Guest blog written by Judy Farvolden I am passionate about vibrant, equitable, sustainable urban life. My journey began in Paris when, as a 17-year-old living for a year in the City of Light, I wondered at the difference between living in a place where every day-to-day thing I needed was on my own block and…Continue Reading Building sustainable and equitable transportation systems in Toronto
Guest blog written by Mamadou Mouctar Diallo The thousands of miles that separate Guinea from the United States and COVID 19 were overcome by technology to enable us to attend this public policy implementation training at the prestigious Harvard Kennedy School. When the opening bell rang in June, I knew I was about to embark…Continue Reading IPP: A master key to close problem doors and open solution doors for a better world
Guest blog written by Laura Michelle Delgado Van Demen A year after the COVID-19 pandemic started, the perception that our team working on the establishment of a Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) system in Sierra Leone, was standing alone in front of a very massive reform had increased. We were very frustrated since each…Continue Reading Civil Registration in Sierra Leone: A hero won’t save the day, applying PDIA might
Guest blog written by Rholyn Barnhart I was born in a very small town in the Philippines. Majority of the source of income in our town relates to fishing and trading goods. My family is one of the many families who wanted to go out of our current state of life – working just to…Continue Reading Developing deeper learning competencies in the United States
Guest blog written by Alexandra Ames One of the greatest concerns of public servants in Peru is to achieve effective public policies, that is, that all the effort and resources invested become real results for the benefit of the people. But being involved in the policy-making process is not a simple task, we must recognize…Continue Reading Implementing effective public policies in Peru
Guest blog written by Ahmad Aljazaeri After many years working in the for-profit private sector, I moved about two years ago into a government-owned company that was set up several year ago to be an execution arm for what used to be called the Ministry of Labor. This company grew to be a huge enabler…Continue Reading Complexity is Simple with PDIA
Guest blog written by Razan Farhan Alaqil Joining the Implementing Public Policy course started as a “cool” yet very far idea during a ministerial meeting that I was attending. But then, I went back to my team, and we all truly thought “Why not?” Within a matter of weeks, I was registered for the course…Continue Reading Adding depth and dimension to public policy projects
Guest blog written by Cesar A. Mba Abogo I signed up for the Implementing Public Policy (IPP) course after having completed Leading Economic Growth (LEG), where my understanding of the economic growth challenges facing my country, Equatorial Guinea, had been literally reset. Attending LEG was a bit of cathartic therapy for me, as I had…Continue Reading Constraints faced by MSMEs hindering economic growth in Equatorial Guinea
Guest blog written by Matthew McNaughton, Gaurav Dutt, Mandy Le Monde, Anjanay Kumar, Yashila Singh What were some key learnings from this course? (about the PDIA process through addressing your problem) As we went along the process of PDIA, we learnt a lot about the process of understanding and deconstructing the problem, working in a…Continue Reading Ecuador’s reliance on fossil fuel exports
Guest blog written by Yiming Dong, Nada ElSehemy, Daiana F. Molero, Pedro Ossa, Ena Solorzano It was the beginning of the Spring semester. One Monday in late January was our first class of PDIA in action. That day we knew that for the next seven weeks we would be working on a completely unfamiliar topic:…Continue Reading Reducing plastic pollution into the oceans before it is too late
