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    • CID SPEAKER SERIES: Democratizing PDIA knowledge one development practitioner at a time: experience from the online course

    Perkins Room - R-429 4th floor, Rubenstein Building. Harvard Kennedy School

    Speaker: Salimah Samji, Director, Building State Capability Program - Harvard University. About the talk: Salimah will share the learnings from teaching the PDIA (Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation) Methodology to hundreds of practitioners worldwide through the Program's online course. She will describe the "real world" challenges of applying this methodology and share success stories of practitioners worldwide. […]

    24th Annual Global Development Conference

    Harvard Kennedy School - 79, JFK Street

    About the Conference: Our world is rapidly changing. The rise of populism, the migration crisis and the threat of climate change are driving development initiatives to evolve and adapt to these new dynamics. The 24th student organized edition of the annual Global Development Conference will debate the future, and envision a future shaped through shared […]

    CID SPEAKER SERIES: Delivering life saving medical commodities in the developing world: How new technologies and approaches are making supply chains work in low resource settings.

    Harvard Kennedy School (79 JFK St., Cambridge, MA) - Wexner Building 436 (4th floor)
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Jamey Butcher - Executive Vice President, Chemonics About the talk: In January 2016, Chemonics International was awarded the Global Health Supply Chain - Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) program. GHSC-PSM is the largest project ever awarded by USAID, and is tasked with procuring and delivering the HIV AIDS, malaria, reproductive health, maternal and child health and […]

    • Panel Discussion – Women in International Development: Challenges and Opportunities

    Allison Dining Room - Taubman Building 5th floor (T-520), Harvard Kennedy School

    Speakers: Martha Chen - International Coordinator, WIEGO 1997-2017 Isabel Guerrero Pulgar - Regional Vice-President, World Bank; Co-Founder, IMAGO Jacqueline Bhabha - Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University Salimah Samji - Director, CID Building State Capability Program Join the Women in Power Professional Interest Council and the International Development Professional Interest Council for a […]

    CID SPEAKER SERIES: Using and Generating Evidence for Policymaking: Security Interventions in Bogota

    Malkin Penthouse - 4th floor Littauer Building

    Speakers: Daniel Mejia, Secretary of Security of Bogota & Chris Blattman, Professor of Global Conflict Studies, Harris School of Public Policy Moderator: Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard University About the talk: To better understand which security policies are most effective, the Mayor’s office of Bogota is testing and evaluating several […]

    A Conversation with Dr. Salam Fayyad and Prof. Rema Hanna

    Allison Dining Room - Taubman 5th Floor
    • Evidence for Policy Design

    Speakers: Dr. Salam Fayyad, MEI Senior Fellow and Former Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority and Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School; Co-Director of the Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) research program, Center for International Development, Harvard University About the talk: A seminar with Dr. Salam Fayyad, MEI Senior Fellow and Former Prime […]

    Book Launch – Navigation by Judgment: Why and When Top Down Management of Foreign Aid Doesn’t Work

    NYE A - Taubman Building, 5th floor
    • Building State Capability

    Speaker: Dan Honig, Assistant Professor of International Development, Johns Hopkins SAIS; PhD, Harvard Kennedy School 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 […]

    CID SPEAKER SERIES: A Public Address by Dr. Abdirahman Beileh, Minister of Finance of the Federal Republic of Somalia on Somalia’s development opportunities and challenges

    Allison Dining Room - Taubman Building, 5th floor

    Speaker: H.E. Dr. Abdirahman D. Beileh, Minister of Finance, The Federal Republic of Somalia About the Talk: While Somalia has achieved socio-economic progress in the past years, there are many remaining challenges to overcome. The overriding argument is that Somalia is truly unique in both the challenges it poses to the world and the opportunities it provides for national […]

    CID Speaker Series: Preparing for the next pandemic: Whose responsibility is it?

    Allison Dining Room - Taubman Building 5th floor (T-520), Harvard Kennedy School
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Susan Scribner, Director, Preparedness and Response project, DAI About the Talk: In this session, Susan will lead an interactive exercise where participants will identify risks that might contribute to a pandemic, recommend interventions to mitigate the risks, and discuss how different government and non-government actors can contribute to pandemic preparedness and response.  About the Speaker:  Susan […]

    CID SPEAKER SERIES: Challenges of Latin America under the New Normal

    Starr Auditorium - Belfer Building 2nd Floor

    Speaker: Carlos Fernández Valdovinos, Governor of the Central Bank of Paraguay About the Talk: Latin America experienced an average growth of 4.4% between 2004 and 2011, much higher than that observed in the nineties (3%). In large part, this improved performance was the result of a very favorable external situation, reflected in historically high commodity prices […]

    CID SPEAKER SERIES: Preventing Violence in Caracas: A Community-Based, Evidence-Informed Approach

    Malkin Penthouse (4th Floor Littauer Building) - Harvard Kennedy School
    • Speaker Series

    Speakers: Roberto Patino, Founder and CEO, Caracas Mi Convive & Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Development at Harvard University About the talk: Caracas Mi Convive works in the poorest communities of Caracas, Venezuela to prevent violence by building trusting relationships between and among community members. Founder, CEO, and HKS alum Roberto Patino will engage with Thomas […]

    • CID Growth Lab Seminar: Why Can’t *Sri Lanka* Be First (In Software)?

    WEX 102 - Wexner Building, 1st Floor
    • Growth Lab

    Speaker: Sanjiva Weerawarana, Founder, Chairman and Chief Architect of WSO2 About the talk: This talk is Sanjiva Weerawarana's story of returning to Sri Lanka in 2001, starting an open source foundation, starting a business, joining the army and building software of all kinds. Sanjiva lived in the US for 16 years before that (his entire adult life) […]

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