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The Building State Capability (BSC) program at Harvard’s Center for International Development uses the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to build the capability of organizations to execute and implement.

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Matt Andrews
Lant Pritchett
Michael Woolcock
Salimah Samji
Tim McNaught

Doing Development Differently

Read the DDD Manifesto.

Recent Posts

Watch our new PDIA video! March 28, 2018
PDIA Course: Taking the classroom to the field and the field to the classroom March 6, 2018
We recently ran a PDIA course on climate change adaptation. Why? March 2, 2018
PDIA for growth in Honduras: A student project with major promise February 27, 2018
Why are there so many mass shootings in the USA? February 15, 2018
PDIA in Sri Lanka: Learning to Engage New Investors for Economic Diversification – Let’s Go Fishing! February 2, 2018
Using PDIA to tackle off-budget spending in Liberia January 29, 2018
Register now for our free PDIA online course! January 26, 2018
New connections and better performance in Nigeria’s budget process January 24, 2018
Why do we persist so long with a reform approach that does not solve problems? January 22, 2018
My PDIA Journey January 16, 2018
Getting things done: PFM reform in Africa January 11, 2018
Taking stock of our achievements in 2017 January 9, 2018
Learning to improve Sri Lanka’s business and investment climate using PDIA December 18, 2017
PDIA and PFM in Africa December 14, 2017
Building PFM Capabilities in Africa December 7, 2017
Register now for the free PDIA online course targeted to climate change adaptation! September 11, 2017
Registration for our free PDIA online course is now open! August 22, 2017
Democratizing PDIA knowledge one practitioner at a time August 21, 2017
Sequencing in the construction of State capacity: Walk before you can run July 17, 2017
How do you know when to use PDIA? May 18, 2017
How did China Create “Directed Improvisation”? May 10, 2017
Motivating teams to muddle through May 7, 2017
Building capability: the true success of PDIA April 27, 2017
Initiating action: The action-learning in PDIA April 11, 2017
Building State Capability: Review of an important (and practical) new book April 5, 2017
Dealing with a wicked hard problem in India April 3, 2017
Active and adaptive planning versus set plans in PDIA March 27, 2017
Initiating PDIA: Start by running…and then run some more March 20, 2017
PDIA and Authorizers with an itch March 14, 2017
Toward a new theory and practice of building state capacity February 26, 2017
Registration for our free PDIA online course is closed February 14, 2017
PDIA Course: Alumni are already practicing what they learned February 11, 2017
Download the new PDIA book for free January 30, 2017
Best Practice is a Pipe Dream: The AK47 vs M16 debate and development practice January 9, 2017
Thomas C. Schelling’s Contributions to Policy Analysis December 16, 2016
Doing development differently: two years on, what are we learning? December 5, 2016
State Capability Matters November 8, 2016
Finding the Fringes of Formality: Organizational Capability in Street-Level Bureaucracies in Brazil October 25, 2016
PDIA Notes 2: Learning to Learn October 5, 2016
PDIA: It doesn’t matter what you call it, it matters that you do it October 3, 2016
PDIA Notes 1: How we have PDIA’d PDIA in the last five years September 23, 2016
The “PDIA: Notes from the Real World” blog series September 23, 2016
SearchFrames for Adaptive Work (More Logical than Logframes) June 6, 2016
Book Review of Serious Whitefella Stuff: When Solutions Became the Problem in Indigenous Affairs May 4, 2016
Registration for our free PDIA online education program is closed March 27, 2016
What we’ve learned from our first free PDIA online course March 9, 2016
Doing Problem Driven Work, great new guide for governance reformers and activists February 24, 2016
Registration for the first PDIA online course is closed October 28, 2015
The New Global Goals Spell the End of Kinky Development October 20, 2015
A new era for development – the future or already reality? August 27, 2015
Busting Myths about Governance and Development August 20, 2015
Getting Best Fit in Development Projects is like buying a new suit May 18, 2015
How do money, ideas and, reforms come together to produce better development outcomes? May 5, 2015
PDIA in Indonesia: The new frontline service delivery policy May 4, 2015
Getting real about development; It is hard March 19, 2015
Making the case for case studies in development practice March 11, 2015
Rising to the challenge: Supporting PDIA in Nigeria February 17, 2015
How do you keep 100 students awake on a Friday afternoon? Fast feedback and iterative adaptation seem to work February 5, 2015
EEP/Shiree: Using adaptive programming to monitor change in Bangladesh January 15, 2015
Practicing Governance: PDIA and Basketball January 13, 2015
Tacit Knowledge: What and How? December 16, 2014
The DDD Manifesto finds a new home December 11, 2014
If you want to Do Development Differently but it sounds too hard… December 1, 2014
The PDIA Anthem November 27, 2014
Introducing The DDD Manifesto November 21, 2014
Contexts and Policy Implementation: 4 factors to think about November 12, 2014
How can we learn when we don’t understand the problem? November 6, 2014
BSC website gets a makeover November 4, 2014
Why many development initiatives have achievement gaps…and what to do about this October 30, 2014
Hirschman’s Hiding Hand and Problem Driven Change October 29, 2014
Doing Development Differently: Day 2 Summary October 24, 2014
Doing Development Differently: Day 1 Summary October 22, 2014
Doing Development Differently 2014 October 21, 2014
World Bank uses PDIA in Sierra Leone September 26, 2014
Hello Organization Man: the importance of old (and boring) administration in a new (and exciting) world September 18, 2014
What is Action Learning? September 16, 2014
Follow “Getting Things Done” at the Harvard Kennedy School September 8, 2014
The role of PDIA in fragile states September 4, 2014
BSC Paper wins ASA award August 20, 2014
This is PFM July 31, 2014
Common Core Math: when the how undermines the what July 28, 2014
World Cup Lessons: Is it the team or is it the star? July 14, 2014
Helping REAL Capacity Emerge in Rwanda using PDIA July 10, 2014
BSC video 35: Functional indicators as a way to build capacity July 1, 2014
BSC video 34: Measuring success – means or ends? June 25, 2014
BSC video 33: Multi-agent leadership in action June 19, 2014
BSC video 32: Who is the leader? June 17, 2014
BSC video 31: Crawling together in Cambodia June 12, 2014
BSC video 30: Learning by crawling June 10, 2014
BSC video 29: Iteration is reasearch in action June 5, 2014
Putting indicators to work in local governance reform June 2, 2014
BSC video 28: Problem-driven sequencing May 29, 2014
BSC video 27: Deconstructing sticky problems May 28, 2014
BSC video 26: Constructing problems that matter May 27, 2014
BSC video 25: Real problem driven reform May 23, 2014
BSC video 24: Selling solutions vs. solving problems May 21, 2014
BSC Video 23: Putting the typology framework together May 16, 2014
BSC Video 22: is there a known technology for your activity? May 14, 2014
BSC Video 21: Is your activity a service or an obligation? May 12, 2014

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