Guest blog by Ghada Abuzaid, LEG’23 Cities and countries can create vibrant economies out of the blues, putting in place the right ingredients, driven by the right people and institutions, using the right tools. But it takes a steep climb. It takes action, learning, agility and patience, trust and legitimacy to pursue higher scale the…Continue Reading Who Owns the Future and How to Lead Economic Growth in Egypt?
Guest blog by Vusal Shikhaliyev, IPP’23 The aspirations for accelerating economic reforms required a new approach in the reform governance process to enable a much faster process desired by the government to improve the business environment and attract investments into non-oil sector. …Continue Reading Reforming Governance Process for Accelerating Economic Reforms in Azerbaijan
Guest blog by Wendy Koh, LEG’23 Throughout this course, I have gained valuable insights into the complexities of economic growth. Some key ideas and learnings that I will take away:…Continue Reading Economic Opportunities for Indigenous Communities in British Columbia
Guest blog by Tingyu Wu, IPP’23 Embarking on this PDIA (Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation) program has been quite a ride, and it’s changed my life in unexpected ways. Let me give you some context—I’m not your typical politician or government official. By day, I’m a co-founder of a marketing consulting company, keeping busy with the usual…Continue Reading Empowering Singapore’s Young Innovators: Navigating Challenges in Resource Mobilization using PDIA
Guest blog by Fabian Klinge, LEG’23 The past ten weeks have been a fantastic learning journey for me. The course has managed to strike an ideal balance between policy and implementation – between cutting-edge theoretical approaches to analyzing growth challenges on the one hand, and practice-based strategies for bringing about change in real-world (development) settings…Continue Reading Diversification of the Export Economy in Bangladesh
Guest blog by Nahla Harb, IPP’23 The IPP course was very enriching and a life changing experience for me. The key learnings encompassed a wide range of tips of knowing what and knowing how, starting from PDIA, a creative approach in policy making to the communication and the leadership styles. …Continue Reading Improving Students’ Wellbeing and Learning through a Social Emotional Learning Policy in Lebanon
Guest blog by John Jenks, IPP’23 The policy implementation challenge that I worked on during the Implementation Public Policy (IPP) course was the shortage of workforce in the State of Wyoming that discourages new firms from entering the state, inhibits existing firms from growing or expanding, and/or contributes to existing firms closing shop and moving…Continue Reading Addressing the Labor Shortage in the State of Wyoming
Guest blog by Antti Leino, IPP’23 When presented with the opportunity to take the Harvard IPP program in the spring of 2023, I was a bit hesitant at first as my workload was substantial. But I also saw it as a chance to evaluate and view my day-to-day job from a wider angle, maybe even…Continue Reading Reducing Socio-spatial Segregation among Youth and Children in Helsinki
Guest blog by Alvina Sharpe, IPP’23 Some key learnings from this course are about being or managing oneself to be a strategic lead. A leader who understands the direction of his or the team goal(s) and is in the position to clearly articulate the goal to the least person in the organization for understanding. It…Continue Reading Strategic Leadership for Revenue Collection in Liberia
Guest blog by Ronald Mutabazi, IPP’23 Friday, 27th May, 2022 looked like another ordinary working day. I was to attend a meeting on projects implementation in the Ministry of Finance. We discussed a long list of them, with boring stories of why their implementation was rated “on-track”, “on-watch”, “off-track”, blah, blah, blah… I had seen…Continue Reading Policy Design and Implementation in Rwanda: Against All the Odds
