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Dec 19, 2022

What has BSC been up to this year? Here are few highlights from 2022: 🌍 525 global practitioners trained 📄 7 papers + 3 cases published 🎙️ 18 podcasts recorded 📝 147 blogs posted Read more about our 2022 activities & what to look forward to in 2023!

BSC 2022: The Year in Review - Building State Capability

written by Salimah Samji Building State Capability (BSC) empowers public organizations to find local solutions to local problems and to improve the implementation of their policies and programs. BSC...

Feb 3

"The program has educated and motivated me to design a new ‘pilot program’ model under this framework and PDIA approach..." Guest Blog by Michelle Sidebottom, LEG ’22 , LEG ’22 zcu.io/iKtB ⏳ MON, FEB 6 is the last day to Apply to LEG: zcu.io/r5t6

Feb 2

🚨 Reminder: Upcoming BSC book talk ▶️ "They Eat our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, & Survival in Urban Nigeria" with

@DanielAgbiboa

, Assistant Professor at

📅 Mon. Feb 6, 12pm ET 📍 Malkin & Zoom Register in advance: zcu.io/CfHt

Feb 1

"I never expected to amplify my current set of skills and challenge my previous thinking towards economic growth in the way I did in just 10 weeks’ time. " Guest blog by Alex Sanchiz Vincente, LEG ’22 zcu.io/N6kD Apply to LEG By Feb 6! zcu.io/r5t6

Jan 30

"This course has been what you’d call a game-changer in the way I perceive economic growth challenges and the tools required to address key challenges." Guest blog by Olivier Stoullig, LEG '22 zcu.io/HzJ8 Apply to LEG by February 6: zcu.io/r5t6

Jan 30

📢 Join next week for a BSC book talk with

@DanielAgbiboa

, Assistant Professor of African & African American Studies at

"They Eat our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, & Survival in Urban Nigeria" 📅 Feb 6, 12pm ET 📍 Malkin & Zoom ✅ Register: zcu.io/CfHt

Jan 27

"The step-by-step approach to Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) has become a useful tool to getting whatever challenge I am faced with underway." Guest Blog by Warner Priest, LEG '22 Apply to LEG by February 6: zcu.io/r5t6

Brings together experts and practitioners of economic development to diagnose municipal, regional, or national economies and develop new investment promotion strategies for optimal growth.

HKS Executive Education

@HKSExecEd

Jan 26

Is stimulating growth your economic priority? Are you interested in policy implementation, structural transformation and the strategies of economic growth? Apply for Leading Economic Growth today ow.ly/R56550MAIab

hks.harvard.edu

Leading Economic Growth

Jan 25

"Every week we had to adjust the definition of our economic growth challenges, it turned to be a continuous learning process." Guest Blog by Abdi Aguirre, LEG '22 zcu.io/C2fa Apply to LEG by February 6: zcu.io/r5t6

Jan 23

"Growing 'collective knowhow' isn’t about individuals knowing more, rather individuals knowing different and working collectively." Guest Blog by Phillipa Kirby, LEG '22 zcu.io/EcoE Apply to LEG by February 6: zcu.io/r5t6

Jan 20

"Using the per capita GDP indicator alone as an indicator to measure the extent of growth is not effective in some cases. " Guest Blog by Iman Kharabshen LEG '22 zcu.io/cBni Apply to LEG by February 6: zcu.io/r5t6

UNDP SDG Integration

@SDGintegration

Jan 19

Try, Learn, Iterate, Adapt.

Harvard CID and Building State Capability

’s #PDIAToolkit provides step-by-step guidance📕 to break down development challenges into root causes & identify possible solutions within local contexts. Don't wait any longer, discover this dynamic toolkit: 🧰 sdgintegration.undp.org/problem-driven

Jan 18

"To have a truly prosperous region, we need to broaden the sense of ‘Us’ to embrace diversity and harness the knowhow that exists in the new, different, and marginalized sectors of our population." Guest Blog by Pippa Hepburn, LEG ’22 zcu.io/fG1A

Brings together experts and practitioners of economic development to diagnose municipal, regional, or national economies and develop new investment promotion strategies for optimal growth.

Jan 17

Interested in learning more about Leading Economic Growth? Listen to Faculty Chairs

@ricardo_hausman

and

@governwell

describe the 10 week online

@HKSExecEd

program ⏩ zcu.io/MeLw ✅ Apply by Feb. 6!

hks.harvard.edu

Leading Economic Growth

Jan 17

"It has become evident to me that building sustainable growth requires putting the inclusion agenda at the core. " Guest blog by Meleket Denbu, LEG ’22 zcu.io/4TOd

Jan 11

"The PDIA approach offers an innovative angle of analysis of growth challenges by focusing more on the nature of problems than on ready-made solutions." Guest blog by Racine Ba, LEG '22 ⏩ zcu.io/oZtf

Jan 9

"Complexity and diversity are vital components for developing successful growth strategies." Guest blog by Farid Amirov, LEG '22: zcu.io/YtDL 👉 Apply today for Leading Economic Growth: zcu.io/taVA 📅 Feb. 6 application deadline

Jan 5

"A coherent, well established, coordinated, and interconnected team is a key to success in implementing the changes needed to solve the problem." Guest blog by Rami Alhadid, LEG '22 ⏩ zcu.io/Reet

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and

Congrats, Erdem! For those curious about our "Leading Economic Growth"

@HKSExecEd

course: 💻growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/teaching Our colleagues

have a blog series written by LEG alumni, detailing their learning journeys: 📔buildingstatecapability.com/?s=LEG

Dec 21, 2022

"What I’ve learned is not to take the green light for granted and to constantly check if the authorizers are still backing your project or not." Guest blog by Ana Iorga, IPP 2021 ⏩ zcu.io/4qDD #BuildingStateCapability #ImplementingPublicPolicy #HKS #HarvardBSC

Dec 20, 2022

The City of Mannheim generously offered to translate our PDIA Toolkit, including subtitles for our videos, into German after learning about PDIA in the

@BHcityleaders

Cross Boundary Collaboration program. Check out the newly translated German toolkit! zurl.co/XEJu

Mannheim

Harvard Kennedy School on LinkedIn: Rethinking international development strategy—and hearing...

Harvard CID

@HarvardCID

Dec 19, 2022

Does development strategy need a wholesale rethink? #CIDExperts weigh-in during the

@Kennedy_School

Dean's Discussion, "Rethinking international development strategy—and hearing echoes of global challenges in the United States"

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HKS's Matt Andrews, Rema Hanna, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja discuss major changes in strategies to foster global growth in a recent Dean's Discussion…

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BSC Seminar | From Elections to Governing: Getting Beyond Politics to...

Dec 19, 2022

ICYMI: BSC book talk featuring Steve Kadish, co-author of "Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done" & former first Chief of Staff for Governor Baker Watch recording here:

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In government, the focus is often on policy, legislative wins, and budget dollars. However, the key components of what makes government work are successful e...

Harvard Kennedy School

@Kennedy_School

Dec 16, 2022

Congratulations,

President-elect Claudine Gay!

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Harvard University

Dec 15, 2022

“With the strength of this extraordinary institution behind us, we enter a moment of possibility, one that calls for deeper collaboration across the University, across all of our remarkable Schools.” - President-elect Claudine Gay Learn more: hrvd.me/SearchUpdate22t

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Dec 13, 2022

"Going forward, every bill that comes my way as a legislator in Trinidad & Tobago will be scrutinized to the best of my ability and time using the PDIA process." Guest blog by Amrita Deonarine, IPP 2021 ⏩ zcu.io/vEr9 #BuildingStateCapability #HKS #PDIA #IPPOnline

Goals and realities: What World Cup performances can teach us about development in African countries

Harvard Kennedy School

@Kennedy_School

Dec 12, 2022

HKS's

@governwell

says the reasons why African nations haven’t done better in the World Cup have a lot in common with why much of the continent’s economic promise has also gone unfulfilled #HKSPolicyCast

hks.harvard.edu

buildingstatecapability.com

Dec 12, 2022

What do capabilities have to do with #Morocco making it to the #WorldCup2022 semi-finals? Find out what

thinks!

Morocco’s Semi-Final Soccer Capabilities - Building State Capability

written by Matt Andrews A preamble to my views on Morocco Earlier this year I wrote a paper and a blog on why African countries struggle to win in global soccer. I argued that teams from these...

Dec 12, 2022

Interested in staying up-to-date with the latest Building State Capability news and research? 📩 Sign up for the BSC newsletter! Our end of year newsletter is scheduled to release this week! Sign up here ⏩ zcu.io/8gpL

Government by ‘Consultant’ can hollow out the State

Rohan Sandhu

@Rohan_Sandhu

Dec 11, 2022

Excellent piece - per usual - from

@AiyarYamini

on a topic I’ve been studying closely: “the consultant is only effective in a capable State, and often less than useful in a disenchanted State that has stopped believing in its own capacity”

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One of the great perks of a career as a policy wonk is that you get a ringside view of government. From the unventilated, dusty rooms of the Panchayat secretariats in villages to the corridors of

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Dec 9, 2022

"PDIA is not about solving the problem that you believe you’re setting out to solve. It is about better understanding the problem’s components to tackle them in smaller doses." Guest blog by Chelsea Hayman, IPP 2021 ⏩ zcu.io/WVld #BuildingStateCapability

BSC Seminar | Agile Responses to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Crisis:...

Dec 7, 2022

ICYMI: BSC seminar featuring Rita Vinokur, Zhenya Leonov, Olga Yulikova, & Sasha Segal on leveraging the power of cell phones to gather resources, organize people, & mobilize hope in response to the Ukrainian #humanitarian crisis. #Ukraine Watch here:

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Nobody was really prepared for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine … especially the refugees. The traditional sources of help – NGOs and government agencies – were ...

Dec 6, 2022

Thank you to Steve Kadish, co-author of "Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done" and former first Chief of Staff for Governor Baker, for joining us last week for an engaging & insightful book talk. Stay tuned for the session recording available next week!

Dec 5, 2022

"At some moments, I had to wait long hours for a scheduled meeting at someone’s convenience. All these experiences improved my patience, perseverance, and tolerance." Guest blog by Abubakar Shuaibu, IPP 2021 ⏩ zcu.io/EEUi #BuildingStateCapability #Nigeria #IPP

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Nov 29, 2022

"In the increasingly complex & uncertain world we live in, we need more practical tools focused on how to drive real change." Read this blog to learn more about "Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done" by Charlie Baker & Steve Kadish:

Practicing the Art of Implementation - Building State Capability

written by Salimah Samji Implementation is often the Achilles heel of good policy. Yet there is dearth of practical tools focused on how you get things done. You can have the best policy, the money,...

Nov 28, 2022

Reminder: Upcoming BSC book talk with Steve Kadish, co-author of "Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done" and former First Chief of Staff for MA Governor Charlie Baker Moderator: Salimah Samji 📅 Wed, Nov 30, 12pm ET RSVP: zcu.io/6Y41

Can an African team win the World Cup? New football study crunches the numbers

Harvard CID

@HarvardCID

Nov 26, 2022

"Can an African team win the World Cup?" Matt Andrews wants to know!⚽️

@Governwell

crunches the numbers in

@ConversationUS

: bit.ly/3hWM4Zr Did he get it right? Sound off ⬇️

A win is possible - but only in 2026 or 2030 and only if African teams get to play more high level internationals more regularly.

Nov 22, 2022

📢 Join us next week for a BSC book talk with Steve Kadish, co-author of "Results: Getting Beyond Politics to Get Important Work Done" to learn a methodology to move from identifying problems to achieving results. 📅 Nov 30, 12pm ET RSVP: zcu.io/6Y41

Nov 22, 2022

Thank you to Rita Vinokur, Zhenya Leonov, Olga Yulikova, Sasha Yulikova, and our online and in-person attendees for last week’s discussion on agile responses to the Ukrainian humanitarian crisis. If you missed the session, we will have the recording posted in the coming weeks.

Nov 18, 2022

"We need to consider that we can not command and control everything during the implementation process. That’s why we need iterations and a realistic approach to explore, learn, and reset tasks." Guest blog by Jennifer A. Infantas, IPP 2021 ⏩ zcu.io/SdRX #PDIA