Guest blog written by Ahmad Aljazaeri After many years working in the for-profit private sector, I moved about two years ago into a government-owned company that was set up several year ago to be an execution arm for what used to be called the Ministry of Labor. This company grew to be a huge enabler…Continue Reading Complexity is Simple with PDIA
Guest blog written by Razan Farhan Alaqil Joining the Implementing Public Policy course started as a “cool” yet very far idea during a ministerial meeting that I was attending. But then, I went back to my team, and we all truly thought “Why not?” Within a matter of weeks, I was registered for the course…Continue Reading Adding depth and dimension to public policy projects
Guest blog written by Cesar A. Mba Abogo I signed up for the Implementing Public Policy (IPP) course after having completed Leading Economic Growth (LEG), where my understanding of the economic growth challenges facing my country, Equatorial Guinea, had been literally reset. Attending LEG was a bit of cathartic therapy for me, as I had…Continue Reading Constraints faced by MSMEs hindering economic growth in Equatorial Guinea
Guest blog written by Matthew McNaughton, Gaurav Dutt, Mandy Le Monde, Anjanay Kumar, Yashila Singh What were some key learnings from this course? (about the PDIA process through addressing your problem) As we went along the process of PDIA, we learnt a lot about the process of understanding and deconstructing the problem, working in a…Continue Reading Ecuador’s reliance on fossil fuel exports
Guest blog written by Yiming Dong, Nada ElSehemy, Daiana F. Molero, Pedro Ossa, Ena Solorzano It was the beginning of the Spring semester. One Monday in late January was our first class of PDIA in action. That day we knew that for the next seven weeks we would be working on a completely unfamiliar topic:…Continue Reading Reducing plastic pollution into the oceans before it is too late
Guest blog by Sohee Hyung, Diana del Valle, Najwa Maqbool, Mercedes Sidders, Zeineb ben Yahmed 1. What were some key learnings from this course? (about the PDIA process through addressing your problem) Over the 7-weeks sprint, our team worked on Kenyaʼ’s disaster risk management. We grouped our key takeaways and learning from the PDIA process…Continue Reading Disaster Risk Management in Kenya
Disruptive innovations need to be domestically led as even a disruptive innovation that has proved successful elsewhere will need to be modified and adapted to fit and scale in each new context. Disruptive innovation is not just another “solutionism” but the recognition that each country needs to engage in its own and owned discovery process through something like PDIA…Continue Reading Disruptive innovation is critical – but it is the opposite of what many people think it is
Guest blog written by Kanan Dubal, Jess Redmond, Ankita Panda, Arba Murati No amount of information or research can and did prepare us for the intensity and unlearning that the Problem Driven Iterative Approach (PDIA) process demands. Theoretically, we knew what the PDIA process was, but the course facilitated an opportunity to learn, implement and…Continue Reading Increasing the dynamism of the implementation of French public policies
Guest blog written by Arpita Tiwari, Diana Ly, Emma Catalfamo, Hina Musa, Katherina Hruskovec Gonzalez, Morgan Benson Early Days The first PDIA meeting for the KEYS to Success team focused on one goal: getting to know each other. Our team members came from different backgrounds, different programs within HKS, even different countries, and each of…Continue Reading Engaging youth in sustainable development in Barbados
Guest blog by Razan Alayed, Aleena Ali, Ryan S. Herman, Cecilia Liang, Krizia Lopez There were many lessons to be extracted from this course and through applying the Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to our concurrently ordinary and extraordinary problem. The issue of teacher shortage has existed for many years and is persisting in the…Continue Reading Examining Rising Teacher Shortages in the United States
