Guest blog written by Fadila Leturcq “Le savoir est une arme” (“Knowledge is a weapon” in English) is a recurring punchline in French rap lyrics and one that resonates with me when I take the
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Guest blog by Nicah Santos, Ivy Wang, Rachel Diaz, and Malaika Toyo Six weeks ago, we came together because we wanted hands-on
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Institutional change is part of the theory of change of PDIA – scaling through the diffusion of new ways of thinking and
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written by Salimah Samji In August 2021, we began an engagement with Instituto Sonho Grande (ISG) in Brazil to build the capability of public
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written by Matt Andrews We at the Building State Capability program (BSC) have been working directly with governments for over a decade
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written by Matt Andrews Last week I blogged about the ‘public policy futility trap’ in which countries get stuck when a negative
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Guest blog written by Albert Pijuan and David Hoole 86 development practitioners at OPML have successfully completed the 15-week Practice of PDIA online
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written by Matt Andrews, Mark Moore, Lant Pritchett and Salimah Samji This is a crowdsourcing effort to understand why … and to
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Matt Andrews teaches a course entitled “Getting Things Done: Management in the Development Context,” at the Harvard Kennedy School. He often gets
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We are proud to announce that Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation co-authored by Matt
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