April 18 – 19, 2017 | Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker
Matt Andrews, Faculty Director, Building State Capability, Edward S. Mason Senior Lecturer in International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
Summary
Matt Andrews, leads an interactive session on Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA). Professor Andrews explains that PDIA is a process innovation that Building State Capability has been using within many countries to help governments find and fit solutions to complex problems that are specific to local context. He walks through an example of this process in Sri Lanka, describing in detail how a team in the government has been building the capabilities and the authority to address a binding constraint to economic growth through action and learning by doing.