Knowing through doing, and learning
written by Matt Andrews In 2010, Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and I started writing about PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation) as a potential approach to do development differently. We had […]
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Account based accountability and Aid Effectiveness
written by Lant Pritchett Improving “accountability” has been a popular agenda for improving public sector performance for some time, and I have promoted accountability as a key to effectiveness myself. […]
PDIA and Climate Change Adaptation
written by Tim O’Brien and Salimah Samji We launched a pilot course entitled “The Practice of PDIA: Adapting to Climate Change,” in September 2017. This was our first attempt at […]
Introducing The PDIA in Practice Series
written by Matt Andrews We have a small team in Pretoria this week for the second year of PDIA work with the Collaborative African Budget Initiative (CABRI). The work with […]
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 […]
New Book: Navigation by Judgment
We hosted Dan Honig a few weeks ago to discuss his new book published by Oxford University Press. Here are some highlights.
Watch our new PDIA video!
We have been told many times that the acronym PDIA is clunky and that it doesn’t easily roll off the tongue. Matt Andrews’ response to that has been, “it doesn’t […]
PDIA Course: Taking the classroom to the field and the field to the classroom
written by Salimah Samji When we launched the first PDIA online course in November 2015, we had a burning question: Is it possible to teach PDIA in an online environment? […]
We recently ran a PDIA course on climate change adaptation. Why?
written by Tim O’Brien Leader of farming cooperative in central Sri Lanka that diversified into ginger production as drought increasingly hurt rice cultivation. If you live in a developed country, […]
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 […]