Development policy and management is about policy work governments undertake to improve or discover what’s new … how do we do that is the question? bsc.hks.harvard.edu/2024/02/09/red…

Redefining development policy and management: It is less about countries or geographically located people and more about the challenges policy actors face – in all countries and geographies – that require an element of change for novelty and improvement. bsc.hks.harvard.edu/2024/02/09/red…

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Harvard's Growth Lab Building State Capability

Nic Spaull Here's my post on Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation and why it's a better way to improve schools improvingteaching.co.uk/2021/03/14/bet…

I've suggested Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation offers a better route to school improvement.

This great case Building State Capability study shows how Funda Wande's programme design and authorisation approach followed PDIA principles.

A few highlights below:

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'In the policy world, giant leaps typically lead to bigger failures. Taking smaller leaps, or iterative steps, is a more nuanced and strategic approach to policy implementation.'

Guest blog by Lucas Martinez, IPP '22
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'I realized I could maximize the techniques we learned on campus with the challenges we had at the Foundation; Promoting child development by improving care quality in public & private institutions.'

Guest blog by Miriam Gastélum Aispuro, IPP '22

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'At the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF), we implemented PDIA and reduced the timeframe for granting loans to MSMEs & found solutions to improve the turnaround time for employability training.'

Guest blog by Tejumola Abake Abisoye, IPP '22

'If we manage to improve education, we can improve people’s quality of life and generate a more robust and positive socioeconomic dynamic.'

Guest blog by ANTONIO SAAD 🇵🇦 IPP '22

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📢Read the latest Education Next article by Jishnu Das on how market dynamics affect the performance of public and private schools:

No School Stands Alone educationnext.org/no-school-stan…

'Being able to trust people to do the task at hand and trust that they will do it well, is a key to success...The more I trust in delegation, the easier it makes my time management. '

Guest blog by Eileen Cipriani, IPP '22

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'Everyone works at their best when their own values are aligned with the policy goals, with teams that grow bigger and become more committed and motivated along the way.'

Guest blog by Agustín I. Filippo, IPP '22

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'We are here because we care about public problems. Because we don’t have answers but learn a proposal to address complex problems named PDIA (Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation).'

Guest blog by Tomas Gonzalez, IPP '22

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Last call to apply for our Implementing Public Policy HKS Executive Education program! This program provides the opportunity to work on your policy implementation challenge with guidance from Faculty Chair Matt Andrews and global peers. Apply by May 5! zurl.co/Yeuo

🌠 #MayThe4thBeWithYou For this week's #ThrowbackThursday , we have a 2006 article on how the 'hero dependency' storyline for development is problematic. More about this argument by Matt Andrews (Matt Andrews) in 'Going Beyond Heroic Leaders in Development': onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Learning and discovery oriented industrial policy is possible, even in the toughest contexts bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/websites.harva…

Struggling to implement public policy? This course is for you …hks.harvard.edu/educational-pr…

Struggling to implement public policy? This course is for you …hks.harvard.edu/educational-pr…

Join us at the executive education program focused on implementing public policy hks.harvard.edu/educational-pr…