State Capability Matters
written by Lant Pritchett The Social Progress Index is a new attempt to gauge human well-being across countries that does not rely on standard measures like GDP per capita but […]
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PDIA Notes 2: Learning to Learn
written by Peter Harrington After over two years of working with the government of Albania, and as we embark on a new project to work with the government of Sri […]
PDIA: It doesn’t matter what you call it, it matters that you do it
written by Matt Andrews It is nearly two years since we at the Building State Capability (BSC) program combined with various other groups across the developing world to create an […]
PDIA Notes 1: How we have PDIA’d PDIA in the last five years
written by Matt Andrews We at the Building State Capability (BSC) program have been working on PDIA experiments for five years now. These experiments have been designed to help us learn […]
The “PDIA: Notes from the Real World” blog series
written by Salimah Samji We are delighted to announce our new PDIA: Notes from the Real World blog series. In this series we will share our lessons from our PDIA experiments […]
SearchFrames for Adaptive Work (More Logical than Logframes)
written by Matt Andrews Although the benefits of experimental iteration in a PDIA process seem very apparent to most people we work with, we often hear that many development organizations […]
Book Review of Serious Whitefella Stuff: When Solutions Became the Problem in Indigenous Affairs
written by Michael Woolcock It is no secret that a long succession of Australian governments – federal and state, Liberal and Labour – have struggled to implement effective policies in […]
Registration for our free PDIA online education program is closed
Would you like a how-to guide to make your organization more effective? We recently experimented with online education as a modality to diffuse the essence of PDIA with the long […]
What we’ve learned from our first free PDIA online course
written by Salimah Samji The broad principles that underpin the PDIA approach to building state capability are gaining traction in development and policy circles. We recently experimented with an online […]
Doing Problem Driven Work, great new guide for governance reformers and activists
By Duncan Green One of the criticisms of the big picture discussion on governance that’s been going on in networks such as Doing Development Differently and “Thinking and Working Politically” […]