Year in Review

BSC Team

BSC 2025: Year in Review

written by Salimah Samji At Building State Capability (BSC) we resolve public problems with purpose. We equip teams of practitioners around the world with the tools and resources to improve […]

BSC Team

BSC 2024: Year in Review

written by Salimah Samji At Building State Capability (BSC) we resolve public problems with purpose. The increasingly complex, interdependent, and uncertain world we live in requires more flexible and adaptive […]

BSC Team photo: Anisha Poobalan, Matt Andrews, Salimah Samji, Daniel Barjum, and Kathryn Lang

BSC 2023: The Year in Review

written by Salimah Samji Building State Capability (BSC) resolves public problems with purpose. We have developed a step-by-step approach called Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA), a dynamic process with tight […]

BSC group photo outside in front of a restaurant

BSC 2022: The Year in Review

written by Salimah Samji Building State Capability (BSC) empowers public organizations to find local solutions to local problems and to improve the implementation of their policies and programs. BSC has […]

BSC 2020: The Year in Review

written by Salimah Samji 2020 was a challenging year. The Covid-19 pandemic and other crises highlighted the failures of governance and the large economic disparities that exist around the globe. The need to build public sector capability to meet these increasingly […]

PFM 2019 group photo

BSC 2019: The Year in Review

written by Salimah Samji Reflection is a key part of the PDIA iteration process and as I have done in previous years (2017 & 2018) here’s a look back at what […]

10 new things we did in 2018

written by Salimah Samji It’s February and 2018 feels like a long time ago! Last year, I wrote my first annual stock taking blog and I’ve been meaning to write […]

Matt in Sri Lanka

Taking stock of our achievements in 2017

written by Salimah Samji The Building State Capability (BSC) program had a very busy 2017. We are a small team of doers who are constantly testing, learning, reflecting, and adapting our […]