Harvard Kennedy School

Building PFM Capabilities in Africa

written by Tim McNaught For the past 30 years, governments across Africa have been implementing public financial management (PFM) reforms with mixed results. While budgets, laws and processes have improved, they […]

Register for our free PDIA online course!

written by Salimah Samji <update>: Registration is currently closed for this course. We are delighted to announce that we will be offering The Practice of PDIA: Building Capability by Delivering Results once […]

How do you know when to use PDIA?

written by Salimah Samji We often get asked the question “why do you need to use PDIA for a problem that we already know how to solve?” The answer is […]

A silhouette of 5 people with arms raised up at the top of a mountain

Motivating teams to muddle through

written by Anisha Poobalan In theory, PDIA seemed like the most logical, straightforward way to go about solving a problem. A team is formed, they deconstruct the identified problem and […]

Building capability: the true success of PDIA

written by Anisha Poobalan The PDIA team has been working in Sri Lanka for the past six months with five talented and motivated government teams. This work is challenging and […]