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Dear subscriber,
Building State Capability (BSC) continues to chart new territory in 2024 by engaging with cities and states. We are equipping practitioners around the world with the tools and resources to improve the implementation of their policies and programs. In this issue, we highlight some of our latest projects, teachings, research, and resources, as well as some recent travels abroad to share BSC’s work and impact over the past decade.
We hope you enjoy learning more about our work! | | | |
PDIA for Child and Youth Safety in Helsinki
BSC is exploring how PDIA can be used in city governments. In March 2024, we began our engagement with the city of Helsinki to build its capability to address and solve complex problems, with a focus on child and youth safety. We are working with 24 city practitioners across 5 teams in our PDIA online action learning program.
Learn more about the Helsinki PDIA program. | | | |
Teaching Students to Solve Public Problems
We teach a field-lab class at the Harvard Kennedy School where students learn a research-oriented version of PDIA by working on real-world public problems – they learn by doing. This spring, eight IPP alumni worked with 33 students across Harvard on problems including transit ridership in New Orleans, re-engaging marginalized populations into the workforce in Wyoming, attracting financing to Zambia, and chronic malnutrition in Angola.
Read student learning blog posts. | | | |
Redefining Development Policy and Management
In the last decade, Matt Andrews has noticed a shift in the composition of his classrooms. Twenty years ago, his classrooms were dominated by people from ‘developing countries,’ typically poorer countries in the global south. Today, he has many more students from higher-income countries in the global north deeply interested in learning about ‘development.’ This shift has prompted him to reexamine his definition of ‘development policy and management.’
Read Matt Andrews' blog post. | | | |
On the Road
Snapshots from HKS Dean's Council and alumni events in Madrid and London. |
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On March 5th, Salimah Samji presented BSC’s work over the past decade at an alumni event held at the El Ateneo de Madrid. |
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On March 8th, Matt Andrews and Salimah Samji led a session on discovering the future at the HKS Dean’s Council in London. | | | | | |
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Salimah also moderated an alumni panel with public sector officials working in the UK. |
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Later that evening, Matt and Salimah presented BSC’s work at an alumni event held in London. | | | | | |
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Photo credit: Paul Clarke photography | | | |
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Implementing Public Policy
May 13 – November 12, 2024
Application deadline: April 15
Are you a public policymaker frustrated with the limited impact of your government’s policies? Do you see many policy ideas starting out with promise but ending up incomplete or ineffectively implemented? If so, you are not alone. Join peers from around the globe for Implementing Public Policy (IPP), a dynamic, highly engaging blended learning format offering a combination of both online and in-person learning, as well as applied action learning—where participants work on their own implementation challenge, apply their learning to their own context, reflect on their experiences, share and learn, and become a part of a global community of practice.
Apply today to join our IPP community! | | | | |
WHAT WE'RE LISTENING TO
Applying PDIA in Meghalaya, India
In this two-part podcast series, we interview Rebecca Trupin and Prateek Mittal, HKS MPAID alums, as well as their authorizer, Sampath Kumar, HKS MPA alum and Health Secretary and Development Commissioner of the government of Meghalaya, who discuss how they’ve applied PDIA to their work reducing maternal mortality in Meghalaya, India. They established the State Capability Enhancement Project (SCEP) unit as an in-house team that uses a locally developed, PDIA-inspired approach to address complex development challenges across multiple sectors ranging from health to climate change to early childhood development.
Listen to Rebecca Trupin and Prateek Mittal.
Listen to Sampath Kumar. | | | | |
LEARNING RESOURCES
PDIA Toolkit in French
Our PDIA Toolkit is now available in French, including subtitles for our videos! The toolkit is also available in English, German, Indonesian, Khmer, Portuguese, and Spanish. Stay tuned for more translations! | | | | |
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