Research Newsletter

Dear Subscriber,

We are very excited to announce the launch of our newly redesigned Building State Capability blog site: buildingstatecapability.com! The BSC blog, launched in 2013, now features over 500 stories from practitioners in 73 countries around the globe who are working to solve some of the world’s most pressing and complex problems and has over half a million all-time views. The new redesign now allows you to easily search by topic or geographic region of interest, making it an invaluable resource for policy practitioners worldwide. We expect that just a few minutes of browsing will leave you hungry for more.

World Map with regions highlighted by content offerings

This blog redesign would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of BSC Research Assistants, Dana Radojevic and Lauren Truong, who spent countless hours reading, categorizing, tagging, and running analytics on our existing blogs. A special shout-out to BSC Fellow, Daniel Barjum, for his heroic efforts on redesigning the blog.

Thank you, Dana, Lauren, and Danny!

Featured Story

Traveling the World via the Building State Capability Blog

Travel the world through Dana Radojevic’s and Lauren Truong’s experience reading, categorizing, and tagging over 400 blogs from global practitioners. They were deeply inspired by how many people are using adaptive approaches to improve policy design and implementation. Learn more about their experience, process, and insights in this post.

what we are listening to

The Practice of Resolving Public Problems

In this podcast, Etambuyu Gundersen shares her Implementing Public Policy (IPP) learnings including building institutional support, managing teams, practicing strategic patience, and unpacking complex policy challenges.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

This is How to Think About and Achieve Public Policy Success

What does policy success mean? How do you structure policy work in order to achieve success? In this paper, Matt Andrews describes the "program logic of policy success" as a method by which to think about & achieve policy success.

Can PDIA Become a Regular Part of How a Government Works

Can the PDIA methodology be institutionalized as part of the way a government works? If so, what does this look like, and what is required to make it successful and sustainable? In this blog, BSC Associate Peter Harrington examines these questions and more.

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