Organizations have multiple objectives. In public organizations, the search for legitimacy often clashes with the search for functionality. This is mainly because rewards are geared around form and not function. In this video, Matt Andrews,
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The design space of actual development projects is complex, granular, and nuanced. In this video, Lant Pritchett, uses a simple example of
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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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written by Lant Pritchett Nina Munk’s new book The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty is a great read.
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Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) is an approach we have developed to help escape capability traps. PDIA rests on four core principles:
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In the systems we operate within, who identifies problems? who identifies solutions? and how do these people mobilize the ones who have
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The process of building state capability involves people, who are the ultimate complex phenomena; embedded within organizations, which are complex; and organizations
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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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Policy implementation requires agents of organizations who are responsible for implementation, to do the right thing, at the right time, and in
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