The Voice Inc (TVI) is pleased to welcome Professor Matt Andrews from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to Papua New Guinea (PNG) for a week of public policy dialogues with local leaders. During the past three years, TVI has collaborated with Professor Andrews and his Building State Capability (BSC) team at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, offering their flagship public policy reform program, the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) course. In addition to being a first for Harvard University, Professor Andrews' visit to PNG is also a first for himself. As part of TVI's Local Leadership and Collective Action Program (LLCAP), which assists a network of local leaders working on public policy reform and implementation, Professor Andrews has a packed week of events planned. Tuesday's roundtable discussion on province to national policy implementation will be facilitated by Dr. Eric Kwa, Secretary of the Department of Justice and Attorney General (DJAG), in collaboration with frontline SARV agencies from Kundiawa. After that, Mr. Joe Itaki, Director General of the National Youth Development Authority (NYDA), will conduct a discussion on youth law and policy. The Wau-Waria district office and the Digicel PNG Foundation, which both focus on early literacy, will host Professor Andrews on Wednesday. In addition, Professor Andrews will introduce teams from DJAG, NYDA, and civil society in the third cohort of his renowned PDIA course at TVI. These teams, under the guidance of TVI and the Harvard BSC Team, will finish a demanding yet useful 12-week course. Ms Maliwai Sasingian, Executive Director of TVI, explained that they want their local leaders to access the best mentoring and ideas the world has to offer, hence why they decided to work with the Harvard Team. “Their approach, problem driven iterative adaptation, or PDIA, has proven successful in more than 100 countries around the world and is already showing results here in PNG.” Other significant events during Professor Andrews' visit include the Wednesday evening graduation of TVI's second cohort of Development Leaders, who successfully finished the PDIA course, and a public policy dialogue on the topic of Sorcery Accusation Related Violence (SARV) at the University of Papua New Guinea. TVI is honoured to arrange Professor Andrews' visit and to foster meaningful conversation with its local leaders, who are leading the way in tackling some of the most important problems facing the country. TVI is proud of the work it has been able to do through its PDIA course with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.