Guest blog written by Agnes Manthi, Beatrice Githinji, Constance Gichovi, Peter Onguka This is a team from Kenya working in the private sector. They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their story. The course was quite eye-opening to the dynamics in play when it comes to solving problems. Working as…Continue Reading AgriFinance in Kenya
Family Farming in Colombia
Guest blog written by Alejandro Rueda, and Sonia M This is a team from Colombia. They successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online course that ended in December 2018. This is their story. Throughout 15 weeks, our team was able to identify the causes behind our problem, to elaborate on them, to design strategies, to iterate,…Continue Reading Family Farming in Colombia
PDIA in Sri Lanka: Evaluating Potential Sites for New Industrial Zones
Guest blog written by Priyanka Samaraweera The Land Team (L team) consisted of government officials from multiple departments in the Board of Investment, Sri Lanka. This team was formed as a continuation of the Targeting Team in Phase 2 of the PDIA Sri Lanka project. The Targeting Team identified new priority sectors to diversify the economy….Continue Reading PDIA in Sri Lanka: Evaluating Potential Sites for New Industrial Zones
PDIA in Sri Lanka: Attracting Anchor Investors in Solar Panel Manufacturing
Guest blog written by Ganga Palakatiya The Investor Engagement team (I team) consisted of government officials working at the Board of Investment, Sri Lanka, to diversify the economy by engaging new anchor investors and attracting Foreign Direct Investors (FDI) in new sectors. This was part of a PDIA engagement from May 2016 to September 2017. I team…Continue Reading PDIA in Sri Lanka: Attracting Anchor Investors in Solar Panel Manufacturing
Views of public policy implementation success and failure: Sharing my thoughts
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
Bringing PDIA to GTAC
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
PDIAtoolkit now available in Spanish!
At Building State Capability, we are excited to see the PDIA methodology being tested and adapted in many countries around the world. In order to make our videos and materials more accessible, we have started translating them into other languages, most recently in Spanish. In January this year, we were approached by a former HKS student,…Continue Reading PDIAtoolkit now available in Spanish!
Going Back in order to go Forward (South Africa)
Guest blog written by Lolo Isabelle Balindile Manzini, Xolani Innocent Mthembu, Katerina Nicolaou-Manias, Godfrey F. Phetla, Vijay Valla It sounds counter-intuitive to go back over and over again in order to go forward. Going back to the drawing board to re-examine, re-assess, review, refine and revise the problem statement and its root causes is one…Continue Reading Going Back in order to go Forward (South Africa)
Why do public policies fail? Categorizing the challenges
written by Matt Andrews Governments—and other public policy organizations—undertake many different tasks, implementing a diverse set of policies and projects. Many of these policies and projects are not considered successful. My recent blog post noted that failure occurs more often than anyone would likely consider optimal. There are many reasons for policy failure, and my…Continue Reading Why do public policies fail? Categorizing the challenges
PDIA Course: 1,000+ alumni in 3 years
written by Salimah Samji Wow – I can’t believe that we’ve trained 1,112 development practitioners in 86 countries through our free PDIA online course! When we first launched this course in November 2015, we thought that training 50 people would be wildly successful. So my friends – the state of the PDIA course is strong!…Continue Reading PDIA Course: 1,000+ alumni in 3 years