PDIAtoolkit now available in Spanish!
At Building State Capability, we are excited to see the PDIA methodology being tested and adapted in many countries around the world. In order to make our videos and materials more […]
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Going Back in order to go Forward (South Africa)
Guest blog written by Lolo Isabelle Balindile Manzini, Xolani Innocent Mthembu, Katerina Nicolaou-Manias, Godfrey F. Phetla, Vijay Valla It sounds counter-intuitive to go back over and over again in order […]
CFI in Cambodia
Guest blog written by Lee Henley, Vann Sokha, Jenny Ciucci, Zoey Henley This team successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their […]
Why do public policies fail? Categorizing the challenges
written by Matt Andrews Governments—and other public policy organizations—undertake many different tasks, implementing a diverse set of policies and projects. Many of these policies and projects are not considered successful. […]
PDIA Course: 1,000+ alumni in 3 years
written by Salimah Samji Wow – I can’t believe that we’ve trained 1,112 development practitioners in 86 countries through our free PDIA online course! When we first launched this course […]
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 […]
Can States Promote Game Changing Growth?
written by Matt Andrews This post relates to the working paper, ‘Who Wins in the World Economy and English Football?’ The Question: ‘Can We Get Game Changing Growth?’ Governments are […]
Registration for our free PDIA online course is now closed
We are delighted to announce that we will be offering The Practice of PDIA: Building Capability by Delivering Results once again, from February 3 – May 19, 2019. This is a 15-week course for […]
How often do public policies really fail? A question to help you escape the policy futility trap
written by Matt Andrews Last week I blogged about the ‘public policy futility trap’ in which countries get stuck when a negative feedback loop institutionalizes itself in the public policy […]
Implementing Public Policy: Is it possible to escape the ‘Public Policy Futility’ trap?
written by Matt Andrews Polls suggest that governments across the world face high levels of citizen dissatisfaction, and low levels of citizen trust. The 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer found, for […]