Building State Capability Podcasts

This podcast series shares research, tools, strategies, and tactics to build the capability of public organizations to implement policies and programs.

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April 25, 2022

Helping kids to read for meaning and calculate with confidence in South Africa

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January 27, 2022

Getting Real about Unknowns in Complex Policy Work: A Conversation with Matt Andrews

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January 14, 2022

Pivoting Education Systems in a Crisis – Lessons from Woburn, MA Public Schools

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April 28, 2021

Building Communities of Practice: A Conversation with ELGL’s Kirsten Wyatt

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March 5, 2021

Making Space for Purpose-Driven Work in Bureaucracies

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February 23, 2021

Juba Peace Talks in Uganda & the Story of Joseph Kony

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March 20, 2020

Managing Difficult Conversations Effectively

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January 17, 2020

Building Effective Teams

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March 1, 2019

PDIA in Action: Challenges & Experiences

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February 9, 2019

Public Policy Failure

A collapsed building

December 12, 2018

Overcoming the Global Despondency Trap: Strengthening Corporate Accountability in Supply Chains

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November 1, 2018

Introducing the PDIA Toolkit

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November 1, 2018

Politicizing Inequality: The Power of Ideas

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June 25, 2018

Designing a Problem-Driven Donor-Funded Project in Mozambique

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June 6, 2018

Informing Budget Reform in Mozambique: The Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation Approach

A shipyard

March 1, 2018

Doing Development Differently