Guest blog written by Dana Radojević and Lauren Truong Four months ago, we set off on a journey across the world – though not in the way you might expect. You see… we weren’t traversing the jungles of Peru, eating street food in Thailand, or admiring the ancient ruins of Greece. Nor were we running…Continue Reading Traveling the World via the Building State Capability Blog
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
Guest blog by Sohee Hyung, Diana del Valle, Najwa Maqbool, Mercedes Sidders, Zeineb ben Yahmed 1. What were some key learnings from this course? (about the PDIA process through addressing your problem) Over the 7-weeks sprint, our team worked on Kenyaʼ’s disaster risk management. We grouped our key takeaways and learning from the PDIA process…Continue Reading Disaster Risk Management in Kenya
Guest blog written by Kanan Dubal, Jess Redmond, Ankita Panda, Arba Murati No amount of information or research can and did prepare us for the intensity and unlearning that the Problem Driven Iterative Approach (PDIA) process demands. Theoretically, we knew what the PDIA process was, but the course facilitated an opportunity to learn, implement and…Continue Reading Increasing the dynamism of the implementation of French public policies
Guest blog written by Arpita Tiwari, Diana Ly, Emma Catalfamo, Hina Musa, Katherina Hruskovec Gonzalez, Morgan Benson Early Days The first PDIA meeting for the KEYS to Success team focused on one goal: getting to know each other. Our team members came from different backgrounds, different programs within HKS, even different countries, and each of…Continue Reading Engaging youth in sustainable development in Barbados
Guest blog by Razan Alayed, Aleena Ali, Ryan S. Herman, Cecilia Liang, Krizia Lopez There were many lessons to be extracted from this course and through applying the Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to our concurrently ordinary and extraordinary problem. The issue of teacher shortage has existed for many years and is persisting in the…Continue Reading Examining Rising Teacher Shortages in the United States
Guest blog by Nicah Santos, Ivy Wang, Rachel Diaz, and Malaika Toyo Six weeks ago, we came together because we wanted hands-on experience with a new approach to getting things done in development: PDIA. We were from all four corners of the world and campus – Filipino, Nigerian, Latin-American, and Chinese-Canadian, HKS and HGSE. We…Continue Reading Civic Education and Youth Political Engagement in Peru
Guest blog written by Artem Shaipov After completing the Implementing Public Policy Program and joining the IPP Community of Practice, I was thrilled to receive an invitation to work with a group of master students taking a class at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) titled, “Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) in Action: Development through facilitated…Continue Reading Coupling Action Learning and International Development
