Congo Calling Rebooted
Guest blog written by Bandi Mbubi At the beginning of 2019, Harvard Kennedy School invited me to apply for its executive program in Implementing Public Policy. The letter was timely as […]
Africa
Highlighting Experience and Learning in Nigeria
Guest blog written by Fatima Kakuri Coming to Harvard to do this course, my goal was to gain advanced thought and greater insight into public policy concepts, theories, elements, types […]
PDIA is a Journey about How to Engage
Guest blog written by Eleanor Sarpong My first reaction when I was introduced to the course on IPP via email was hesitation- “Really how different will this course be to […]
Public Leadership Through Crisis 14: Lessons on Crisis Communication from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
written by Matt Andrews Peter Harrington is an alumni of the Harvard Kennedy School, and a former fellow with the Building State Capability program (BSC). In 2014, Peter worked with […]
Public Leadership Through Crisis 13: Tolbert Nyenswah on leading through Liberia’s Ebola epidemic
written by Matt Andrews Tolbert Nyenswah is a Senior Research Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2014 he was the head of the Liberian Incident […]
Public Leadership Through Crisis 11: Reorganizing to address the crisis
written by Matt Andrews I was on a call two days ago with a former student who is now deeply involved in his country’s Covid-19 crisis response. He said something […]
Enhancing the employability of young people in Guinea
Guest blog written by Thierno lliassa Balde The Guinean tertiary education and Technical Education and Professional Training (TVET) system is dominated by programs that do not meet the needs of […]
The Legitimacy of Performance and Problem Oriented Institutional Development in Ethiopia
Guest blog written by Etambuyu A Gundersen I had very high expectations of the course and what I was going to get out of it in terms of gaining not […]
Improving Tax Compliance in Uganda
Guest blog written by Doris Akol My previous experience with public policy has hitherto been mainly as a formulator of organizational policies which are then implemented by other units and […]
Lagos Beats Plastic
Guest blog written by Emmanuel Adedeji Animashaun, Sedoten Agosa-Anikwe, Olumide Gregory Adeboye and Eriifeoluwa Fiyin Mofoluwawo This is a team of development practitioners who work for the Lagos State Ministry […]