PDIA in Action

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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

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Recent Posts

PDIA Course Journey: Reform and Rebuild Nigeria July 18, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Supporting lasting Peace in Colombia July 16, 2019
The Big Stuck in State Capability and Premature Load Bearing, Some New Evidence July 5, 2019
PDIA in Sri Lanka: Learning to Develop a Sustainable Tourism Project July 1, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: AgriFinance in Kenya June 14, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Family Farming in Colombia June 11, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Unravelling premature load bearing in Nigerian public institutions June 7, 2019
PDIA in Sri Lanka: Evaluating Potential Sites for New Industrial Zones May 31, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Higher Education Access in Ecuador May 27, 2019
PDIA for Delivery Facilitation May 25, 2019
PDIA in Sri Lanka: Attracting Anchor Investors in Solar Panel Manufacturing May 24, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Lack of Youth Participation in Papua New Guinea May 22, 2019
Views of public policy implementation success and failure: Sharing my thoughts May 17, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Solving the Problem of Blood Transfusion in India May 13, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Budget Crisis in Nigeria May 3, 2019
Empowered to address the power problems in Honduras: A PDIA journey in progress May 1, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Bringing PDIA to GTAC April 27, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Littering in Bangalore City April 19, 2019
Strengthening Capabilities in City Government April 8, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Agricultural Inefficiencies in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam April 5, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Stop, Look, and Listen! Preventing Recruitment of Youth into Illicit Activities in Southern Colombia March 27, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Enhancing Women’s participation in Nigeria March 22, 2019
PDIAtoolkit now available in Spanish! March 15, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Going Back in order to go Forward (South Africa) March 13, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: CFI in Cambodia March 8, 2019
Why do public policies fail? Categorizing the challenges March 7, 2019
PDIA Course: 1,000+ alumni in 3 years March 6, 2019
10 new things we did in 2018 February 19, 2019
Can States Promote Game Changing Growth? February 5, 2019
Registration for our free PDIA online course is now closed January 25, 2019
How often do public policies really fail? A question to help you escape the policy futility trap December 20, 2018
Implementing Public Policy: Is it possible to escape the ‘Public Policy Futility’ trap? December 6, 2018
Introducing the PDIA Toolkit October 25, 2018
Bottom-up PDIA and the fishbone diagram – “a tool for life, not just for business” October 2, 2018
Announcing our newest online course: Creating Public Value September 24, 2018
Applying the ‘triple A’ framework in Pakistan and Palestine: what we learnt about implementing reform September 21, 2018
Registration for our free PDIA online course has closed August 24, 2018
PDIA Course Journey: INOVASI’s experience with PDIA to solve the wicked hard problem of basic education in Indonesia August 6, 2018
PDIA Course Journey: “There is Rubbish Everywhere!” July 16, 2018
PDIA Course Journey: Team Soedalan July 10, 2018
PDIA Anthem Part 2 July 5, 2018
Knowing through doing, and learning June 29, 2018
Account based accountability and Aid Effectiveness June 28, 2018
PDIA and Climate Change Adaptation June 4, 2018
Introducing The PDIA in Practice Series May 21, 2018
Using PDIA to Decode Growth in Honduras May 14, 2018
New Book: Navigation by Judgment May 2, 2018
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
Register for our free PDIA online course! 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

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