Harvard Kennedy School

Introducing the PDIA Toolkit

written by Salimah Samji In 2009, we began to explore how to do PDIA in the real world. Our early engagements helped us learn, develop and refine our tools – […]

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“There is Rubbish Everywhere!”

Guest blog written by Sinit Zeru, Safiatou Diallo, Diaraye Diallo, Himideen Toure and Sophie Tidman Team Guinea successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in June 2018. This is their story.  […]

PDIA Anthem Part 2

We are delighted to share our new fun PDIA Anthem that you can add to your summer playlist! As you can see, we’ve iterated and adapted our music style from our first PDIA […]

Knowing through doing, and learning

written by Matt Andrews In 2010, Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock and I started writing about PDIA (problem driven iterative adaptation) as a potential approach to do development differently. We had […]