New Online Program: Budgeting in a Time of Crisis
Governments across the world are facing a major budgeting crisis in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This crisis raises important questions: All of these questions, and more, need to […]
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Charting a new course: Education systems after COVID-19
Written by Dzingai Mutumbuka and Marla Spivack We know that time away from school due to COVID-19 has undermined learning. Children are depending on education leaders – from high level […]
Congo Calling Rebooted
Guest blog written by Bandi Mbubi At the beginning of 2019, Harvard Kennedy School invited me to apply for its executive program in Implementing Public Policy. The letter was timely as […]
Finding Leadership Confidence
Guest blog written by Crystal Nowlan When I was first invited by my municipality’s Mayor and CAO to register for the ‘Implementing Public Policy’ (IPP) course, I was incredibly honoured […]
Early Childhood Education in Brazil
Guest blog written by Beatriz Abuchaim A big headache. It was what I felt in the introductory class at Kennedy School. It was not my first experience at Harvard. I had […]
COVID Act Two: Look beyond your borders to navigate what comes next
Guest blog written by Peter Harrington and Ben French Act One of Covid is over. In places it has been frightening, in others orderly, and everywhere completely unprecedented. As we move […]
Flexibility and Learning in Times of Global Uncertainty
Guest blog written by Nahuel Arenas-García Nahuel and his team from Costa Rica successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in May 2017. Between January and May […]
Highlighting Experience and Learning in Nigeria
Guest blog written by Fatima Kakuri Coming to Harvard to do this course, my goal was to gain advanced thought and greater insight into public policy concepts, theories, elements, types […]
Practice Makes Purpose
Guest blog written by Eleanor Sarpong, Maggie Jones, Marco Mastellari, Mohamed Hejres This blog is written by the alumni of the Implementing Public Policy Executive Education Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. Alumni […]
The Big Stuck: Updated
written by Lant Pritchett The PDIA approach to building state capability grew out of a sense among practitioner/academics (or “pracademics”) that (a) organizational capability for implementation was key to success—as, […]