written by Salimah Samji. Anyone who has ever worked in India knows how hard it is to implement programs. The sheer size of the country makes it impossible for anyone but the government, who is
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Maintaining your support through a change process is often a challenging task which requires time and effort. In this video, Matt Andrews,
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Organizations have multiple objectives. In public organizations, the search for legitimacy often clashes with the search for functionality. This is mainly because
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written by Matt Andrews Governments often face unenviable tasks that border on the impossible, given particularly thorny political and administrative complexities. Commentators
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Problems are key to driving change. In this video, Matt Andrews, uses two examples about HIV in Pakistan, to illustrate how constructing
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It is important when thinking about building state capability, to first ask, what is the “type of problem” you are trying to
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Happy New Year! Building State Capability is the Center for International Development at Harvard University’s newest program. Since the inception, the team
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written by Salimah Samji The knee jerk reaction to building capacity is to organize more training workshops. These are taught by experts
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written by Salimah Samji In a recent paper entitled, Behavioral Economics and Public Sector Reform: An Accidental Experiment and Lessons from Cameroon,
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