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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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Recent Posts

  • Flexibility and Learning in Times of Global Uncertainty June 19, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: Highlighting Experience and Learning June 17, 2020
  • Practice Makes Purpose June 10, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: IT Project for a Pay Transparency Initiative June 9, 2020
  • The Big Stuck: Updated June 3, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: Creating a Workplace Culture of Continuous Learners and Self-Starters June 2, 2020
  • Register for our Implementing Public Policy (online) Program May 20, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: Lost in Authorization May 19, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: Changing the Way we do Business, through Data Sharing May 14, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: PDIA is a Journey about How to Engage May 5, 2020
  • Listen to our sixth virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis April 28, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: PDIA Application in the Private Sector April 27, 2020
  • Growth after the Coronavirus: Thoughts and Questions April 22, 2020
  • Listen to our fifth virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis April 21, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: Jumping the Wall April 21, 2020
  • COVID-19: Planning for Tomorrow’s Problems Today April 17, 2020
  • Public Leadership Through Crisis 19: How do political leaders commonly structure their roles? April 17, 2020
  • Public Leadership Through Crisis 18: Who are Political Leaders and What is their Role? April 16, 2020
  • Public Leadership Through crisis 17: ‘Keep an eye’ on how your crisis response impacts Public Value April 14, 2020
  • IPP Program Journey: Don’t be Afraid to Change April 14, 2020
  • Listen to our fourth virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis April 13, 2020
  • Public Leadership Through Crisis 16: Empowering work and learning, even if things seem chaotic April 13, 2020
  • Register for our new Executive Education program: Leading Economic Growth (online) April 10, 2020
  • Public Leadership Through Crisis 15: The COVID-19 Crisis in Bahrain April 9, 2020
  • Public Leadership Through Crisis 14: Lessons on Crisis Communication from Liberia’s Ebola epidemic April 8, 2020
  • Listen to our third virtual discussion on Leadership Through Crisis 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

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