written by Matt Andrews, co-Founding Faculty of the Building State Capability Program We at the Building State Capability (BSC) program have been working on PDIA experiments for five years now. These experiments have been designed to
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written by Salimah Samji Since we published The DDD Manifesto on November 21, it has been viewed over 5,000 times all around
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written by Matt Andrews Arnaldo Pellini recently wrote an interesting personal blog post about the Doing Development Differently workshop and manifesto. He
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Need help decoding the acronym PDIA? Check out the PDIA anthem. This Anthem uses the Instrumental from Mos Def – Mathematics. It
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written by Salimah Samji International development experts often tell us that they cannot do PDIA because the project processes within their organizations
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written by Matt Andrews Action learning is a key part of PDIA. It is “a hybrid technique that allows participants to use
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written by Salimah Samji Without the how, the what remains fiction — often compelling fiction. Development is littered with examples of projects/reforms
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Everyone agrees that building the rule of law is important. But building the capability of a justice system is a long and
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In development, external best practice is almost always used as a solution. In reality, however, finding solutions to tough problems is not
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Iteration does not take a thousand years. You can immediately begin the process of learning through iteration and adaptation, after you define
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