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 […]
Center for International Development
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 […]
Why are there so many mass shootings in the USA?
written by Matt Andrews, Mark Moore, Lant Pritchett and Salimah Samji This is a crowdsourcing effort to understand why … and to help foster a common response. Many governments lack […]
PDIA in Sri Lanka: Learning to Engage New Investors for Economic Diversification – Let’s Go Fishing!
written by Anisha Poobalan Meet the Investment Promotions team, a group of Sri Lankan government officials from various departments, experts in differing fields, and all novices at the daunting task […]
Using PDIA to tackle off-budget spending in Liberia
Guest blog by Alieu Fuad Nyei Like many other African countries, budget execution is a huge challenge in Liberia. Last fiscal year (July 2016 to June 2017), off-budget spending was […]