIA and Authorizers with an itch
written by Matt Andrews “How do you decide where to work on a PDIA project?” This is probably the most common question I have been asked with respect to PDIA. After […]