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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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Register for our virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis # 3 April 7, 2020
IPP Learning Journey: PDIA Helped Me Find My Way and My Voice April 7, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 13: Tolbert Nyenswah on leading through Liberia’s Ebola epidemic April 6, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 12: Course correct; it’s hard, but you must—and can—do it April 1, 2020
Listen to our second virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis March 31, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Remember the Sherpas! March 31, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 11: Reorganizing to address the crisis March 30, 2020
Listen to our first virtual discussion on Public Leadership Through Crisis March 26, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 10: Lessons from experience March 25, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Engage with the People in the Place March 24, 2020
Leading Remote Teams during Covid-19 March 23, 2020
Coronavirus and behaviour: Why leaders need better ‘risk communication’ March 23, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 9: Pursue flat, fast, and flexible organizing structures March 23, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 8: You’re not ready. No one is. Prepare to work differently March 20, 2020
Seeing Pandemics as Complex Adaptive Problems March 20, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 7: Additional resources for you March 19, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 6: Know your role, Empower others to play their roles and Stay in your lane. March 18, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 5: Good communication ideas you might consider March 17, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 4: You as a leader must be smarter than your brain March 17, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Enhancing the employability of young people in Guinea March 17, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 3: Be brave, calm, adaptive; there is no perfect crisis response March 16, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 2: Know your motivation, put communications and key people first March 16, 2020
Public Leadership Through Crisis 1: Can public leaders navigate high winds and big waves in little boats? March 15, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Finding Family through Process Improvement March 10, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Motivation Sustains Passion the PDIA way March 3, 2020
IPP Program Journey: The Legitimacy of Performance and Problem Oriented Institutional Development February 25, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Solving Complex Problems in Albany February 18, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Three Lessons of PDIA, or the Art of Public Policy February 11, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Disaster Resilience in Australia February 4, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Improving Roadside Ecology in Calgary January 28, 2020
IPP Program Journey: Improving Tax Compliance in Uganda January 21, 2020
BSC 2019: The Year in Review January 17, 2020
PDIA Course Journey: Lagos Beats Plastic December 10, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Local Problems, Local Solutions to the Indonesian Education Sector December 6, 2019
Introducing our new Practice of PDIA Podcast Series November 27, 2019
Why I Almost Left Local Government (and Why I Decided to Stay) November 22, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) November 19, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Solving the Problem of Unemployment in Jordan November 12, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Girls and Poverty in Kenya November 8, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Coordinating the National HIV Response in Nigeria October 31, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Solving the Wicked Hard Problem of Education Quality in Indonesia October 25, 2019
Building State Capability in the Western Cape, Step by Step October 23, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Lack of Student Engagement in Bastar District, India October 20, 2019
When is the next PDIA course? October 10, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: The Thrills and Bliss of Working on PPPs in Nigeria October 4, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Deconstructing ‘PDIA’ a Catchy Acronym in Development October 2, 2019
PDIA Journey: The Mozambique School Lunch Initiative September 23, 2019
The problem with ‘best practice’: using PDIA to find solutions for Indonesian education September 19, 2019
Developing Country Education Systems that Learn September 12, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Disaster Risk Management in Tanzania September 3, 2019
Premature load bearing: a fresh look at the WDR 2011 August 28, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Youth Unemployment in Nepal August 22, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Tackling the problem of basic education in remote areas of Indonesia August 15, 2019
Using the PDIA Approach for Menstrual Hygiene in Nigeria August 7, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Legal Education Reform in Ukraine July 30, 2019
PDIA Course Journey: Monitoring FONACIDE in Paraguay July 23, 2019
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

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