BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Growth Lab - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Growth Lab X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Growth Lab REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20210521T185500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002926Z UID:14971-1623758400-1623762000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:PDIA in Action: Radicalization in France DESCRIPTION:As part of MLD103M\, students at HKS spent 7 weeks working on exploring radicalization in France\, and to help identify ideas and entry points. In this presentation\, the student team and their authorizer will share some of their key takeaways and recommendations from this experience. Presenters: Sasha Mathew\, Imara Salas\, Kishan Shah\, Katie Wesdyk\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School; Raphael Kenigsberg\, Cyber Security Expert at BNP Paribas and Implementing Public Policy executive program alumni. Moderator: Salimah Samji\, Director of Building State Capability. Please register in advance to attend this event. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/pdia-in-action-radicalization-in-france/ LOCATION:Zoom. CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210608T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210608T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20210521T184200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002836Z UID:14965-1623153600-1623157200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:PDIA in Action: Abandoned Infrastructure Projects in Nigeria DESCRIPTION:As part of MLD103M\, students at HKS spent 7 weeks working with the Head of Projects Management and Results Delivery Office\, in the office of the Governor of Plateau State to better understand the number of abandoned infrastructure projects in Nigeria\, and to help identify ideas and entry points. In this presentation\, the student team and their authorizer will share some of their key takeaways and recommendations from this experience. Presenters: Nathalie Gazzaneo\, Tendai Mvuvu\, Rodrigo Tejada\, Matt Weber\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School; David Wuyep\, Head of Projects Management and Results Delivery Office\, in the office of the Governor of Plateau State\, Nigeria and Implementing Public Policy executive program alumni. Moderator: Salimah Samji\, Director of Building State Capability. Please register in advance to attend this event.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/pdia-in-action-abandoned-infrastructure-projects-in-nigeria/ LOCATION:Zoom. CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210518T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210518T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20210510T194600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002858Z UID:14968-1621339200-1621342800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:PDIA in Action: Exploring Trade between Kenya and Canada DESCRIPTION:As part of MLD103M\, Harvard students spent 7 weeks working with the Honorary Consul General to better understand the absence of bilateral trade agreements between Kenya and Canada\, and to help identify ideas and entry points. In this presentation the student team and their authorizer will share some of their key takeaways and recommendations from this experience.Presenters: John Diing\, Mayra Hoyos\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School; Bishal Belbase student at the Harvard School of Public Health; Stephanie Shalkoski\, student at the Harvard Business School; Dr. George Imbenzi\, Honorary Consul General of Kenya to Canada and Implementing Public Policy executive program alumni. Moderator: Salimah Samji\, Director of Building State Capability (BSC). Please register in advance to attend this event.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/pdia-in-action-exploring-trade-between-kenya-and-canada/ LOCATION:Zoom. CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210511T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210511T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20210504T164800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002907Z UID:14969-1620734400-1620738000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:PDIA in Action: Legal Education Reform in Ukraine DESCRIPTION:The supply side of Ukraine’s legal system is inadequate for fulfilling the role and responsibilities of the legal profession contributing to the legal system’s self-perpetuating failure to ensure the rule of law and deliver justice in Ukrainian society. As part of MLD103M\, students at HKS spent 7 weeks working with a Legal specialist to better understand this problem and to help identify ideas and entry points. In this presentation\, the student team and their authorizer will share some of their key takeaways and recommendations from this experience. Presenters: Frederick Tarantino\, Ilhom Aliyev\, Manoj Kumar\, Mike Ramirez\, Yousuf Folathi Alkhoori\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School; Artem Shaipov\, Legal specialist\, USAID New Justice Program and Implementing Public Policy program alumni. Moderator: Salimah Samji\, Director of Building State Capability (BSC). Please register in advance to attend this event.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/pdia-in-action-legal-education-reform-in-ukraine/ LOCATION:Zoom. CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210504T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210504T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20210426T233800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002843Z UID:14966-1620129600-1620133200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:PDIA in Action: Access to Childcare in Burien\, WA DESCRIPTION:  In Burien\, current child-care benefits are limited and restrictive. The people who most need the benefit are not able to afford or access quality childcare leading to broader social and economic impacts on the community. As part of MLD103M\, students at HKS and HGSE spent 7 weeks working with a City Council member to better understand this problem and to help identify ideas and entry points. In this presentation the student team and their authorizer will share some of their key takeaways and recommendations from this experience. Presenters: Crystal Collier\, Doreen King\, and Sasinat Chindapol\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School; Kevin Schilling\, Burien City Council member and Implemeting Public Policy executive program alumni. Moderator: Salimah Samji\, Director of Building State Capability (BSC). Please register in advance to attend this event.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/pdia-in-action-access-to-childcare-in-burien-wa/ LOCATION:Zoom registration information below. CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210427T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20210419T195500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T002916Z UID:14970-1619524800-1619528400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:PDIA in Action: Police and Community Relations in Lancaster\, PA DESCRIPTION:There is a divide between the police department and the community which was highlighted by the events that occurred in Lancaster in 2020 in addition to the overall climate of national tension. As part of the MLD103M course\, students at the Havrard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education spent 7 weeks working with the Director of Neighborhood Engagement for the City of Lancaster and the Chief of Police to better understand this problem and to help identify ideas and entry points. In this presentation\, the student team and their authorizer will share some of their key takeaways and recommendations from this experience. Presenters: Anne Dietterich\, Awab Elmesbah\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School; Amreen Bashir\, Revanth Voothaluru\, Seun Akinfolarin\, students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Milzy Carrasco\, Director of Neighborhood Engagement for the City of Lancaster and Implementing Public Policy executive course alumni. Moderator: Salimah Samji\, Director of Building State Capability (BSC). Please register in advance to attend this event.  URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/pdia-in-action-police-and-community-relations-in-lancaster-pa/ LOCATION:Zoom registration information below. CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210420T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210420T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20210412T203400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175429Z UID:14973-1618920000-1618923600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:PDIA in Action: Tackling Blood Safety in Nigeria DESCRIPTION:The National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) in Nigeria is not the sole blood collecting agency. Hospitals\, clinics and private blood establishments are also able to collect blood donations and transfuse them to patients. Safe blood is still largely unavailable in hospitals and health facilities leading to infections\, disease\, and death. As part of MLD103M\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard School of Public Health spent 7 weeks working with the country head of planning of the NBTS to better understand this problem and to help identify ideas and entry points. In this presentation the student team and their authorizer will share some of their key takeaways and policy recommendations from this experience. Please register in advance to secure your spot at this event. Presenters: Allan Franklin\, Dana Radojevic\, Lauren Truong\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School; Hesham Gaafar\, student at Harvard School of Public Health); Dr. Adaeze Oreh\, Country Head of Planning NBTS\, Nigeria and Implementing Public Policy executive course alumni. Moderator: Salimah Samji\, Director of Building State Capability (BSC). URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/pdia-in-action-tackling-blood-safety-in-nigeria/ LOCATION:Zoom registration information below. CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210413T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210413T130000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20210412T194000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175429Z UID:14972-1618315200-1618318800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:PDIA in Action: Reparations in Asheville\, NC DESCRIPTION:There has been a lack of progress and consensus in designing and implementing reparation initiatives in Asheville since the passing of the reparation resolution in July 2020. As part of BSC’s MLD103M course\, students at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Graduate School of Education spent 7 weeks working with a former Asheville City Councilor to better understand this problem and to help identify ideas and entry points. In this presentation\, the student team will share some of their key takeaways and policy recommendations from this experience. Presenters: Bethany Dill\, Student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Isabel Mejia Fontanot\, Kent Shi\, Kerianne DiBattista\, Students at the Harvard Kennedy School; William Keith Young\, Former Asheville\, NC City Councilor and Alumni of BSC’s Implementing Public Policy Executive Education course. Moderated by Salimah Samji\, Director of Building State Capability (BSC). Please register in advance to secure your spot at this event.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/pdia-in-action-reparations-in-asheville-nc/ LOCATION:Zoom registration information below. CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191120T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20191115T214000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175428Z UID:14812-1574271000-1574276400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:BSC Builds: Action Theatre for Public Policy Challenges & Civic Engagement DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Arianna Mazzeo\, Visiting Professor\, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences \n About the Workshop: Policymakers and citizens are struggling with big structural and complex problems such as climate change\, cultural\, economic and social inequality and the education gap between represented and underrepresented communities. In this workshop you will learn how to identify systemic challenges starting with your personal experience. Then in a group you will act and perform your challenge in a process of co-creation process with open-ended interpretations toward possible outcomes. You will learn how to understand performative behavior and decision-making for public policy challenges embodied by the problems and find outer creative expressions of co-production. Agency\, Responsibility\, and Civic Engagement will be the design principles to guide you in the experiential learning by doing through the body and the mind\, toward a transformation. Come ready to engage and dress comfortably. \n About the Presenter: Arianna introduces innovative design research and experimental pedagogies for social change. Through action theatre and multidisciplinary creative practice\, she mobilizes systemic change to activate new pedagogies\, addressing complex societal challenges and co-learning within underrepresented communities and place. She has worked in Cameroon\, Mexico\, Turkey\, Armenia\, and South Africa on social digital innovation programs and local government policy agenda\, in order to re-design and re-think design education. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/bsc-builds-action-theatre-for-public-policy-challenges-civic-engagement/ LOCATION:Taubman 520 CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T085700 CREATED:20180410T221500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175424Z UID:14808-1523548800-1523554200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch - Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn't Work DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Dan Honig\, Assistant Professor of International Development\, Johns Hopkins SAIS; PhD\, Harvard Kennedy School \n About the talk: Join the CID’s Building State Capability Program and the M-RCBG’s Sustainability Science Program for an interview with Dan Honig\, author of Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work. In his new book\, Honig argues that high-quality implementation of foreign aid programs often requires contextual information that cannot be seen by those in distant headquarters. Tight controls and a focus on reaching pre-set measurable targets often prevent front-line workers from using skill\, local knowledge\, and creativity to solve problems in ways that maximize the impact of foreign aid. Drawing on a novel database of over 14\,000 discrete development projects across nine aid agencies and eight paired case studies of development projects\, Honig concludes that aid agencies will often benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery. This “navigation by judgment” is particularly valuable when environments are unpredictable and when accomplishing an aid program’s goals is hard to accurately measure. \n\nAbout the speaker: Dan Honig is Assistant Professor of International Development and an affiliate of the International Political Economy program. Prof. Honig’s research focuses on the relationship between organizational structure\, management practice\, and performance in developing country governments and organizations that provide foreign aid.  His new book (Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top-Down Control of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work) examines the optimal level of autonomy in foreign aid intervention delivery and the role political authorizing environments and measurement regimes play in circumscribing that autonomy. Prof. Honig has held a variety of positions outside of the academy.  He was special assistant\, then advisor\, to successive Ministers of Finance (Liberia); ran a local nonprofit focused on helping post-conflict youth realize the power of their own ideas to better their lives and communities through agricultural entrepreneurship (East Timor); and has worked for a number of local and international NGOs (e.g. Ashoka in Thailand; Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development in Israel). A proud Detroiter\, Prof. Honig holds an Honors BA from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard’s Kennedy School. \n Sponsored by Matt Andrews\, Bill Clark\, and Jane Mansbridge. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/book-launch-navigation-by-judgment-why-and-when-top-down-management-of-foreign-aid-doesnt-work/ LOCATION:NYE A – Taubman Building\, 5th floor CATEGORIES:Building State Capability END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR