PDIA for Delivery Facilitation
written by Matt Andrews We at the Building State Capability program (BSC) have been working directly with governments for over a decade now; focused on helping agents in those governments […]
Latin America & Caribbean
Empowered to address the power problems in Honduras: A PDIA journey in progress
written by: Matt Andrews The energy sector in Honduras has a history of inefficiency. Financial and energy losses have festered for decades. Various reforms and interventions (often supported by external […]
Stop, Look, and Listen! Preventing Recruitment of Youth into Illicit Activities in Southern Colombia
Guest blog written by Cameron Berkuti, Christina Schultz, Diana Acuña, Juan Pablo Castaño, Kelly Brooks, Susan Kemp This team successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December […]
Team Soedalan’s PDIA Course Journey: High Maternal Mortality in Dominican Republic
Guest blog by Ana de Apraiz, Alberto Nuñez, Eduardo Gomez and Sofia Guillot Team Soedalan successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in June 2018. They are a multidisciplinary […]
Using PDIA to Decode Growth in Honduras
From left to right: Jose Arocha, Matt Andrews, Marco Midence and Jorge Jimenez. Over the past 10 weeks, Matt Andrews has been working with a team of three mid-career students from […]
PDIA for growth in Honduras: A student project with major promise
written by Matt Andrews We at the Building State Capability program have the good fortune of working with amazing practitioners from all over the world, and on topics of real […]
Finding the Fringes of Formality: Organizational Capability in Street-Level Bureaucracies in Brazil
Guest blog written by Susana Cordeiro Guerra Why is it that, despite the abundant resources invested and the largely favorable macroeconomic conditions that have prevailed until recently, middle-income countries have been […]
BSC Video 16: Isomorphic Mimicry in Argentina
Mimicry is an effective strategy for governments to get short-term support from external development organizations. However, it is an ineffective strategy for building long-term capability. In this video, Matt Andrews […]