written by Matt Andrews There are many views on what constitutes success and failure in public policy implementation. I have been chewing on these a lot over the last couple of years as I try to make sense of the challenges of implementation and of knowing when implementation is going well or not. Here are…Continue Reading Views of public policy implementation success and failure: Sharing my thoughts
Guest blog written by S. Subash, Vimala Devi Vidya and J. Ravishankar This is a team of physicians working as District Blood Transfusion Officers for Tamil Nadu AIDS Control Society (TANSACS) living in India. They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their story. We enrolled into the…Continue Reading Solving the Problem of Blood Transfusion in India
Guest blog written by Ajani Solomon Oluwatimilehin, Jil Faith Bandele, Olusegun Michael Bandele, Victory Oluwafunmilayo Bandele. This is a multidisciplinary team with different backgrounds living in Nigeria. They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their story. The common goal, the ideas shared, the meetings, the arguments,…Continue Reading Budget Crisis in Nigeria
written by: Matt Andrews The energy sector in Honduras has a history of inefficiency. Financial and energy losses have festered for decades. Various reforms and interventions (often supported by external agents, like this World Bank project) have not solved the problem. In November 2018 a new unit in the President’s Office helped to mobilize a…Continue Reading Empowered to address the power problems in Honduras: A PDIA journey in progress
Guest blog written by Lindiwe Ndlela, Subethri Naidoo, Xavier MacMaster This team works for the Government of South Africa. They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their story. Our PDIA journey started quite innocently with us seeing it as an escape from the routine of the…Continue Reading Bringing PDIA to GTAC
Guest blog written by Sridhar Pabbisetty, Deepthi MR, Manivannan Ponniah, Salma Fahim. This team is made up of a Public Policy and Sustainable Urbanisation expert, a Public Relations Officer, Bangalore Electricity Supply company, and two civil servants. They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their story. Bangalore, the…Continue Reading Littering in Bangalore City
We work alongside other exciting initiatives at Harvard that also support state capability. One of these is the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership initiative. The following is a description of their work. Funded by a four-year $32 million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative is a collaboration between HKS, HBS, and Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government…Continue Reading Strengthening Capabilities in City Government
Guest blog written by Sakineh Roodsari, Son Truong Can (Kenny), Dinh Quoc Cong, Nguyen Uyen, Phuoc Hung Thach, and Long Ho. This team is made up of an independent group composed of 6 individuals coming from both the public and private sector. They are a multidisciplinary team of professionals who have worked in the following positions: the head of agricultural cooperatives…Continue Reading Agricultural Inefficiencies in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Guest blog written by Cameron Berkuti, Christina Schultz, Diana Acuña, Juan Pablo Castaño, Kelly Brooks, Susan Kemp This team successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their story. As development practitioners, we tend to rush in with solutions to deal with complex problems. We impose so-called best practices…Continue Reading Stop, Look, and Listen! Preventing Recruitment of Youth into Illicit Activities in Southern Colombia
Guest blog written by Adetunde Ademefun, Lois Chinedu, and Suleiman Oluwatosin This team is made up of of experienced Programme, Research and Communication Staff and Assistants who work at the Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF). They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their story. Amazingly, when we…Continue Reading Enhancing Women’s participation in Nigeria
