PDIA and PFM in Africa
written by Salimah Samji We just held our final workshop for the Building PFM Capabilities in Africa Program, in collaboration with CABRI, in Johannesburg from December 11-13, 2017. Teams from […]
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Building PFM Capabilities in Africa
written by Tim McNaught For the past 30 years, governments across Africa have been implementing public financial management (PFM) reforms with mixed results. While budgets, laws and processes have improved, they […]
Register now for the free PDIA online course targeted to climate change adaptation!
<update>: Registration is currently closed for this course. We are delighted to announce that we will be offering The Practice of PDIA: Adapting to Climate Change, from September 24 – December 17, 2017.
Register for our free PDIA online course!
written by Salimah Samji <update>: Registration is currently closed for this course. We are delighted to announce that we will be offering The Practice of PDIA: Building Capability by Delivering Results once […]
Democratizing PDIA knowledge one practitioner at a time
written by Salimah Samji We now have 569 development practitioners in 64 countries who have successfully completed a version of our free PDIA course. Since we began our online journey […]
Sequencing in the construction of State capacity: Walk before you can run
Guest blog by Ajay Shah In thinking about the State, there are two useful principles: We should embark on things that we can do (i.e. don’t take on things that […]
How do you know when to use PDIA?
written by Salimah Samji We often get asked the question “why do you need to use PDIA for a problem that we already know how to solve?” The answer is […]
How did China Create “Directed Improvisation”?
written by Lant Pritchett Yuen-Yuen Ang, a Professor of Political Science at University of Michigan came to speak at Harvard the other day and I was lucky enough to hear […]
Motivating teams to muddle through
written by Anisha Poobalan In theory, PDIA seemed like the most logical, straightforward way to go about solving a problem. A team is formed, they deconstruct the identified problem and […]
Building capability: the true success of PDIA
written by Anisha Poobalan The PDIA team has been working in Sri Lanka for the past six months with five talented and motivated government teams. This work is challenging and […]