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Building and Sustaining Local Crude Oil Refining Capacity in Nigeria Using the PDIA Technique

  • Publication date May 16, 2023
Kugbo, Abuja, Nigeria

Guest blog by Nyeso George The last six months has been like six years learning the nuggets of policy implementation especially using the PDIA Technique. In the process, how I plan to use what has been learnt and my key takeaways can be summarized as follows: Centrality of clarity in problem definition – in most…Continue Reading Building and Sustaining Local Crude Oil Refining Capacity in Nigeria Using the PDIA Technique

Improved Public Spaces and Infrastructure for the People of Compton, California

  • Publication date May 8, 2023
The Compton City Team

Guest blog by Karen Harris, Rosalind McGary, La Shawn Kindle-Young, Jimmie Smith, John D. Strickland Jr, Maria Villareal, Alonzo Williams The Great Outta Compton team was officially established in January 2023 by Mayor Emma Sharif to tackle some of the problems facing our community. The team consists of community stakeholders, and city staff; each of…Continue Reading Improved Public Spaces and Infrastructure for the People of Compton, California

Tackling Traffic Congestion in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Traffic congestion at night

Guest blog by Romeo Ramlakhan, IPP ’22 “Good luck with that!” Those where the exact same words an elected official in City Hall told me in the early days of my tenure as Chief of Staff in the City of Santo Domingo in 2020, as we were discussing municipal policy agenda-setting for the coming years….Continue Reading Tackling Traffic Congestion in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

LEG in Practice: Exploring Growth Opportunities and Renewable Energy in Western Australia

Guest Blog by Warner Priest, LEG ’22 In many cases, I find when faced with a challenge it is difficult to know where to start and what to do and I find myself procrastinating. The step-by-step approach to Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) has become a useful tool to getting whatever challenge I am faced with…Continue Reading LEG in Practice: Exploring Growth Opportunities and Renewable Energy in Western Australia

Using PDIA to tackle Claiborne Expressway challenges in New Orleans

Guest blog by Derek Chisholm, IPP 2021 The Implementing Public Policy (IPP) course attracted my attention as it seemed to focus on providing direct, hands-on means of implementing public policy.  Successful public policy, in my experience, is much more dependent on implementation than on the passage of initial policy legislation, especially when that legislation is…Continue Reading Using PDIA to tackle Claiborne Expressway challenges in New Orleans

PDIA to accelerate energy transitions and net zero economies in LAC

Image of a Dam

Guest blog written by Alfonso Blanco Bonilla I have the honor of leading the Latin American Energy Organization since 2017. OLADE is the international organization formed by 27 LAC countries, represented by their governments, to act in support of the development of the energy sector in the Latin American and Caribbean región (LAC). During my…Continue Reading PDIA to accelerate energy transitions and net zero economies in LAC

Implementing to design better: Clean energy transition for islands

Guest blog by Ana Laca I work primarily in foreign affairs and regional development, but as a side passion project, I have been actively working on islands’ energy transition. I work for a European institution on legislative procedures, following particular files as they pass through a legislative train until their final adoption. For my action…Continue Reading Implementing to design better: Clean energy transition for islands

Private sector investment in renewable energy in Mongolia

Guest blog written by Hisaka Kimura 1. My expectation of IPP Online Asian Development Bank, which I work with, has been strengthening its field offices to respond more effectively to the evolving challenges. Based in Beijing, one of the largest field offices, I lead private sector country work for China and Mongolia, focusing on strategy,…Continue Reading Private sector investment in renewable energy in Mongolia

Building sustainable and equitable transportation systems in Toronto

Guest blog written by Judy Farvolden I am passionate about vibrant, equitable, sustainable urban life. My journey began in Paris when, as a 17-year-old living for a year in the City of Light, I wondered at the difference between living in a place where every day-to-day thing I needed was on my own block and…Continue Reading Building sustainable and equitable transportation systems in Toronto

Exploring electromobility in Latin America

Guest blog by Raúl Rodríguez Molina I decided to enroll in the IPP program as a continuation of the Leading Economic Growth Program, which I found extremely interesting. LEG gave me the opportunity to engage in group work methodologies, like PDIA, which somehow I have seen being implemented but not formally, not following a rigorous process….Continue Reading Exploring electromobility in Latin America